This is a comprehensive book about psychological trauma and its healing. In six chapters the autor cover different areas of emotional trauma. Chapter 1. The Advernture of Building our Ideas of the Self. Chapter 2. The Construction of Human Mind: How Interpersonal Bonds Model Brain Architecture. Chapter 3, Integrating the Personality and the Internal Community of the Self. Chapter 4, Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma. Chapter 5, From the Interpersonal to the Intrapersonal to arrive at the Transpersonal. Chapter 6, Neuroprocessing of Traumatic Memories with Brainspotting. A Therapy based on the Brain. In this book Mario C. Salvador intends to illustrate the long journey that takes us from our essentially kind and pure nature to build our egoic identity related to the experiences we live, the environments in which we develop and educate ourselves and the influences to which we are subjected throughout the period of our lives. He exposes how we are giving shape to our ideas of the self in order to, in the best of cases, return to become reacquainted with our core Self, or the essence of our identity; that which calls out from deep within each one of us to be released, to find our own individual meaning of life.
Throughout the book the author explains both, the process of constructing the ideas of the self and the way to heal the wounds attached to our sense of self, to clarify the vision of our genuine identity accurately and more intrinsically, and to reach a core self. From this point, we can manage our existence and see our experiences as the water that reflects our essential nature, and also employ the device of the self as a useful tool to direct our lives.
For Mario, healing our pain and overcoming our difficulties is the way to recognize the compassionate nature that belongs to us as humans, so we can awake to a more vital and peaceful perception of life.
"In this book, clinical psychologist Mario C. Salvador has really made an ambitious project. In essence, it presents us with the evolution, the current and future state of the art of psychotherapy. Mario considers in this book both the science and the art of the healing relationship. Embracing the uncertainty principle, he recognizes that ultimately the brain-body-self healing will always be an elusive mystery that challenges clinicians.This book is a fundamental contribution offering the basic principles that underlie each therapy approach and each therapeutic relationship."
--David Grand, PhD, Developer and trainer of Brainspotting
"The examples and clarity of presenting BSP should have this book required reading for all trainings I am surprised how rich and clear it is. Nothing else is out there at this time showing people what the in and out of BSP is. Thank you so much. I love how you come at it from a teaching and explaining what you are thinkng". Cynthia Schwartzberg, LCSW, Certified Brainspotting Therapist/Consultant/Trainer
Founder and Advisory Board Member Southeast Brainspotting Institute
David Grand: "This book should be in the library of every Brainspotting therapist!"