bodily procedural trauma memory

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Editorial synthesis · provisional

Definition

Bodily procedural trauma memory names RB2’s account of traumatic experience persisting through sensations or action tendencies, such as flinching or freezing, rather than only a verbal narrative. The proposal records this attributed use without turning a bodily response into proof of a specific trauma, literal storage in a tissue or evidence that a named somatic practice reliably releases an intact hidden memory.

Explanation

The defining paragraph contrasts bodily sensation and procedural reaction with articulated recollection. Its native trauma reference provides provenance for the discussion; this review does not independently certify every clinical extension in the paragraph. The proposed entry identifies the described form of persistence rather than supplying a diagnosis from any isolated physical reaction.

The source also mentions somatic techniques and uses stuck-memory language. Those treatment claims remain source claims, not efficacy findings established here or recommendations to a reader. Nothing in this brief local account warrants inferring that breathing, movement or tapping retrieves an accurate narrative or resolves every trauma-related difficulty.

RB2 separately describes memory as active reconstruction and discusses early relational tendencies without explicit recall. These comparisons keep different forms of embodied persistence distinguishable. They also prevent a present sensation from becoming an evidential shortcut to a unique past event, while retaining the author’s broader concern that psychological distress has bodily dimensions.

Scope and attribution

Retain the bounded attributed concept, exact source wording and native provenance; infer no diagnosis or recovered-memory proof.

RB2 — The Real Book, Volume II: Becoming Is Being

Reported bodily persistence is distinguished from literal storage, historical verification and treatment efficacy.

Occurrence locators: 90.

Background used in the editorial explanation

Procedural trauma persistence is distinguished from general grounding practices and implicit relational patterns; source treatment claims remain attributed.