Sensory Pathways to Healing from Trauma

Harnessing the Brain's Capacity for Change

De: Ruth A. Lanius MD PhD, Sherain Harricharan PhD, Breanne E. Kearney MS, Benjamin Pandev-Girard M.Erg, Daniel J. Siegel MD - foreword

Narrado por: Bethany Lanza, Annie Falcone, Booth Daniels, Kenita Hill, Maceo Oliver, Sean Rickard, Diana Woods

This forward-thinking book explores the impact of psychological trauma on the brain's sensory pathways and demonstrates the crucial role sensory-based interventions can play in recovery.

Noted clinical researcher Ruth A. Lanius and associates interweave neurobiological insights with evocative case examples and reflections from survivors, brought to life by multiple narrators. The book shines a spotlight on the brain-body disconnect that is part of the lived experience of trauma, and traces what happens in all eight sensory systems when an individual is under threat. Featuring "Bridging to Practice" sections in each chapter, the book reveals how working with sensory pathways can engage the whole brain, promote neuroplasticity, and optimize the effectiveness of standard psychotherapies. The Foreword is narrated by its author, leading expert Daniel J. Siegel.

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"A comprehensive, useful, and fascinating tour of the impact of trauma on the sensory systems of the brain and what we can do to support the journey to healing these deep developmental wounds. Our tour guides offer not only clear, in-depth, and cutting-edge scientific views into the eight senses that shape our experience of being alive, but also practical clinical steps any therapist can harness to catalyze deep and lasting change toward well-being."—from the Foreword by Daniel. J. Siegel, MD, Executive Director, Mindsight Institute

“This is an amazing book, one that has the potential to challenge and reconfigure central aspects of how we currently provide trauma therapy. Lanius and colleagues integrate their important findings on the dynamic neurobiology of posttraumatic stress disorder and their extensive fMRI research to develop an approach that focuses on critical sensory pathways as a way to facilitate reparative neuroplasticity. And, lest we become too distracted by the science of it all, each chapter includes a ‘Bridging to Practice’ section that allows the clinician to directly apply these insights to the real world of trauma psychotherapy. This is an ambitious, brilliant book that begs to be read, reread, and reflected upon. Very impressive.”—John Briere, PhD, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Emeritus), Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California

"Reading this book is like downloading the mind of one of the greatest neuropsychiatrists of our age to learn about smarter, more effective trauma healing. This rich, revelatory, resonant book offers a profound new paradigm. It is packed with emerging, neuroscience-proven insights. The book explores how trauma slips into our psyches through our bodies and describes safe, accessible ways to harness those same pathways for recovery. The mental health field—and our world as a whole—has never needed Lanius's mind and heart more than we do right now.”—Donna Jackson Nakazawa, author of Girls on the Brink and The Adverse Childhood Experiences Guided Journal