TRAUMA INTEGRATION
IN THE
NEONATAL INTENSIVE
CARE UNIT
A Forthcoming Book
by Zephyr
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Trauma Integration in the Neonatal Intensive Care
Unit promotes collaboration between practitioners of
allopathic medicine and energetic healing arts.
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The heart of this book is a compendium of more than one
hundred vignettes of my sessions with neonates and infants in
the NICU. May they inspire caregivers to envision a new NICU,
one in which the Cartesian mind works hand-in-hand with the
posture of openness toward the unknown. These case studies
provide a reference for practitioners. Toward that end, to many
vignettes, additional commentary has been appended. This may
include reflections on what happened in the session, consideration
of alternative approaches, and related insights of expert practitioners.
Parents and laypersons may wish to focus on the core of the vignette
and to be selective as to the appended material, enjoying what
they find accessible and skipping the more technical.
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Stories from Zephyr's personal experience are juxtaposed with
the babies’ stories. The depth of Zephyr's experience as the
client on the table receiving a craniosacral session illuminates
the value such therapy has for neonates and infants. Zephyr's
journey to integrate their own prenatal and perinatal trauma
illustrates that the experiences, feelings, and expressions of
the adult are the same as those of the neonate and infant,
and that baby and adult have the same
need to be seen and heard.
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