• Healing Developmental Trauma

  • How Early Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image, and the Capacity for Relationship
  • By: Laurence Heller, Aline Lapierre
  • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
  • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (423 ratings)

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Healing Developmental Trauma

By: Laurence Heller, Aline Lapierre
Narrated by: Tom Perkins
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Explaining that an impaired capacity for connection to self and to others underlies most psychological and many physiological problems, clinicians Laurence Heller, PhD, and Aline LaPierre, PsyD, introduce the NeuroAffective Relational Model™ (NARM), a unified approach to developmental, attachment, and shock trauma that emphasizes working in the present moment. NARM is a somatically based psychotherapy that helps bring into awareness the parts of self that are disorganized and dysfunctional, without making the regressed, dysfunctional elements the primary theme of the therapy. It emphasizes a person's strengths, capacities, resources, and resiliency, and is a powerful tool for working with both nervous system regulation and distortions of identity such as low self-esteem, shame, and chronic self-judgment.

©2012 Laurence Heller, PhD, and Aline LaPierre, PsyD (P)2015 Tantor

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" Healing Developmental Trauma presents a comprehensive exploration of our deepest human urge." (Peter A Levine, PhD, author of In an Unspoken Voice)

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This book is not just regurgitation of popular self help pop psychology

This book is very helpful for anyone wanting to understand and change maladaptive thoughts and behavior caused by developmental trauma. I have read hundreds of healing books over the past 20 years and this one is unique. I highly recommend it.

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very good

super helpful, feel like I went to a great training. great therapeutic tools, really great framework...working with what is, remaining present in here and now, focusing on pacing, honoring defense strategies and reflecting positive changes encouraging more of what we want to see

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Excellent insight into the self-conscious and damaged individuals

This audiobook was an enlightening experience into unexplainable behavioral patterns affecting all areas of my life.

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R-O-B-O-T

while I think this subject matter is amazing and critical - I could not get past the first few minutes of the audible book.

the reasons why I could not get past this are many.

one. the first reason is that the reader sounds like a robot. it is awkward to listen to him listing off items from a chart. two. the textbook has a lot of specific terms which are read in a monotone. this makes it very hard to remember what the beginning of the sentence was intending. three. no more. I can t take it. done. gonna get the hardcopy and read the damn thing. is a shame - this would have been good for my commute

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written like a textbook. read with no personality

awful book to turn into an audiobook. huge waste of money. You can't even tell when the guy is reading headers or charts or what the heck is going on. it's word salad.

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Good detailed material

Most useful for someone interested in or using NARM Therapy in their practice. More theoretical in some places explaining the therapeutic process than I could easily follow and grasp without a broader understanding of the categories and types presented. Some real jewels about physiology and physical effects of developmental trauma on the body and person. Good but requires work.

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A must for therapists!

Very good explanations and examples of characteristics of attachment failures. A must listen for therapists.

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Very Clinical

Not a great listen... The narrator was good, but this is more like a textbook than an enjoyable story. We enjoy authors like Brené Brown and Pema Chodran because they make their reearch into stories. This book is clinical and factual, but not very interesting. If you are a researcher, you may enjoy (and need) this very much… lay people, not so much

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I found this incredibly insightful and descriptive

I particularly value the diverse information about the nervous system and related biology. Thank you.

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In a world of constant transformation, this book is the key to survival.

This book is an instrumental to assist anyone who needs helps understanding the effects of traumatic experiences.

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