The subject of trauma-focused psychotherapy has become increasingly important due to the increased prevalence of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in the NHS. This book introduces a new therapeutic approach, which is based on affective neuroscience and research into the processing of information at a gut, heart and brain level. This book arose from a need to analyze and synthesise the fields of psychotherapy, peak performance and neurobiology. The Art of BART presents a new paradigm in psychotherapy. This is one integrating medicine from the East and West, merging the Chakras with the latest research in the neurobiology of stress and affective neuroscience. The neural networks of the gut brain, heart brain and head brain are activated according to the five stages of BART psychotherapy. Moving on from BART psychotherapy the therapist is guided towards achieving positive change or growth with their clients both psychologically and psychiatrically. The five stages of BART peak performance are outlined. The psychotherapist will benefit from an understanding of the impact of the nervous system on their clients when exposed to dangerous and life threatening situations. Coaches will be informed of ways to help their clients achieve optimal or peak performance in their chosen field of activity. Reviews: ‘Most major advances in scientific and psychotherapeutic thinking have come from one passionately engaged person believing in something new, trying it out, beginning to gather evidence for it, and then sharing it. Arthur O’Malley’s professional career and interests have given him a distinctive viewpoint and perspective in the area of mental health, within a focal aperture, which is still relatively youthful in the psychotherapeutic world. It is a courageous book, as there will no doubt be many in the conflating worlds of neurobiology, psychology, psychiatry, and psychotherapy who, as Iain McGilchrist might well put it, will address this book from their rational, “black or white”, left-brain hemisphere instead of their intuitive, “open to the new”, right one.’ — Peter Eldridge, counsellor, psychotherapist, supervisor, and EMDR therapist, Fleet, Hampshire, UK About the Author: Arthur G. O’Malley has worked as a consultant psychiatrist in the NHS and private sector since 2004, and became an EMDR consultant in 2008. In 2011, he was elected to the fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He has presented widely in the fields of trauma, neglect and the developing brain, attachment disorders, personality disorders, emotional dysregulation in ADHD, and on the diagnosis and management of autism spectrum disorders. With colleagues, he also ran a parent and infant mental health clinic in an adult mental health inpatient ward where he first developed the “Art of BART” therapeutic approach. |