
8 Keys to Brain-Body Balance, 1st Edition
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
9 November 2012
Summary
Understanding how our brains and bodies actually work is a powerful tool in mitigating the anxiety generated by unpleasant physical and emotional symptoms that we all may experience from time to time. Here, Robert Scaer unravels the complexities of the brain-body connection, equipping all those who are in distress with a plausible explanation for how they feel.
Making the science accessible, he outlines the core neurobiological concepts underlying the brain-body interface and explains…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780393707472 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0393707474 |
| Author: | Robert Scaer, Babette Rothschild |
| Publisher: | WW Norton & Co |
| Imprint: | WW Norton & Co |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 9 November 2012 |
| Weight: | 259g |
| Dimensions: | 236mm x 157mm x 15mm |
| Series: | 8 Keys to Mental Health |
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Critics Review
“In his latest comprehensive and accessible book, Robert Scaer has drawn from his deep understanding of neurology, neuroscience, and traumatology to offer the trauma patient practical knowledge for recovery and self-understanding. Presenting his material in a readable and enjoyable way, Scaer empowers his readers through his compassionate wisdom. This book will help anyone wishing to integrate their bodies and brains more effectively and harmoniously.” – Peter Levine, PhD, Director, Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute“This book penetrates the world of neuroscience in a user-friendly, unpretentious yet scholarly manner, highlighting the critical relevance to clinical practice of past and current discoveries about the brain and its malleability. Scaer’s perspective as a neurologist is unique, hopeful, and empathic, and this integrative book will prove an encouraging resource for anyone seeking to understand the effects of trauma on brain and body.” – Pat Ogden, PhD, Founder/Director of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, first author of Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy
About The Author
Robert Scaer
Robert Scaer, MD, a board-certified neurologist with forty years of clinical experience, lives in Louisville, Colorado.
Babette Rothschild, MSW, LCSW, has been a practicing psychotherapist since 1976. Author of 8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery and the best-selling The Body Remembers, and member of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, she gives lectures and professional trainings around the world. She is the editor of Norton’s 8 Keys to Mental Health Series. She lives in Los Angeles.
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