Articles by Melody Brooke
The Cycle of Compassion: A way out of dissociation and traumatic stress
This is a paper that was presented at the ISSD (International Society for the Study of Dissociation) in 2001. In it therapists are guided to understand the internal and external world of survivors of childhood abuse. Through learning to apply the Cycles of the Heart as proposed here, both the client and the counselor can learn more about themselves and how they relate with the world.
The Logic of Bodywork for Trauma and Dissociation
I presented this paper at the ISSD conference in 2000 and it was published in the Radix Journal in 2001. It describes the logic behind using bodywork to approach trauma resolution.
Recovering from a Loss
In 1990, only three years after my son's death from Sudden Infant Death, my first article was published. It was published first in the Dallas Recovery Magazine (no longer in print). It describes the internal process that must occur to work through grief.
Minimizing the Risk of PTSD
After working wiht many adolescents suffering from PTSD. I wrote and published this article in the 1995 Southwest Morticians Digest.
