Prologue: Facing Trauma 1
Part 1 The Rediscovery of Trauma
1. Lessons from Vietnam Veterans 7
2. Revolutions in Understanding Mind and Brain 22
3. Looking into the Brain: The Neuroscience Revolution 39
Part 2 This is Your Brain on Trauma
4. Running for Your Life: The Anatomy of Survival 51
5. Body-Brain Connections 74
6. Losing Your Body, Losing Your Self 87
Part 3 The Minds of Children
7. Getting on the Same Wavelength: Attachment and Attunement 105
8. Trapped in Relationships: The Cost of Abuse and Neglect 123
9. What's Love Got to Do With It? 136
10. Developmental Trauma: The Hidden Epidemic 149
Part 4 The Imprint of Trauma
11. Uncovering Secrets: The Problem of Traumatic Memory 171
12. The Unbearable Heaviness of Remembering 184
Part 5 Paths to Recovery
13. Healing From Trauma: Owning Your Self 203
14. Language: Miracle and Tyranny 230
15. Letting Go of the Past: Emdr 248
16. Learning to Inhabit Your Body: Yoga 263
17. Putting the Pieces Together: Self-Leadership 277
18. Filling in the Holes: Creating Structures 296
19. Rewiring the Brain: Neurofeedback 309
20. Finding Your Voice: Communal Rhythms and Theater 330
Epilogue: Choices to Be Made 347
Acknowledgments 357
Appendix: Consensus Proposed Criteria for Developmental Trauma Disorder 359
Resources 363
Further Reading 367
Notes 371
Index 423