Body-trusting Toolkit and MAIA Scale: Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness
Overview of attentional strategies, respiratory work, Reiki, sensory awareness, and other somatic practices.
Rigorous interviews with researchers throughout the world.
Compelling personal narrative threaded throughout with reflections on alcoholism, love and friendship, and interoceptive practices.
By:
Saga Briggs
Foreword by:
Julie Holland
Imprint: Synergetic Press Inc.,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 228mm,
Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781957869100
ISBN 10: 1957869100
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 02 January 2024
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword by Julie Holland, MD xiii Acknowledgments xvii Introduction xix PART 1: PREDICTING THE BODY 1 Predictive Coding 3 Interoception 6 The Bodily Self 10 The Possibility Space 14 PART 2: DISCONNECTION 19 Alexithymia 22 Schizophrenia 24 Stress 27 Loneliness 29 Addiction 30 Anxiety 33 Depression 35 PTSD 37 Eating Disorders 39 Suicidal Ideation 42 PART 3: CONNECTION 45 Authenticity 47 Kama Muta 50 Peak and Transcendent Experiences 54 Nature 59 Body, Emotion, Action 68 Attachment 73 Social Interoception 80 Empathy and Compassion 88 Body Oneness and Movement Synchrony 93 Mindfulness 96 Trust 107 Music 113 Narrative 124 Movement, Yoga, and Reiki 133 Psychedelics 142 PART 4: EXPANDING THE POSSIBILITY SPACE 149 Agency 151 Expansion 154 Transformation 159 PART 5: PRACTICES 163 MAIA Scale: Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness 165 Interoceptive Connection Toolkit 168 Attentional Strategies 168 Flexible Switching 172 Mindful Awareness in Body-Oriented Therapy (MABT) 172 Respiratory Practices 174 Aligning Dimensions of Interoceptive Experience (ADIE) 175 Somatic Practices 175 Social Justice Approaches 177 Practices from This Book 180 Body Trusting Toolkit 181 Glossary 187 Notes 191 Index 213
Saga Briggs is a freelance journalist. Her articles on interoception and psychedelics have been published by Scientific American, Aeon+Psyche, and DoubleBlind Magazine. She is a former editor for the MIND European Foundation for Psychedelic Science and former managing editor of InformED, a digital magazine connecting teachers and students with trends in educational psychology. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, she moved to Berlin in 2018 on a gut feeling and continues to move that way. Julie Holland, MD, is a psychiatrist specializing in psychopharmacology, with a private practice in New York City. Her book Weekends at Bellevue chronicled her nine years running the psychiatric emergency room as an attending physician on the faculty of the New York University School of Medicine. Frequently featured on Today and in CNN's documentary series Weed, Holland is the editor of The Pot Book: A Complete Guide to Cannabis and Ecstasy: The Complete Guide. She is the medical monitor for several clinical research studies on treating post-traumatic stress disorder, one using MDMA-assisted psychotherapy and another examining the effects of various strains of cannabis. Her New York Times bestselling book Moody Bitches has been translated into eleven languages.
