Built around three simple but emotionally charged scenes, It's Love We Don't Understand looks at a broken family through th eyes of a 15-year-old girl. The first of the three stories plunges straight into a fierce family quarrel. The storyteller, her sister Edie, her brother Axel, and her mother -- with her latest boyfriend -- are driving in a very...more

Illuminates the value of understanding the psychophysiology of trauma for both clinicians and their traumatized clients. Traumatized people hold a memory of that trauma in their brains and bodies. This is the first book to link this phenomenon of somatic memory and the impact of trauma on the body. Reducing the chasm between scientific theory and c...more