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• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Understanding How Trauma Leads to PTSD
• The Qualities of the Traumatic Experience
• Big “T” and Little “t” Traumas
• The Role of Neglect
• Post-Traumatic Cognitive Processing and Affect Dysregulation
• The Recovery Environment
• Individual Characteristics
• Appraisal and Meaning
• Spirituality
• Classical Conditioning
• Respondent Conditioning
• Biology and Energy
• The Amplification Circuit
• Adaptive Resolutions
• Maladaptive Resolutions
• Basic Approaches to Treatment: The Consensus View
• Chapter 2 A Neo-Ericksonian Framework for Treating Trauma
• Resource-Based Therapy Orientation
• Solution and Mastery Orientations as Resources
• Well-Formed Outcomes
• The Relationship Between Solutions and Problems
• Building Maps to the Future
• A States of Consciousness Model of Trance and Trauma
• State-Dependent Aspects of Trauma
• Systemic View of Trauma and States of Consciousness
• Solution-Oriented Therapy and a SoC Model
• Principles of Hypnotically Based Therapy: Eliciting, Building, and Linking Resources
• The Utilization Principle
• Dissociation and Its Utilization
• The Narrative Approach
• Integrating Narrative and the SoCs Model
• Framing, Deframing, and Reframing Experience
• Opportunities Are Everywhere, You Just Have to Notice Them
• A Therapy of Action and Interaction in the Real World
• A General Pattern for Treating Trauma
• Chapter 3 The Tools Framework
• The TOTE Model
• Consistently Achieved Goals Require the Use of Different Operations
• Interventions as Assessment and Feedback
• Interventions and Assessments as Agents of Change
• Translating DSM Diagnoses into Action Plans for Change
• An Algorithm for Translating DSM Diagnoses into Action Plans
• The Interaction Between Therapist Skill Base and Personal Response
• From Tools to Art
• Chapter 4 Tools for Safety, Ego Support, and Ego Growth
• Affect Modulation
• Self-Soothing and Self-Care
• The Obvious Is Not So Obvious
• Facilitating Good Use of Breathing
• Creating a Safe Place
• The Problem-Solving List
• “Rainy Day” Letters from the Self
• Submodalities to Reduce Affect
• Creating and Strengthening Boundaries
• Boundaries Are Dynamic and Require Constant Upkeep
• Boundaries Contain Internal States
• Boundaries with Trauma, Abuse, and Neglect
• Symbols of and Suggestions for Containment
• Stabilizing Here-and-Now Reality: Getting Grounded
• Dolan’s 54321 Exercise
• The Use of Peripheral Vision to Stabilize Boundaries
• The Energy Bubble or Shield
• Creating Boundaries Through Externalizing, and Symbolizing
• Putting the Pain Out of the Body and On the Paper
• The Write/Draw, Read, Burn Task
• End State Retraining
• Trouble-Shooting End State Retraining
• Summary
• Chapter 5 Tools for Transforming Traumatic Memory
• PTSD as a Disorder of Memory
• Memory and Healing
• Tools for Processing Memory in Phase 2 of Treatment
• Trauma Reassociative Conditioning
• Step-By-Step Instructions for TRC and Commentary
• Troubleshooting the TRC Process
• Yes, And
• Abreactive Work
• Submodality Work to Manage Affect During Memory Work
• Creating Alternative Memories
• Memory Work and Changes in Cognitions, Schemas, and Beliefs
• Moving from Victim of Others to Author of Creative Choices
• Memory Retrieval Approaches for Traumatic Memories
• Preparing the Patient
• Affect/Somatic Bridge
• Ideomotor Questioning
• A Retrospective Approach to Ideomotor Questioning
• Requests for Therapist Validation
• Memory Distortion, Magnification, and Minimization: Clinical and Political Issues
• An Analysis of the Controversy6
• The Incidence of Repressed and Recovered Memory
• The Incidence of “False” or Distorted Memories
• Memory Distortion for Central Details Versus Peripheral Details
• False Positives Versus False Negatives
• Actual Memory Versus Report of Memory
• True/False Distinctions Versus Degree of Distortion
• Legal Versus Clinical Contexts
• Political Agendas Versus Clinical Concerns
• Clinical Issues
• Therapist Factors
