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  • Healing Developmental Trauma

  • How Early Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image, and the Capacity for Relationship
  • By: Laurence Heller, Aline Lapierre
  • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
  • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (81 ratings)
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Healing Developmental Trauma

By: Laurence Heller,Aline Lapierre
Narrated by: Tom Perkins
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Summary

Explaining that an impaired capacity for connection to self and to others underlies most psychological and many physiological problems, clinicians Laurence Heller, PhD, and Aline LaPierre, PsyD, introduce the NeuroAffective Relational Model™ (NARM), a unified approach to developmental, attachment, and shock trauma that emphasizes working in the present moment. NARM is a somatically based psychotherapy that helps bring into awareness the parts of self that are disorganized and dysfunctional, without making the regressed, dysfunctional elements the primary theme of the therapy. It emphasizes a person's strengths, capacities, resources, and resiliency, and is a powerful tool for working with both nervous system regulation and distortions of identity such as low self-esteem, shame, and chronic self-judgment.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio.

©2012 Laurence Heller, PhD, and Aline LaPierre, PsyD (P)2015 Tantor

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" Healing Developmental Trauma presents a comprehensive exploration of our deepest human urge." (Peter A Levine, PhD, author of In an Unspoken Voice)

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Useful and informative, but heavy going at times.

I found the developmental information very helpful and informative, in terms of thinking about how attachment styles develop and how people develop their presentation, communication and coping styles.
I especially found it interesting and enlightening to learn about addressing trauma not only from the cognitive but also in the body and the nervous system, where the "bottom up" is addressed and not just "top down".
However, it was heavy going a lot of the time and the narration felt monotonous and not very engaging.
It took a lot of discipline to listen to, and probably a lot of drifting off occurred.
I think this audiobook is probably more useful to academics who have a specific interest in this area, maybe from a clinical practice or medical perspective.
I'm not sure whether it suits those who are just looking for accessible information about trauma in general and how to/they can address it.

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Excellent, challenging, engaging.

This challenged my perception of my experiences in therapy. I have always had a dreadful experience even when fully connected and feeling secure with the psychotherapist. The NARM approach says this is because it is 're-traumatizing'; in traditional therapy models I have been told this is necessary in order to get better. NARM goes against that model and creates an effective recovery program for those that are open minded. It would probably suit someone with a background in meditation/prayer/spirituality; but it is not necessary, nor does it require you to have a belief system. I have found listening to this book (which would be different to attending therapy), retraumatising however, so if you are in the throngs of PTSD behavior be mindful that this introduction to NARM may not be for you. Why do I feel this? Because he describes types of adaptive behaviours that are based on childhood neglect. This is mainly intended for therapists. Can be a little convoluted with psychological terms at times because of this, so you just need perseverance if you're not familiar with the specific terminologies, etc. I personally thought it was OK.

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Applicable

Thorough and available information, the study and cases are in type. Work that was well referenced and suitably aimed at higher educated readers but not restricted to professions in psychology.

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Best avoided

Some books, particularly those with lots of lists, just don't work so well as audiobooks. What makes this even more difficult to listen to however is that the narrator puts a great dea of effort into making sure that all of the words are pronounced correctly, but he puts no life into the 'story' at all. Probably a good book, but the narration was putting me to sleep. A dull flat monotone throughout. Like listening to 10 hours of the shipping forecast!

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Resonated deeply, poignant find

What a relief to find this book. For years I've put together scraps of it and finally this puts it all together and explains it all, taking it seriously and validating everything I have already figured out. Definitely going down as one of my most poignant finds!

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Put off by the narator's robot-like voice

I struggled to listen to the audiobook and found the tone monotonous and robot like. With a heavy and complex (and a very interesting) topic like this it is important that the listener stays engaged and on that level it definitely failed. The printed book or kindle might be a better option to use for digesting the information but i would avoid the audiobook.

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Monotonous and repetative

I struggled to finish listening to this book as it was very repetitive and narrator's voice was very monotonous.

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Thought provoking

Interesting approach which brings together humanistic skills such as empathy and intuition with biological knowledge of brain development and function, along with up to date knowledge of attachment and trauma. My only complaint is the rather prescriptive and presumptive links between psychological stress and particular illnesses which to my mind need a firmer evidence base

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Gestalt therapy in disguise?

This IS a good book. It deals well with developmental trauma. Very good examples of therapeutic interactions. Great descriptions of many concepts.
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While the writers have promoted this as NARM therapy it reads to me as a rewrite of Gestalt therapy. Many gestalt concepts have been 'harvested' and presented as NARM concepts; metaphorically the Gestalt 'car' has been stolen, then resprayed and given new licence plates!
Sadly, when the writers very briefly describe other therapies they completely misrepresent Gestalt Therapy describing it as an approach that is about catharsis. Revisit the brilliant theory and highly effective practises of Gestalt Therapy you carjackers!

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mixing proper psychotherapy with mumbo jumbo

I listened to 3 chapters, some of the stuff is ok, but basically a repeat of the therapies already well defined. however it then starts to include all sorts of random stuff as "important".

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