num_pages: 384
description:  A world-recognized authority and acclaimed mind-body medicine pioneer presents the first evidenced-based program to reverse the psychological and biological damage caused by trauma.In his role as the founder and director of The Center for Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM) the worlds largest and most effective program for healing population-wide trauma Harvard-trained psychiatrist James Gordon has taught a curriculum that has alleviated trauma to populations as diverse as refugees and survivors of war in Bosnia Kosovo Israel Gaza and Syria as well as Native Americans on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota New York city firefighters and their families and members of the U. S. military. Dr. Gordon and his team have also used their work to help middle class professionals stay-at-home mothers inner city children of color White House officials medical students and people struggling with severe emotional and physical illnesses.Transforming Trauma represents the culmination of Dr. Gordons fifty years as a mind-body medicine pioneer and an advocate of integrative approaches to overcoming psychological trauma and stress. Offering inspirational stories eye-opening research and innovative prescriptive support Transforming Trauma makes accessible for the first time the methods that Dr. Gordonwith the help of his faculty of 160 and 6000 trained clinicians educators and community leadershas developed and used to relieve the suffering of hundreds of thousands of adults and children around the world.
language: English
title: The Transformation: Discovering Wholeness and Healing After Trauma
publisher: HarperOne