Looking for any trauma related case studies of Body-Oriented Psychotherapy?
Look at this study : http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1933482/
And this one too : https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232501594_A_Pilot_Study_of_Body-Oriented_Group_Psychotherapy_Adapting_Sensorimotor_Psychotherapy_for_the_Group_Treatment_of_Trauma
Article A Pilot Study of Body-Oriented Group Psychotherapy: Adapting...
Have you tried Integrative Body Psychotherapy (IBP) - check out this link they offer a number of resources, I hope it helps!
http://www.ibponline.org/library.php
look for Berselli, he is a bioenergetic psychotherapist. He use a specific metod to release traumatic experiences trough movemet. I also suggest Peter Levine's work of somatic experiencing.
1. My work with children exposed to deprivation (of love) and trauma is derived from my work with thousands of juvenile offenders (kids in placements for violent crimes) where the focus of the work is on the crime and how the adolescent came to commit the crime. The answer to this question is ALWAYS based in his/her affectively re-experiencing a traumatic past that begins during his/her first 3 or 5 years. This is effective work with juvenile offenders who learn how they became violent ... in response to their history. The process of remembering occurs in a therapeutic context (psychotherapy with person(s) who listen with their souls. The effect on the delinquent is a mellowing of attitude that permits mourning of the past and the opportunity of changing his/her attitude in relationship with/to others.
2. With younger children, the psychotherapeutic work is modified because the child has not yet committed a serious crime and is still living in the familial context where he/she is insufficiently loved. The therapeutic gambit here is to bring mom and dad into the therapeutic focus. Parents are usually unlikely to acknowledge their abuse of their children. Over time, however, parents come to acknowledge being tortured when they were children.
3. I do not practice body-oriented psychotherapy. I learned psychodynamic psychotherapy as a resident and child fellow in psychiatry at Michigan (before the orientation there switched to pharmacotherapy). What I do is turn the child's verbalizations of his/her problems (or reasons for getting locked up) into a mystery to investigate with the child/adolescent leading the way. My understanding of the dynamic that resulted in a foul or suicidal attitude is MUCH LESS important than the child's understanding of that process. I have trust in verbal exchange since the meaning of each step in the psychotherapeutic process can be (and hopefully IS) shared.
4. One of my gurus is Bessel van der Kolk MD whose The Body Keeps the Score:Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma Penguin 2014 is a must-read in considering a range of treatments, including psychomotor treatments of persons who suffer from trauma.
5. ISTSS.org is a good place to link with clinicians who work with persons who've experienced trauma.
6. Jonathan Shay MD PhD is a psychiatrist who was drawn to explaining the impact of combat on the souls of combatants. He studied the classics and wrote his dissertation on the Iliad. He worked directly with Vietnam Vets at the Boston VA where the staff had developed a solid model for helping traumatized vets heal themselves. His Achilles in Vietnam; Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character Touchstone 1994. He has a follow-up on the Odyssey. Bottom line, the history of deprivation, trauma, and subsequent violence powerfully explains community violence and war.
7. I'm working on a more detailed essay on what I've learned in helping delinquents. I'm calling it Trauma focused psychotherapy, a way of doing business with troubled children and their families that is highly therapeutic because it keeps clients in the driver's seat of their treatment.
At psychotherapeutic level every case study analysis is different, although there are widespread processes in general, successfully applicable.
The level of psychotherapy focused on psicorporal patient's ego there are several techniques of oriental origin such as relaxation techniques, music, dance, braingym and associative sets of positive imagery, etc ...
Thank you for your helpfull answers. Trained with Peter Levine and Pat Ogden I know some background of somatically informed traumatherapy. Beside regulation work with the Nervous System, or Neurobiological approaches, I am looking for case studies, experiences and research studies with techniques in the field of Somatic Psychology.
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