Description
What potential does psychotherapy have for mediating the impact of childhood developmental trauma on adult life?
Combining knowledge from trauma-focused work, understandings of the developmental brain and the neurodynamics of psychotherapy, the authors explain how good care and poor care in childhood influence adulthood. They provide scientific background to deepen understanding of childhood developmental trauma. They introduce principles of therapeutic change and how and why mind-body and brain-based approaches are so effective in the treatment of developmental trauma. The book focuses in particular on Pesso Boyden System Psychotherapy (PBSP) which uniquely combines and integrates key processes of mind-body work that can facilitate positive change in adult survivors of childhood maltreatment. Through client stories Petra Winnette and Jonathan Baylin describe the clinical application of PBSP and the underlying neuropsychological concepts upon which it is based.
Working with Traumatic Memories to Heal Adults with Unresolved Childhood Trauma has applications relevant to psychotherapists, psychologists and psychiatrists working with clients who have experienced trauma.
As I delve deeper into PBSP as well as taking a session by a certified therapist, I can clearly see the powerful, healing effects of this therapy. This book provides examples and the interview with Al Pesso provides a chronology of how the therapy was discovered, improved upon and today promises to help people fulfill deficiencies in their lives that lead to healthy living.
Lots of information. Great book!
An immensely valuable contribution to the scarce literature on PBSP! The pioneering work of Albert and Diana Pessos in a brain-based approach to healing developmental emotional deficits and traumas deserves to be acknowledged at the highest levels of contemporary psychotherapy.
This book should not be missed by any specialist in PBSP therapy or body therapy. It might also expand the horizons of those in related matters such as early developmental disorders.
The authors found a way to share complex topics clearly and simply. The book is exciting to read and easy to digest. It will be an inspiration for many. Thanks to Petra and Jonathan for their wonderful work!
Mgr. Jan Sirinek, clinical psychologist and PBSP therapist
I highly recommend Working with Traumatic Memories to Heal Adults with Unresolved Childhood Trauma by Petra Winnette and Jonathan Baylin! If your interest is in the area of trauma work, you will learn how traumatic memories can be changed, the newest findings in brain research, and how new memories reveal possibilities for healing the past and gaining a positive future. The book contains an exciting interview with Al Pesso, the co-founder of Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor (PBSP) that is both illuminating and fascinating. Reading Petra’s PBSP structure is like sitting in the therapy room as she masterfully works. Curt Levang Ph.D. L.P.