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Getting Through the Day: Strategies for Adults Hurt as Children [Paperback]

Nancy J. Napier
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Book Description

September 17, 1994

Early abuse can have a profound effect on adult life, especially when survivors struggle with dissociative responses, which range from "trancing out" under stress to the switching of personalities seen in multiples.

This book enables adults who were traumatized as children to learn new strategies to meet the demands of daily living. While focusing on the effects of dissociation and including specific advice for multiples, Nancy Napier presents dozens of exercises helpful to anyone who finds that unresolved childhood feelings are blocking life's path.

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“An insightful, compassionate, practical and readable guide for survivors of hurtful childhoods.” (Gloria Steinem)

“This book provides valuable tools for adults abused as children. The title is too modest. The techniques provided not only help 'get through the day' but also empower the reader to gradually mitigate and eventually overcome the effects of painful past experiences.” (Yvonne M. Dolan, author of Resolving Sexual Abuse)

“Nancy Napier has added to the healing literature for adult survivors of childhood trauma. . . . In reading this book, I continuously thought of how useful it would be to any of my current patients.” (Christine A. Courtois, Ph.D., author of Healing the Incest Wound)

About the Author

Nancy J. Napier is a marriage and family therapist in private practice in New York City. She is a former president of the New York Society for the Study of Multiple Personality and Dissociative Disorders, a board member of the New York Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, and a past board member of the New York Milton H. Erickson Society for Psychotherapy and Hypnosis. She is the author of several books, including Sacred Practices for Conscious Living.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition (September 17, 1994)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0393312429
  • ISBN-13: 978-0393312423
  • Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #250,207 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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34 of 34 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Napier's book has become a security blanket for me! July 13, 1998
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
This book is a must-have for anyone who used dissociative strategies to survive physical, emotional, or sexual abuse as a child; their therapists, and support people. Napier does an outstanding job of explaining what it means to be dissociative, and how to cope with it. She also offers advice for multiple personalities.

A particularly useful chapter covers how to find a therapist and what the therapist-client relationship should be.

I have purchased copies for members of my support family as the book does an excellent job of demystifying dissociation and multiplicity.

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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Real Help When Day-to-Day Living is a Struggle January 22, 2003
Format:Paperback
Sometimes daily life feels like climbing a hill through molasses. Even those who don't have MPD may have inner children (teenagers, pseudo-adults) who seem to be at war with each other, or extreme emotional reactions left over from childhood. This book has a wealth of strategies for soothing those inner selves in the context of the demands of daily living. If that was all, that would be enough for me to recommend this book, because I don't know of another book on the market that deals with practical strategies for daily life in terms of these inner selves (with suggestions for those who do have MPD). But I also appreciate the empathetic tone of the book. Sometimes that kind of tone, however well-meant, can come off as sappy or condescending, but I felt that here it was warm and sincere. I'd also like to recommend two other books: "How to Love Yourself When You Don't Know How" and "Internal Family Systems Therapy." Both are wonderful books about these inner selves and how they function in us. And while they don't deal with the day-to-day struggles and strategies that this book does, they are also resources for exploring the subpersonality issues that affect so many of us.
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32 of 35 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Relief may be found within these pages! February 25, 2001
By Brenda
Format:Paperback
Time and time again, I have come back to this book for grounding. For validation. For understanding. For direction...and it never lets me down. It is true that the author of a book can only... really.... take you as far as he/she has gone themselves! This books leads the way to what all other self-help books should aspire too! Absence of ego and a genuine sense and practical advice on how to move from point A to point B! I can not reccomend this book highly enough! Out of all the other books that I have on the subject...... this one... hands down... is the one that sits upon my night-stand! It is invaluable!!!!!
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
3.0 out of 5 stars It's not as helpful to a solo reader as I expected.
I'm a multiple and I was hoping there would be more in here directed at multiples. More self-help techniques for us that is. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Tara H Snow
5.0 out of 5 stars Getting Through the Day has helped me with many days!
I am very glad that I came across this book, I had a troublesome childhood where I was neglected more than abused and it has helped me get past some things so that I can lead a... Read more
Published 3 months ago by ruthieo54
5.0 out of 5 stars Invaluable book!!
I have owned this book for many years - it is a keeper. I first read it when I entered therapy with symptoms of a dissociative disorder many years ago. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Just Another Survivor
5.0 out of 5 stars Getting Through The Day
I found this book to very helpful in many different ways. It helps those who have panic attacks and need help dealing with them, those with multiple personalities, and those who... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Brittani
5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful book for those who have dealt with trauma...
Regardless of the form of trauma one has experienced, this book serves as a wonderful guide towards coping in a healthy way. I can not recommend it enough. Read more
Published on April 27, 2011 by Caroline Ann Martin
5.0 out of 5 stars Poweful Information
I highly recommend this book. But suggest that you go slowly and have the help of a therapist to go through all the memories and feelings that this book will bring forth. Read more
Published on August 22, 2009 by Terye E. Balogh
5.0 out of 5 stars Thoughtful, thoughtprovoking and helpful are part of how I feel about...
My therapist recommended this as an aid to assist in dealing with the effects of the trauma I had undergone as a child. Read more
Published on February 3, 2007 by Geraldine M. Parker
5.0 out of 5 stars More helpful than the therapists I've been seeing
The title is an eyecatcher, but the book is so much more than just techniques for getting survivors "through the day. Read more
Published on December 5, 2006 by Bette
5.0 out of 5 stars The best thing I read lately
Very helpful, both for the parents and for the children in those hurting situations.
Published on March 16, 2006 by Elisheva
5.0 out of 5 stars Invaluable!!
This book has so many ways of helping you understand what is going on in your life, how to get through the tough times, to discover what is the true cause of adverse reactions and... Read more
Published on December 16, 2003 by Rachel Tatner
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