Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Part One consists of the Introduction and Chapters 1-4
The introduction sets out to engage the reader about the new therapy model as the author explains how the book will unfold.
Chapter 1 introduces narrative approaches to therapy.
Chapter 2 introduces contemporary somatic therapy.
Chapter 3 describes current scientific understandings of developmental trauma and emphasises the importance of including the body to ensure therapy is effective.
Chapter 4 introduces the model, ‘body focused narrative therapy in conversations with survivors of developmental trauma’ and explains how it evolved. It describes how the therapy conversations are scaffolded and provides a metaphorical map to help the therapist better understand and negotiate the therapy conversations.
Part Two consists of Chapters 5-13
Chapter 5 is an in depth case-study of developmental trauma and one person’s uptake of the therapy model.
Chapter 6 makes sense of the Chapter 5 case-study with scientific and therapeutic explanation.
Chapter 7 features the impacts of isolation on the childhood trauma of three individuals.
Chapter 8 provides three case-studies that demonstrate how the body-focused narrative model can help transform emotions.
Chapter 9 engages the reader with the help of three conversational participants. Subtle body aspects in their lives are explored and woven together with a number of narrative approaches.
Chapter 10 shares the experiences of two individuals and introduces the body resource of rocking.
Chapter 11 takes the model into couple therapy showcasing the way aspects of early trauma can harm relationships. Three couples reveal their responses to the new therapy model.
Chapter 12 consists of case-studies with adolescents, children and their families demonstrating a variety of ways the body can be engaged.
At the end of each of the case-studies in Chapters 7-12, the conversation is re-described utilising the metaphor of weaving as introduced in Chapter 4. This helps the reader/student to reflect usefully on what has just been described.
Chapter 13 brings the book to a conclusion describing the main therapeutic and scientific features of the body-focused narrative model. It gives a final participant the opportunity to proffer his commendation of it.
