NDLI: Witnessing the Body’s Response to Trauma: Resistance, Ritual, and Nervous System Activation

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Helsel, Philip Browning
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	This essay describes the body’s states of nervous system activation after trauma—focusing on intimate partner violence and sexual assault against women—as signs of resistance and posits that caregivers should attend to these phenomena as the body’s way of communicating. Trauma triggers nervous system responses. and understanding these responses helps caregivers to read the body language of survivors and thus avoid retraumatizing them in pastoral care. Fundamentally, rather than being seen as symptomatic of a disorder, the aftereffects of trauma should be seen as a survivor’s witness to the profound harm experienced as well as to the image of God in the survivor. This approach offers ritual and social ways of addressing this harm.
Starting Page	681
Ending Page	693
Page Count	13
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00312789
Journal	Pastoral Psychology
Volume Number	64
Issue Number	5
e-ISSN	15736679
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2014-10-11
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Trauma Babette rothschild PTSD Peter levine Ritual Nervous system Womanist theology Memory Clinical Psychology Religious Studies Cross Cultural Psychology Sociology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science Religious Studies Social Psychology Applied Psychology

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Witnessing the Body’s Response to Trauma: Resistance, Ritual, and Nervous System Activation