Healing Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Clinician's Guide

Book Front Matter

Dedication

Acknowledgments

About the Author

List of Abbreviations

Book Body Matter

Chapter 2 Understanding Your Emotional Map

• - Attachment, Attunement and Mirroring: An Overview
• - Implications of an Insecure Attachment Status
• - Insecure Attachment and Romantic Partnerships
• - Attachment Theory Critique
• - Developmental Trauma and Racial Disparity in the Time of COVID-19
• - Measuring Attachment Status in a Clinical Setting

Chapter 3 Complex Layered Trauma

• Understanding Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• Emergence of Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD)
• Deconstructing C-PTSD
• The Neuroscience of Complex Trauma
• Measuring Trauma in a Clinical Setting

Chapter 4 Dysfunctional Family Systems

• - Dysfunctional Family Systems and Pathological Accommodation
• - Communication Deviance and Behavioral Abnormalities
• - Adverse Childhood Experiences
• - Measuring Adverse Childhood Experiences in a Clinical Setting

Chapter 5 Dissociation

• - Understanding Dissociation
• - Measuring Dissociation in a Clinical Setting
• - Working with Dissociative Clients

Chapter 6 Trauma and the Body

• - Mind-Body Connection
• - The Modulation Model
• - Polyvagal Theory
• - Somatization and Implicit Memory
• - Autoimmune Disorders

Chapter 7 The Power of Belief

• - Core Negative Beliefs
• - Negativity Bias and Confirmation Bias
• - The Bite that Fits the Wound
• - Linking Blocking Beliefs to Memories

Chapter 8 An Overview of Psychotherapy Modalities for the Treatment of Complex Trauma

Chapter 9 Ego State Work and Connecting with the Inner Child