Eleven expert trainers focus on the power of the brainspotting technique as a body-brain-based
relational therapy with reference to the most important principles of treatment developed by
David Grand: - dual attunement - the role of grounding and remaining silent - the "no
assumption" and the "uncertainty" principles - the "follow the head of the comet" metaphor
dealing with grief and loss using brainspotting with children and teenagers and with
competitive athletes and performing artists suffering from performance anxiety Use of this
method with complex traumatized patients as well as empirical analysis make it clear why
brainspotting has proved itself to be an effective and patient-friendly approach in trauma
therapy. Its groundbreaking discovery in 2003 by psychoanalyst and trauma expert David Grand
shows how people with severe stress experiences can leave a dysregulation and arrive at a
better self-regulation and how traumatic blockades can dissipate. The yet relatively new method
of trauma therapy uses the previously too little understood abilities of our brain as a
self-referential self-directing and complex system to disperse processing blockades and
thereby activate the body's own self-healing powers. An inspiring required reading for trauma
experts as well as for interested non-professionals and those affected by trauma.
