Polyvagal Practices

Deb Dana does an excellent job of translating polyvagal theory into more accessible language, and this book is a good introduction to this approach. The content will be useful for both clinicians and laypersons. I am very frustrated, however, by the small size of the book -- 4.5 inches by 7.25 inches -- and the small font size. The font in the body copy is bad enough, but there are charts and graphics with minuscule type. To make matters worse, there is a colored screen behind the type on most of the pages. This reduces the contrast between the type and the background, and for those of us who have issues with vision, this can make the type more difficult to read. There seems to be a trend in publishing to make books smaller and to use a small font size, and/or a typeface that shows up very lightly on the page. (New Harbinger, a publisher of numerous psychology books, is one of the worst offenders; this book is published by Norton). In order to make this book usable, I enlarged the pages on a copier and will read it that way. Readers shouldn't have to do that!