The Enchanted Loom reviews Robert Scaer's book, The Body Bears the Burden

1. The Enchanted Loom
Teasing sturdy threads from
neuroscience masterworks

2. Teasing 10
threads
from
Robert Scaer’s…

3. Thread 1:
Traumatic
“Conversion
reactions” can
show up as
symptoms in
organs or other
parts of the body.
(pg. 79)

4. Thread 2:
Altering the threat
of the unknown by
informing and
educating patients
changes the body’s
stress response and
promotes healing.
(pg. xix)

5. Thread 3:
A child whose
boundaries are
evolving, ebbing
and flowing, with
new life experi-
ences is especially
vulnerable to
traumatic stress.
(pg. 4)

6. Thread 4:
The acceptance by
psychiatrists of
Freudian theory
resulted in almost
total rejection of the
effects of child abuse
and trauma on
character traits and
personality
development.
(pg. 63)

7. Thread 5:
Physical movement
that “discharges the
freeze response”
erases/extinguishes
the memories for
what the body felt,
and tried, and
failed to do for
self-protection.
(pg. 40)

8. Thread 6:
Dissociation can
have emotional,
perceptual,
physical, and/or
memory-related
manifestations.
(pg. 125)

9. Thread 7:
Impaired present-moment perception may
be caused by intrusion of body-based
memories linked to old trauma.
(pg. 91)

10. Thread 8:
A trauma victim’s
sense of self and
developmental
maturity may be
arrested at the
age and time of
the sentinel
trauma
experience.
(pg. 92)

11. Thread 9:
A threatening
experience
that replicates
similar past
trauma is far
more likely
to be
traumatizing.
(pg. 134)

12. Thread 10:
Depending
upon your
trauma
history,
superficially
trivial events
can prove to be
profoundly
traumatizing .
(pg. 193)

13. Image Credits:
Title Page: http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans
Slide 3 - http://www.deviantart.com/art/psychosomatic-531606429
Slide 12 - http://learntogetridof.com/how-to-get-rid-of-bruises/how-to-get-rid-of-bruises-3/
Slide 2 - http://www.eft-and-pranic-healing.com/Trauma.html
Slide 6 - http://www.deviantart.com/art/Zygmunt-Freud-198490783
Slide 5 - http://www.deviantart.com/art/Innocent-108985155
Slide 11 - http://www.totallandscapecare.com/win-prizes-with-dirty-hands/
Slide 10 - http://www.angelfire.com/az/nativebob/malamud_lexapro_1.html
Slide 14 - http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans
Slide 9 - http://pictures2015.mobi/nightmares-new-images/
Slide 8 - http://www.brainline.org/landing_pages/Family.html
Slide 7 - http://www.deviantart.com/art/Self-Protection-393102709
Slide 4 - http://www.deviantart.com/art/Stress-508627648

14. Mark Brady, PhD
TheEnchantedLoom@gmail.com
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