While considered controversial by some, Method acting as popularized by Lee Strasberg is a technique that elicits powerful and authentic results on stage and screen. The foundational Method acting techniques, the Relaxation Exercise (RE) and the…
This chapter addresses the historical trauma of African Americans and barriers to mental health treatment. The focus is on exploration of somatic therapy, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), and Dr David Grand’s neuro-experiential…
Even a skilled EMDR therapist often experiences that the adaptive information processing (AIP) does not go well. Since human existence is multi-layered and open system, so negative factors to consolidate traumatic memories before, during, and…
In Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), cognitive aspects of reprocessing are focused. However, the means of facilitating physical aspects of reprocessing are insufficient, which result in incomplete processing. On the other had,…
The fundamentals of of somatic experiencing will be presented and then contrasted with EMDR. The presentation will end with a brief description of both techniques used.
The following presentation shows a model, which was built and applied with many different populations, children, aged people and adults, during the Lebanon War 2006 and after it. The purpose was prevention of PTSD and overcoming the difficult and…
Combining power therapies which impact different areas of the triune brain increases the power to effect lasting resolution of both the CNS and ANS effects of PTSD. Cases illustrating this will be presented. Some QEEG data and theories indicating…
This workshop wall be an extension and practical application of the principles presented in the plenary session to the practice of EMDR utilizing somatic awareness to facilitate processing and avoid overwhelm and the potential for 'false memory' and…
This workshop will explore EMDR and Somatic Experiencing as different paradigms for trauma resolution. It will then demonstrate that the two modalities overlap in several ways thar can facilitate a powerful integration that enhances the effectiveness…
This is an uncontrolled field study of the outcome effects of a somatically based therapy with tsunami victims in southern India. One hundred and fifty (150) participants, prescreened for trauma symptoms, received 75 minutes of somatic therapy and…
This exploratory study examines the treatment effects of brief (1 to 2 sessions) Somatic Experiencing with 53 adult and child survivors of the 2004 tsunami in Thailand. Somatic Experiencing’s early-intervention model, now called Trauma First Aide,…
EMDR practitioners find their sessions include substantial amount of body processing. While EMDR includes body awareness in the protocol, its potential has not yet been fully explored. Somatic Experiencing (SE), developed by Dr. Peter Levine, offers…
Developed over the past thirty years, "Somatic Experiecing" (SE) has gained increasing recognition as a powerful body-based therapy that can awaken one's innate self-regulative response to overwhelm. Based on a naturalistic understanding of how…
