This book is about what follows the breakdown in functioning, either short or long-term, provoked by a traumatic event. What is distinctive about this book is that its authors offer a psychoanalytical understanding of the meaning of the trauma for an individual, illuminating theory with detailed clinical illustration and case histories.

Widely recommended by therapists, this book, in a new edition, reflects all the latest developments in the field of anxiety treatment.

A Biodynamic Approach to Development from Conception to Birth - This book presents an anatomical overview of the changing form and structure of the human body.

Developed in the late '70s by French osteopath Paul Chauffour, Mechanical Link is a gentle manual therapy that encourages the balance of tensions in the fascial system--that complex web of tissue that interconnects and affects all other body systems.

Rolfing is about integrating the human physical structure through body manipulation. In this text, pictures and personal accounts show how remarkable changes and improvements in body alignment and posture occur after practising this healing art.

Waking the Tiger offers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It views the human animal as a unique being, endowed with an instinctual capacity to heal as well as an intellectual spirit to harness this innate capacity. It asks and answers an intriguing question - why are animals in the wild, though threatened routinely, rarely traumatized? By understanding the dynamics that make wild ani...

Ad Warmerdam DHSc, MSPT, OCS, FAAOMPT, MTC has had extensive post-graduate training in the US and the Netherlands, and over 20 years of clinical experience. This has coalesced into a unique conceptual framework of muscle-joint interaction....

By discovering the essence of universal spirituality, one is better able to develop one's own spiritual knowledge and experience.

The Treatment of External Diseases with Acupuncture and Moxibustion is a clinical manual for the treatment of traumatic injuries, muscle joint problems, dermatological conditions, and postoperative complaints. It has been written by Yan Cui-lan, a well-known acupuncturist specializing in external diseases from Tangshan, Hebei. Dr. Yan has written this book specifically with Western pract...

The author, John Kotsias, is my good friend. I know that he is a linguist, a professor of mathematics, a passionate martial artist, an exceptional practicing humanist. He combines these attributes with an obsessive desire to widen the spectrum of Tai Chi Ch'uan without sacrificing the classical virtues.

In the West people commonly assume that disruptions of the body are the exclusive domain of medical intervention and that disruptions of the mind are to be addressed primarily by psychological inquiry. This work is a discussion on the integration of the principles of TCM and psychosomatics. It develops a dynamic model of health that acknowledges the connection of body and mind.

There is much that is fascinating here. Long-established experiments and conclusions are rubbished and reinterpreted, long-established assumptions and beliefs about emotions are soundly trounced, and generally a good going-over is delivered to the whole field...