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The Only Girl in the World describes the author's harrowing upbringing by fanatic parents, who raised her in isolation through traumatic disciplinary exercises designed to "eliminate weakness" and recounts how she eventually escaped with the help of an outsider.
"Maude Julien's parents were fanatics who believed it was their sacred duty to turn her into the ultimate survivor--raising her in isolation and subjecting her to endless drills designed...
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Clinical psychologist and anger management expert Steven Stosny offers help to those who have experienced betrayal, deceit, abuse, or infidelity in a relationship. The book includes tips for overcoming betrayal-induced trauma and chronic resentment using a compassionate approach, and also explores less-talked-about betrayals, such as dishonesty, emotional manipulations, deceit and financial betrayal.
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A compelling look at one of the most pressing public health issues of our time.
In this groundbreaking book, Dr. John Liebert, a psychiatrist who has treated hundreds of veterans, and Dr. William Birnes, a New York Times bestselling author, uncover the disturbing truths about post-traumatic stress disorder among veterans. Using scientific, historical, and anecdotal evidence, these two experts reveal why PTSD is on the rise, the threats it poses to...
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"THRIVING AFTER TRAUMA deals with overcoming trauma including physical and sexual abuse, war-related injury, loss due to tragedy or illness, and natural disasters. Real stories and practical tools shed light on how to let go of shame, guilt, anger, and despair after a traumatic experience. It is possible to grieve, move beyond, and fully live again"--
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The bravery displayed by our soldiers at war is commonly recognized. However, often forgotten is the courage required by veterans when they return home and suddenly face reintegration into their families, workplaces, and communities. Authored by three mental health professionals with many years of experience counseling veterans, Courage After Fire provides strategies and techniques for this challenging journey home.
Courage After Fire offers soldiers...
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In this moving and ultimately hopeful meditation on the psychological aftermath of catastrophe, award-winning psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton calls forth his life's work to show us how to cope with the lasting effects and legacy of the COVID-19 pandemic. The result is a thought-provoking examination of life in the face of COVID-19 from one of the most profound thinkers of our time. When the people of Hiroshima experienced the unspeakable horror of...
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"A book for those who have experienced the spiritual trauma of fundamentalist Christianity, in which the author shows how a more authentic faith can be raised from the ashes of disillusionment"--
"We have a right to encounter God where we are. We have a sacred responsibility to experience God authentically." What happens when the God we've been taught to believe in seems powerless to help us in the struggles of life? What do we do when the God we...
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"The scars of sexual trauma exist not only in the mind, but also in the body. Drawing on the powerful mind-body techniques of somatic therapy, therapist Erika Shershun gives readers who've experienced sexual trauma a step-by-step guide to overcoming shame and stigma in the mind, bringing a newly felt sense of safety, awareness, and life to the body"--
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How can an evangelist convert a hardboiled sophisticate? Why does a POW sign a "confession" that he knows is false? How is, a criminal pressured into admitting his guilt? Do the evangelist, the POW's captor, and the policeman, use similar methods to gain their ends? These and other compelling questions are, discussed in this definitive work by William Sargant. Sargant explains and illustrates the basic techniques used by evangelists, psychiatrists,...
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"Drawing on decades of experience, a volunteer firefighter discusses the mental habits that allow firefighters to maintain their sanity in the face of danger and tragedy. Finding analogies with Zen practice, the author shows readers how to apply these same habits to the inevitable difficulties of daily life"--
13) Wellness Warrior Style: A Simple, Peer-Supported Guide to Help First Responders and Veterans Heal
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A Warrior's Roadmap to Healing Trauma
"A book that will save lives and a book about those who save lives."-Belles and Rebelles
Work stress relief-even after retirement-for first responders, veterans, service members, or others. Hear from warriors who credit author Kim Colegrove's first book for saving their lives, and discover proven techniques and peer support to conquer long term effects of stress and restore your well-being as a resilient...
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War and PTSD are on the public's mind as news stories regularly describe insurgency attacks in Iraq and paint grim portraits of the lives of returning soldiers afflicted with PTSD. These vets have recurrent nightmares and problems with intimacy, can't sustain jobs or relationships, and won't leave home, imagining "the enemy" is everywhere. Dr. Edward Tick has spent decades developing healing techniques so effective that clinicians, clergy, spiritual...
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Grounded in the latest research, Trauma-Focused ACT presents a highly effective, comprehensive, and trauma-informed treatment guide.
If you treat clients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or other trauma-related disorders, you need a flexible protocol that also addresses the common symptoms among comorbid conditions. In Trauma-Focused ACT, renowned acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) trainer Russ Harris offers a new and innovative ACT-based...
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The chances of service members developing PTSD after military-related traumas is, according to a U.S. study, at least 30 percent. The effects of PTSD can be devastating, ranging, for example, from distressing flashbacks, nightmares, sleep disorders, physical symptoms, irritability, aggressions, memory and concentration problems. These symptoms often cause severe impairment in all areas of life and may lead to despair and hopelessness. PTSD is neither...
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Current research in the field of trauma has alerted us to how deeply embedded truama is in the physical body cells and how it runs the individual's life from below the floorboards, in the unconscious. Spontaneous sandplay is powerful in making conscious, the unconscious in a manner that is compassionate, soulful and transforming but it can take extended periods of time. This book elucidates directed sandplay sequences that are concise, focused and...
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In this groundbreaking new book, David Wood examines the far more pervasive yet less understood experience of those we send to war: moral injury, the violation of our fundamental values of right and wrong that so often occurs in the impossible moral dilemmas of modern conflict. Impeccably researched and deeply personal, What Have We Done is a compassionate, finely drawn study of modern war and those caught up in it. It is a call to acknowledge our...
19) Chaos and Ash
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Chaos and Ash records one consultant's views from the inside of some of the largest critical incidents over the past twenty-five years-many front page headliners, that stand out in the nation's memory. From 1987 to 2012 Kendall Johnson served as traumatic stress consultant to emergency service agencies and the military. He has driven into remote locations in both wildland and urban emergencies, convoyed through fire lines, has been airlifted into...
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