The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal The..., Stephen W. Porges
The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal The..., Stephen W. Porges
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The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory
The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe

Author: Stephen W. Porges

Narrator: Joe Hempel

Unabridged: 7 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/02/2020


Synopsis

When The Polyvagal Theory was published in 2011, it took the therapeutic world by storm, bringing Stephen Porges's insights about the autonomic nervous system to a clinical audience interested in understanding trauma, anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues. The book made accessible to clinicians and other professionals a polyvagal perspective that provided new concepts and insights for understanding human behavior. The perspective placed an emphasis on the important link between psychological experiences and physical manifestations in the body. That book was brilliant but also quite challenging to read for some.

Since publication of that book, Stephen Porges has been urged to make these ideas more accessible and The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory is the result. Constructs and concepts embedded in polyvagal theory are explained conversationally in The Pocket Guide and there is an introductory chapter which discusses the science and the scientific culture in which polyvagal theory was originally developed. Publication of this work enables Stephen Porges to expand the meaning and clinical relevance of this groundbreaking theory.

About Stephen W. Porges

Stephen W. Porges is Distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University, where he directs the Trauma Research Center within the Kinsey Institute. He holds the position of professor of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Maryland. He served as president of both the Society for Psychophysiological Research and the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences and is a former recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Development Award. He has published more than 250 peer-reviewed scientific papers across several disciplines including anaesthesiology, biomedical engineering, critical care medicine, ergonomics, exercise physiology, gerontology, neurology, neuroscience, obstetrics, pediatrics, psychiatry, psychology, psychometrics, space medicine, and substance abuse. In 1994 he proposed the Polyvagal Theory, a theory that links the evolution of the mammalian autonomic nervous system to social behavior and emphasizes the importance of physiological state in the expression of behavioral problems and psychiatric disorders. The theory is leading to innovative treatments based on insights into the mechanisms mediating symptoms observed in several behavioral, psychiatric, and physical disorders. In 2018, Porges received the Pioneer Award from the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Morgan on December 04, 2021

This is the inaugural step of what has become an OBSESSIVE DEEP DIVE into Polyvagal Theory (PT). For those of you who do not know, PT is an evolutionarily grounded, neuroscientific and psychological construct that explains the role of the vagus nerve in mammalian threat response and emotion regulatio......more

Goodreads review by James on February 04, 2019

I think as an objective experience for readability; this book derives a 3 1/2 or 4. There are several editing errors and often repeats itself due to being a collection of transcribed interviews. However, I gave it 5 stars because the information in this book has been profound for me and I believe it......more

Goodreads review by Lance on June 24, 2018

I loved this book so much! It took me at least two months to read because it was so dense, and I literally had to read it with a dictionary next to me at all times. By the end, however, I can definitely say I have an introductory level understanding of the polyvagal theory -- something few of my the......more

Goodreads review by Lynette on March 18, 2018

Essentially a transcript of interviews by Ruth Buczynski and Stephen Porges. A useful book to help understand the very complex Polyvagal Theory but not quite what I expected given the title.......more

Goodreads review by Brian on April 16, 2022

The content of this book is excellent and I learned alot from it especially about the connection between hearing, autism, trauma and emotional regulation. Unfortunately the books is desperately in need of a co-author or editor. The first chapter is an insane painful and dense glossary. The later cha......more