On the Back of a Horse

Claire Dorotik grew up riding training and loving horses and in many ways understood horses before she understood people. While at the time her equine companions provided her tremendous solace it was not until she entered her graduate program for psychology and suffered her own intense personal trauma that the amazing way in which horses heal people was actually realized.</p>ON THE BACK OF A HORSE: <i>Harnessing The Healing Power Of The Human��� Equine Bond</i> is an entrance into the spiritual world of horses the devastation of raw human trauma and the equine facilitated psychotherapy that can help heal it. Using narrative interviews and case studies of equine experts and psychology researchers the reader is given entrance into the world of equine facilitated psychotherapy and in doing so taken on an epic journey to discover how it is that these magical creatures understand so much more about human trauma than we ourselves do. Using dramatic scenes ON THE BACK OF A HORSE gives the reader an understanding of just how people experience trauma and why. What also emerges is an understanding of what horses do that in many ways prevents them from experiencing trauma as people do. While human fallacies illuminate themselves and the debilitating effects of trauma become evident the reader is bolstered by examples of equine communication bonding and emotional expression providing a beautiful example of just how these amazing creatures can help people overcome trauma.