The particular advantage of this book is - and I assume that this has been retained in full in the new edition - that it enters extensively on the physical effects of traumatic experiences. Dr. Robert Scaer makes us participate in his more than 30 years of experience as medical director of a rehabilitation clinic for victims of road accidents in Oregon and how his understanding of trauma consequences - has developed - and especially how to deal with it is useful therapeutically. Besides, many descriptions flow from his extensive practice with a. For example, I have the phenomenon of dissociation (elimination of perceptions at the time of a traumatic experience) and through him - as he puts it so aptly - the "Dissociative capsule" - conceived. Or how can it be such. As that a person with collision accident at low speed and whiplash may be traumatized, a stuntman with comparable force effects on his body, however, can suffer no harm.
Dr. Robert Scaer can participate in further insights into the trauma issue, for. Example, on the relationship between acute and past traumas, the storage of traumatic experiences in the body memory and its reactivation at the moment additional traumatic experiences us. The numerous practical examples are enlightening and informative. Another important part of the publication are the (scientific) description of biological brain structures, biochemical processes and very specific processes of the nervous system in the human body.
Hear I am to Dr. Robert Scaer by a teaching video series by Dr. Carol Look, EFT Master with practice in New York, as part of my training in EFT acupressure tapping (tapping). There as a bonus DVD of its publication "A Vibrational Approach to Healing Pain and Illness" a very watchable for me lecture with Dr. Robert Scaer was settled. As I recently learned, Dr. Scaer assumes among other well-known colleagues such as Dr. Peter A. Levine and Prof. Dr. Joachim Bauer in August 2014 a European Congress of "body and mind" part.
I am looking forward to the new edition and promise now that I will complete the review as soon as i have read this. My recommendation: If you do not shy away from English-speaking (even scientific) literature back in (trauma) therapeutic range is active - or more generally concerned with the connections between body and soul - can benefit from the study of this book.