Introduction: Feeling and Healing How I Found Mine Tending the Garden of Mind/Body Health The Real and the Unreal ***Psychosemantics Feeling and the Healing System ***Heartbreak Deep Feeling: the Good, Bad, and Ugly ***Jens: Cracking the Shell The Biology of Emotional Integration Internalized Stressors: Who Needs Therapy? Why Body-focused Therapy? I. Getting Sick, Getting Well: Feelings and the Mind/Body Interface The Invisible Factors of Illness and Healing: The Body Follows What Is In the Heart and Mind ***Heart #1 ***Hearts #2 and #3 One System ***Clean Living The Three Brains of Adam and Eve The Biology of Memory Memory and Survival: How Feelings Move or Get Stuck Beyond Memory: The Past is Present Our Dual Nature Body Boundaries The Emotional Spectrum The Emotional Environment Psychoneuroimmunology: the Principles of Mind/Body Integration Let's Get Physical: The Role of an Enzyme-Rich Diet in Emotional Integration ***Edith: Keep Your Colon and Your Heart Clean Bio-logic: the Logic of Catastrophic Thinking ***My Life Is Over Proactive vs. Victim Mentality The Past Is Present, Part II Resistance: Escape From Freedom From Self-image to Self-reflection to Self-realization

II. Inner Fragmentaion: Why We Need Help to Be Whole and Why We Need to Go Back to Move Forward Pain: the Circuit Breaker System ***Neonates Feel Pain Four Worlds, Three Brains Making a Case For Healthy Regression ***From Lizard to Mammal to Human When Inner Worlds Collide The Catastrophic World of Infancy The Primal World of Childhood The Outer-directed World of Youth The Inner-directed World of Maturity Four Polar Processing Styles: A Second Axis of Repression Tension: Bane or Boon? Backwards or Forwards? III. Life Issues: the Universal Backdrop for Therapy Suffering: One For All The Difference Between Suffering and Pain To Be or Not to Be--Is That Really the Question? Lust, Evolution, and Individuation Archetypes: Hard-wired Circuits The Question of Meditation IV. Integration with Feeling: How Body-focused Psychotherapy Works Why People Really Come For Therapy ***Off-balance, Right On! The Boy At the Side of the Road The Metacommunications of Therapy How Long Therapy? Technique and Art In Therapy When and How to Do Core Work Therapy As "Worm Stick" Centropic Integration: My Body-oriented Technique Power Tools For Inner Work The Power of Positive Choices The Course of Therapy: What Recovery Looks Like Couples, Family, Group Therapy Emotional Aikido V. Case Studies and Stories: Therapy in Action Jerry: It All Hurts Ruth: Haunted Inside Jill: Back At You Jona: Hope Does A Body Good Enrico: Heavy Heart, Heavy Blood Rachel: A Good Beginning Esther: Good Analogy Lydia: I'm Not Supposed To Be Here Jason: From Porno to Perfection Jake: I'm Worthy of Feeling Lousy Tracy: Lazy Be, Worker Bee Julie: Confuse and Conquer--Overdrive Pacing to the Rescue! Joseph: Planting a Good Seed Robert: Save Me, Save Me Not Jessica: Slight Error The Power of Positive Loving (and Beware of Positive Thinking) Cindy: Which Came First? Charlene: Who's A Dreamer? Ronald: How Did This Happen? Shelly: Too Shy Jacob: Enough Already Raymond: I Ain't Stupid Eva: No More Punishment Three Stories About My Daughter, Kaia Heinrich: Too Much Pain VI. Post Script Exercises to Challenge Your Status Quo and Help You Lose Your Mind and Come to Your Senses Suggested Reading: Book Reviews Nursing and Nursery Tales True to the Core: Way to Be!

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