Explains trauma using a mix of the Five Components (from Traditional Chinese language Medicine) and an impression perspective; for practitioners of a variety of modalities, including acupuncturists, somatic therapists, therapeutic massage therapists, and mental wellness providers.

Combining Eastern and Traditional western trauma physiology, clinician-educators Alaine Duncan and Kathy Kain bring in a new map for acupuncturists, doctors, mental wellness providers, and body-oriented clinicians to greatly help restore balance within their patients. Using principles from Acupuncture and Asian Medication (AAM), alongside explanations from the threat response from Western bio-behavioral science, they describe common physical symptoms, psychological presentations, and paths for curing for five survivor ‘types’ comprehensive by the writers and correlated to the Five Components of AAM. This historic/contemporary integrative lens illuminates the different manifestations of traumatic stress in its survivors–chronic discomfort, autoimmune illness, insomnia, metabolic complications, and mental health disorders–and brings new desire to survivors of injury and the ones who treat them.