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As one of many who managed to survive prolonged abuse and neglect throughout childhood by means of various clumsy self-preservation strategies, I’ve read dozens of good, useful, informative books on the subject, all of them helpful. I’ve learned that it is possible to heal the pain and that life can and does get better if you pay attention to your inner reactions and learn to respect your deep, completely justified need for and right to self-love and self-care. I am grateful to all of the researchers, therapists, authors and fellow survivors who have shared their understanding, insights, concepts and methods to help the rest of us on our journey toward bearable, even pleasant, lives.
But of all the books I’ve read on the subject, Pete Walker’s Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving does the absolute BEST job of mapping the recovery process from the survivor’s perspective. I had gained useful knowledge and understanding from Mr. Walker’s website, but this book puts it together in such a clear and orderly perspective that I can now see (and feel) how far I’ve come and, more importantly, which issues I need to tackle next – and how to tackle them -- in order to more fully reclaim my birthright as a human being.
I cannot recommend this book highly enough. It is invaluable for survivors, therapists, and, I believe, for friends and loved ones who want to understand us. It explains us so well. Thank you, Mr. Walker, for writing this.
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72 of 74 people found the following review helpful
This is an excellent support manual for anyone who feels they're not good enough, or anyone who struggles with an inner critic. As a survivor of emotional abuse and bullying, I've read hundreds of books and spent decades in the process of recovering. Even so, I discovered many new insights in reading this book, and found many extremely helpful suggestions for coping with PTSD.
I was especially fascinated with the author's description of "The Look," which my parents used with regularity throughout my life until they passed away, and which never failed to reduce me to feeling like a 4-year-old. I wrote about "The Look" in my memoir, and I really appreciated the author's insight that it can be internalized in just the same way as verbal statements from parents.
The author offers profound insight and a very clear roadmap for coping with the inner critic and the "flashbacks" that PTSD sufferers experience. Well worth the money and the time spent reading.
This book is brilliant, insightful, enlightening, compassionate, validating, nurturing, and very healing. Pete Walker's COMPLEX PTSD, from Surviving to Thriving, is the BEST, by far, of the countless books I have read on the subject of trauma, since my own PTSD was (finally) correctly diagnosed in 2003.
I told my daughter, who was recently accepted into a Master's program to fulfill her dream of becoming a therapist, that Pete Walker's COMPLEX PTSD is my new self-help "bible." I plan to buy several as gifts. The first one will go to my awesome daughter.
Not only has the existence of Complex PTSD been ignorantly denied by many in the psychiatric professions, those of us who suffer with this grievous psychological injury are often misdiagnosed with a wide range of stigmatizing mental illnesses, as Pete Walker discusses in the first chapter of this book. Throughout more than four decades of desperately seeking therapeutic help, I have been given a long list of various psychiatric labels. My childhood trauma and subsequent dissociation was so severe that my initial label, at the age of 14, was schizophrenia. I was given that diagnosis in 1967, more than a decade before Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder was an official psychiatric label.
Numerous doctors and therapists have told me over the years that I was badly misdiagnosed, because I am not at all schizophrenic. Of course I wanted to believe them, because who likes to think that they were ever psychotic? However, through my research in preparation of writing a memoir about my experience, I have come to the conclusion that I was, indeed, schizophrenic for two of my teenage years.Read more ›
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49 of 51 people found the following review helpful
I would highly recommend this book to anyone who thinks they might have complex PTSD (cPTSD) or PTSD. I have gained more insights from this book than I thought it was possible to get from one book. Every page is full of useful information. For me, honestly, this book reads like it is my autobiography. I have been reading self-help books for years but this is my new #1. Not only are there insights into what has caused the cPTSD issues, but there are many tidbits on how to help yourself learn to get out of it. Regarding causes of cPTSD, it is similar to PTSD but also quite different, though of course there is some overlap. PTSD often has some underlying trigger event or events, such as a violent experience involving crime, accident, injury/death or sexual abuse. However cPTSD, focuses more on an underlying childhood full of neglect, abandonment, constant painful criticism from parents, and so on. For anyone who is suffering right now from lack of self-confidence, continually feeling "not good enough," any kind of panic or anger in social situations where you want to hide, run away, or bury yourself into work so much that everyone calls you a workaholic, I would recommend getting this book and reading chapter 8 first. Chapter 8 is "Managing Emotional Flashbacks" and has a great summary of tips on recognizing a flashback and helping you figure out what to do to recover while in one. The ideas about getting rid of both the inner critic (where you criticize yourself) and the outer critic (where you criticize others and push them away) are invaluable. As is the whole book!
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