Announcing "The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma"

A Course with Babette Rothschild, MSW, LCSW

Co-Sponsored by Psychologists of Northwest Arkansas and Arkansas Psychological Association
March 31 & April 1, 2006
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
224 N. East Avenue
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Continuing education credits available.

Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is an indicator that the body and mind have not, yet, recognized that a traumatic incident is over. As a result, the body's nervous system responds by continuously mobilizing the muscles and other systems for defense (fight/flight) and/or numbing (freeze).

Those with PTSD become overly attentive to interoceptive reminders of the past danger, while losing their connection to exteroceptive cues ("the five senses") that appraise the present environment.

Known risks with traumatized clients—dissociation, flashbacks, abreaction, and retraumatization—are, in part, the result of hyper-arousal in the autonomic nervous system.

This course will equip participants with psychophysical theory, principles, and tools for understanding, reducing, containing, and halting traumatic hyper-arousal. It is consistent with and a beneficial adjunct to any method of psychotherapy or specialized trauma therapy (e.g., analytical, dynamic, and somatic approaches, cognitive-behavioral, and EMDR).

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