Résumé de lecture, chapitre par chapitre — rapporte ce que le livre dit.
THIS DOCUMENT IS NOT A CITATION SOURCE — a reading summary, ungraded.
C'est un résumé de lecture, non coté, qui rapporte ce que le livre dit. Il ne porte aucun poids probant et ne fonde aucune affirmation. Toute citation reste ancrée sur le .txt du livre, jamais sur ce résumé.
Anchored - Deb Dana (2021) (EN)🔬 Built from _dossiers/Anchored - Deb Dana (2021) (EN) — DOSSIER.md (150 candidates of 247).
⚠️ 10 modules of kb/20_Polyvagal cite this book. Nothing here re-verifies them.
| Author | Deb Dana — ⚠️ not Stephen Porges |
| Year | 2021 · Sounds True |
| Volume | 59 013 words · 372 ‰ ✅ |
| Structure | 8 sections detected, most of the book in the head block |
⛔ This is a general-public self-help book, one step further from the research than The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy (2018, same author, already summarised here). Its reader is the person, not the clinician: exercises, second-person address, "you might" throughout.
The inheritance chain is now three links long: research → Porges's theory (which its author calls a framework for organizing information and structuring hypotheses) → Dana's clinical manual → this trade book. ⛔ Nothing gains evidential weight along that chain, and the first link already declines to claim it.
"The "vagal" in Polyvagal Theory refers to the vagus nerve" (probed, 1 occurrence)
Definitional, correct, and the book's useful register: it explains vocabulary.
"Remember, the common experience of moving in and out of states is not a barrier to well-being."
(probed, 1 occurrence)
⚠️ A reassurance, not a finding. Reportable as what the book tells its reader; ungradeable.
"If I only tried harder, worked harder, and paid more attention, I might not be so incompetent"
(probed, 1 occurrence)
The book's rendering of a self-critical inner voice mapped onto an autonomic state. ⛔ The mapping state → story is the method's working assumption, stated as such in the 2018 book; here it is presented to a lay reader without that framing.
Good for: vocabulary made accessible; the phrasing a client is likely to have met; the author's reassurances, reported as reassurances.
| Method | reading dossier + probes — not read in full |
| Dossier | dossier_lecture.py v1.6 · 150 of 247 · 372 ‰ |
| Probes | 3 run · 3 found, 1 occurrence each |
| Quotation check | 3 block + 0 inline = 3, 3/3 verified verbatim after writing (profil N2) |
| Written | 2026-08-25 |