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The book frames change in terms of the client’s perspective, explores how parts and wholes organize the therapeutic work, and focuses on arousal using concepts such as the autonomic nervous system and the window of tolerance. It addresses the timelessness of trauma, the phenomenological method, and the role of mindfulness, then turns to safety, avoidance, triggers, and phobias.","Trauma Therapy and Clinical Practice:  \nneuroscience, gestalt and the  \nbody  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nTrauma Therapy and  Page iii Clinical Practice: Neuroscience, gestalt and the body  \nMiriam Taylor  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nOpen University Press McGraw-Hill Education  \nMcGraw-Hill House Shoppenhangers Road Maidenhead Berkshire  \nEngland SL6 2QL  \nemail: [enquiries@openup.co.uk](enquiries@openup.co.uk)  \n[world wide web: ](world wide web: www.openup.co.uk)[www.openup.co.uk](world wide web: www.openup.co.uk)  \nand Two Penn Plaza, New York, NY 10121–2289, USA First published 2014  \nCopyright © Miriam Taylor 2014  \nAll rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purpose of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher or a licence from the Copyright Licensing Agency Limited. Details of such licences (for reprographic reproduction) may be obtained from the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd of Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS.  \nA catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library  \nISBN–13: 978–0–33–526309–7 (pb)  \nISBN–10: 0–33–526309–7 (pb)  \neISBN: 978–0–33–526310–3  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data CIP data applied for  \nTypesetting and e-book compilations by RefineCatch Limited, Bungay, Suffolk  \nFictitious names of companies, products, people, characters and/or data that may be used herein (in case studies or in examples) are not intended to represent any real individual, company, product or event.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nPraise for this book  \n“This important book is destined to become a classic in Gestalt therapy literature. Well-written, insightful, compassionate, and practical, it will assist many a therapist, guiding their approach to working with traumatised clients in ways that are up-to-date and well-informed. A great  \ncontribution!”    \nMalcolm Parlett, Visiting Professor of Gestalt Psychotherapy, Page vi  \nUniversity of Derby, UK (now retired)   \n“Miriam Taylor has done a simply tremendous job in articulating an expanded Gestalt approach to trauma treatment that is informed by, and integrated with, modern neurobiological approaches to trauma. Along the way she succinctly presents the general Gestalt phenomenological approach, allowing the reader to absorb our larger psychotherapeutic model as she builds from it her own particular approach to treating trauma clients. Miriam brings Gestalt therapy’s experiential methodology to a clinical dilemma that is so rooted in disturbances of experiencing, while being informed by emerging knowledge about biological processes that maintain these disturbances in the nervous system post-trauma.  \nImportantly, in a field that has too often mistaken techniques of reducing trauma reactions as if they are coherent systems of psychotherapy, her book clearly places trauma treatment in a larger systematic vision of what it means to be a whole person through the lens of the Relational Gestalt psychotherapeutic endeavour. Miriam Taylor does this admirably, and her book shines with humanity. Her dedication, her compassion and caring, her concern for both her clients and also for her fellow therapists in service, and her voice for the restoration of an embodied and vital life for clients in healing, all resonate throughout her text. This book should be read by everyone treating trauma and I expect it to become a foundational text in our field.”  \nJames Kepner, Gestalt therapist and international trainer in Gestalt Body Process Psychotherapy, and author of Body Process: a gestalt approach to working with the body in psychotherapy, and Healing Tasks: psychotherapy with adult survivors of childhood abuse  \n“Taylor ’s book is a theoretically and clinically sophisticated appr","cbCaifl588CgSEZ7","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifl588CgSEZ7","pdf",3310143,1,340,"English","en",105,"# Acknowledgements\n# Introduction\n## Defining trauma\n## Contemporary trauma therapies\n## The traumatized body\n## The application of neuroscience\n## Reductionism and technique\n## Gestalt as a therapy for trauma\n## About the book\n# PART 1\n## Enlarging the field of choice\n# 2 Making change possible\n## Change from the client’s point of view\n## The Paradoxical Theory of Change and trauma\n## Neuroscience, trauma and change\n## Creating the conditions for growth\n## Towards an Integrated Model of Change\n## Summary\n# 3 The organization of parts and wholes\n## A metaphor for the work\n## Orienting to trauma\n## Trauma figure, trauma ground - field, self and other\n## Creative adjustments\n## Polarities, balance and holism\n## Rigidity, chaos and complexity\n## Restructuring the ground\n## Summary\n# 4 Working with arousal\n## Trauma as a problem with arousal\n## Arousal and Gestalt\n## The autonomic nervous system\n## The Window of Tolerance Model\n## Working with arousal\n## Summary\n# 5 There and then, here and now\n## The timelessness of trauma\n## Beyond the here-and-now\n## Differentiating experience\n## Awareness of the here-and-now\n## Awareness and the phenomenological method\n## The role of mindfulness in trauma therapy\n## Summary\n# PART 2\n## At the limits of self\n# 6 From fear to safety\n## Avoidance, triggers and phobias","[{\"question\":\"How does the book connect Gestalt therapy with neuroscience in trauma treatment?\",\"answer\":\"It describes an expanded Gestalt approach to trauma that is informed by modern neurobiological processes involved in post-trauma disturbances in the nervous system. 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