• Presuppositional Stances That Help Avoid Memory Magnification
• Countertransference and Counterreactions That Can Support Memory Magnification and Response Magnification
• Patient Variables
• Possible Motivations/Mechanisms for Clients to Magnify Traumatic Memories
• Warning Flags That Reported Memories May Contain Significant Distortions
• Treatment Strategies to Minimize Type II Errors
• When Clients Know They Have Been Abused
• When Clients Wonder If They Were Abused and Ask to Find Out
• When the Therapist Suspects Abuse as the Etiologic Source of the Complaint
• When Neither Therapist nor Client Focuses on Abuse, but Memories Surface
• Summary
• Chapter 6 The Use of Thought Field Therapy in Treating Trauma
• Embrace the Paradigm Shift (Weirdness)
• A Brief History of TFT and Energy Therapy
• Mechanism of Therapeutic Action
• TFT: A Noncathartic/Non Retraumatizing Method
• The Basic Trauma Protocol
• Psychological Reversals and Blocks to Treatment
• More Advanced Considerations
• Anger and Guilt
• Complex PTSD or Multiple Traumas
• Generalizing of Treatment Effect
• Tuning into and Staying Tuned to the Thought Field
• The APEX Problem (or Cognitive Dissonance)
• When Treatment Does Not Work
• The Basic EFT Protocol3
• Integrating Energy Treatment Within a Broader Therapy Context
• How to Introduce TFT to Patients When You Are Still Learning
• Conclusions
• Chapter 7 Tools for the Holistic Self
• Own and Value the Parts of the Self That Used to Be Disowned and Devalued
• Feelings and Experiences
• Fear, Pain, and Helplessness
• Power, Anger, and Rage
• Sexual Feelings and Fantasies
• Actions and Stories
• Memory and Awareness and the Therapy of “That What Is”
• Be Connected to the Resources That Exist Internally and Externally
• Finding the Current Problem That Is Represented in the Return of the Past: Taking Healthy Action
• The Difference Between Then and Now
• Cultivating Resourcefulness in Therapists and Patients
• Cultivating External Practices
• Cultivating Internal Resourcefulness
• Linking Resourceful SoCs
• Self-Image Thinking
• Solution-Oriented Questioning to Link Resources
• Narrative Questions to Link a Resourceful Plotline
• Identify Social Pressures and Modulate Their Influence on the Person So That the Person Can Choose How to Live Life
• Identity, Identification, and the Locus of Perception
• Externalizing Problems
• Aligning Perceptual Positions
• To Be and to Act in the Present in Manners That Value All Parts
• Violence Begets Violence
• Challenging Dysfunctional Beliefs and Actions
• Acceptance and Forgiveness
• Forgiveness and God
• The Illusion of Disconnection With “All That Is”
• Connection With God as the Ultimate Resource
• Tools for Connection With God
• Feeling Letter to God
• Creating and Nurturing Peak Experiences
• Summary
• Chapter 8 If You Meet the “Tool” on the Road, Leave It! Person-of-the-Therapist Issues
• Therapist as Witness
• When the Therapy Goes Off Course
• Acknowledging Powerlessness (Or, A Person’s Got to Know His Limitations)
• When Therapists Cannot Manage Their Own Affect
• Reasons for Insufficient General Affective Tolerance
• Reasons for Insufficient Specific Affective Tolerance
• The Survivor-Therapist
• Three Tools for Working With the Therapist-Patient Relationship
• The “Countertransference” Question List: A Tool for Checking Yourself
• Some Additional Countertransference Questions to Ask If You Are Working with Dissociative Patients
• A Solution-Oriented Decision Tree Model for Correcting Problems in Treatment
• Solution-Oriented Checklist for Therapist Development
• When Is It Time to Get a Consult or Supervision?
• Summary
• Integration and Summary: Beyond Tools and Trauma
• Epilogue: Tools for Transforming Terrorism
• References
• Index
• Other Resources
• Tools for Mastering Trauma: A Self-Help Audio-Tape Series for Survivors
• Volume 1: Developing Internal Safety and a Safe Place
• Volume 2: Developing Boundaries/The Energy Shield
• Professional Quality Video Demonstration of Trauma Re-association Conditioning with a Vietnam Vet