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Trauma survivors are often dismayed to find that traumatic events not only shatter their internal sense of well-being, but also leave them withdrawn or isolated. In this new book, psychologist Aphrodite Matsakis guides survivors through a process of strengthening existing bonds, building new ones, and ending self-perpetuating cycles of withdrawal and isolation. Step-by-step exercises help you learn how to manage emotions, handle unresolved issues, accept realistic limitations, and find waysto make your relationships a context for healing.
About the Author
Aphrodite Matsakis, Ph.D., is an expert in the field of post-traumatic stress disorder recovery and has written many books on the subject, including the best-sellers I Can't Get Over It and Trust After Trauma. She currently resides in Wheaton, MD, where she treats victims of PTSD in her private therapy practice.
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Those of you who have been in twelve-step programs such as Alcohol Anonymous (AA), Narcotics Anonymous (NA), Overeaters Anonymous (OA), or Al-Anon may be familiar with the fourth step, to take a "fearless and searching" moral inventory of yourself. Read the first page
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Those of you who have been in twelve-step programs such as Alcohol Anonymous (AA), Narcotics Anonymous (NA), Overeaters Anonymous (OA), or Al-Anon may be familiar with the fourth step, to take a "fearless and searching" moral inventory of yourself. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars
An Excellent Resource,
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This review is from: Trust After Trauma: A Guide to Relationships for Survivors and Those Who Love Them (Paperback)
When I saw that this book only had 3.5 stars I felt I had to weigh in. This is an excellent resource for survivors and their loved ones. I found the author's understanding and compassion truly remarkable. Her ability to empathize was so clear in the Frankenstein analogy. It is unfortunate that some found the analogy triggering - but that is the nature of working with trauma, a trigger can be literally anything. she has useful and practical exercises to help identify and manage triggers, and some good encouragement and advice to loved ones.
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Wonderful insight,
This review is from: Trust After Trauma: A Guide to Relationships for Survivors and Those Who Love Them (Paperback)
What insight! I also highly recommend reading Peaceful Heart: A Woman's Journey of Healing, by Aimee Jo Martin....a book that is a true testament to the human spirit and takes the reader thru a client's perspective of getting thru PTSD.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Revictimization,
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This review is from: Trust After Trauma: A Guide to Relationships for Survivors and Those Who Love Them (Paperback)
I have only read portions of this book... and what I've read of it exemplifies a punitive and callous approach to working with trauma survivors. Making an analogy to Frankenstein for a trauma survivor experiencing intimacy/relational difficulties serves to revictimize trauma survivors. Also, I think this book is quite reductionistic... and frankly serves to categorize trauma survivors' diverse relational transactions as "trauma reactions." This unfortunately can be fuel for partners who read this book to label any and all of a trauma survivor's thoughts, opinions, and feelings (especially if slightly intense) to be "trauma reactions." Then, the partner can in essence blame the abuse-surviving parter for relationship difficulties which may have absolutely nothing to do with the trauma. This book can be quite damaging in its simplicity.
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