Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, Volume Five by Michael J. Shea Ph.D

Author:Michael J. Shea, Ph.D. [Shea, Michael J., Ph.D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 2013-04-29T16:00:00+00:00

Health Impacts of Past Experiences of Trauma

These statistics demonstrate that there is a relationship between adverse experience and health, but, as Anna Luise Kirkengen, MD, PhD, illuminates in her groundbreaking book The Lived Experience of Violation: How Abused Children Become Unhealthy Adults (2010), the exploration of how such experience, particularly violation and trauma, has been inscribed into the lived body may reveal the meaning the experience has for the individual. Recognition of the lived-body expression of that “incarnate experience” (Kirkengen, 2008) and its meaning may expand opportunities for healing.

Kirkengen reminds us of the value of holding presence with and witnessing an individual’s lived-body expression of traumatic experiences, especially experiences of “shaken embodiment” (Behnke, 2003), no matter when, over their lifetime, the experiences occurred. Kirkengen (2001) explains:

It is thus our task as phenomenologists [I would suggest health and mental health care practitioners as well] to learn to hear the silent sounds of the body passed over in silence, to listen instead of shouting it down—particularly when this body is “mutely testifying” to unspeakable violations that have been “socially silenced.” (as cited in Behnke, 2003, p. 8)

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