The Tao of Trauma: A Practitioner’s Information for Integrating 5 Component Concept and Trauma Remedy

Explains trauma utilizing a mixture of the 5 Components (from Conventional Chinese language Drugs) and a contact perspective; for practitioners of quite a lot of modalities, together with acupuncturists, somatic therapists, therapeutic massage therapists, and psychological well being suppliers.

Combining Jap and Western trauma physiology, clinician-educators Alaine Duncan and Kathy Kain introduce a brand new map for acupuncturists, medical practitioners, psychological well being suppliers, and body-oriented clinicians to assist restore stability of their sufferers. Utilizing ideas from Acupuncture and Asian Drugs (AAM), alongside descriptions of the menace response from Western bio-behavioral science, they describe widespread bodily signs, emotional shows, and paths for therapeutic for 5 survivor “varieties” detailed by the authors and correlated to the 5 Components of AAM. This historical/fashionable integrative lens illuminates the varied manifestations of traumatic stress in its survivors–chronic ache, autoimmune sickness, insomnia, metabolic issues, and psychological well being disorders–and brings new hope to survivors of trauma and people who deal with them.