Victims of Cruelty
Subtitle: Somatic Psychotherapy in the Healing of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Contributors: Peter Levine (Foreword)
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: November 22, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781556433535
Subjects: Psychotherapy; Psychotherapy - General; Post-traumatic stress disorder; Psychology; Torture; Psychopathology - General; Body, Mind & Spirit / Mental & Spiritual Healing; Self-Help / Death, Grief, Bereavement; Mind and body therapies; Bioenergetic psychotherapy; Treatment
First sentence: Shock trauma, originally defined by Freud as a breaching of the protective stimulus barrier, can be differentiated from developmental trauma.