Condensed Table of Contents

Preface

 

Introduction

 

PART I -- TRAUMATIZATION

 

Chapter 1 – THE MEANING OF TRAUMA

• What Does Trauma Mean?​

• Personalizing Trauma​

• Developing A Trauma Disorder (Or Not)​

 

Chapter 2 –THE SCIENCE OF TRAUMA

• Survival as an Internal Traumatizing Agent​

• Brain Under the Trauma Lens​

• Traumatizing Agents

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Chapter 3 – SEARCHING FOR SAFETY

• Preventive Mechanisms​

• Protective Mechanisms​

• Assessing Trauma Disorders​

 

Chapter 4 – THE SYSTEMIC COST OF TRAUMATIZATION

• Introducing Trauma Domains

• Trauma Domain #1: Emotions​

• Trauma Domain #2: Dysregulation​

• Trauma Domain #3: Memory​

• Trauma Domain #4: Cognition & Perception​

• Trauma Domain #5: Self​

 

PART II – THE AFTERMATH

 

Chapter 5 –IDENTIFIABLE TRAUMATIZATION

• Date-Rape: Michaela’s ‘Trauma’

• Shame as An Internal Traumatizing Agent​

• Developing PTSD​

• PTSD As The Framework For Diagnosing All Trauma Disorders​

 

Chapter 6 - PROLONGED TRAUMATIZATION 

Guys: Michaela’s Romances

• Stress as an Internal Traumatizing Agent​

• Trauma Domain #6: Dissociation​

• Abuse as Traumatizing Agent​

• Developing Complex Trauma​

• Assessing & Diagnosing C-PTSD​

 

Chapter 7: TRAUMATIZATION DURING DEVELOPMENT

• The Babysitter: Mendo’s Trauma

• Trauma Domain #7: Brain Development​

• Neglect & Adversity as External Traumatizing Agents​

• Conceptualizing Traumatization During Development​

 

Chapter 8: TRAUMATIZATION BY FAILING TO ATTACH

• The Mother: Clara’s ‘Trauma.’

• Trauma Domain #8: Attachment​

• Rejection Within the Attachment Relationship as External Traumatizing Agent​

• The Unspoken Pain of Unresolved Attachment​

 

Chapter 9 - SOCIETAL TRAUMATIZATION 

• Kin: Michaela’s Ancestry

• Systemic Adversity as an External Traumatizing Agent​

• Trauma Domain #9: Identity & Personality (Within the Frame of Systemic Adversity)​

• Aggregated Traumatization​

 

PART III – HEALING TRAUMATIZATION

 

Chapter 10 – SYSTEMIC TRAUMA HEALING 

• A Systemic Approach to Healing Traumatization​

• Living Mode​

• Multidimensional Dynamic Trauma Treatment​

 

Epilogue