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Healing Tasks: Psychotherapy with Adult Survivors of Child Abuse (Gestalt Institute of Cleveland Publication)

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Jim Kepner has wrote an easy-to-read, accessible book for any therapist who works with trauma. (I have suggested the book to a number of my clients who have found it quite helpful as well.)

Dr. Kepner looks at the PROCESS of treating trauma, something that seems to be left out of the literature in our modern day rush to overprescribe medications and search for quick fixes. I have found this book and the model he describes in it, to be very helpful as a "road map" of sorts in my own work.

Finally, I have had the great priviledge of being able to study directly with Dr. Kepner. I find him to be highly intelligent, insightful and passionate about the work that he does. Dr. Kepner and his colleague Carol DeSanto have been creating an energetic process of working with trauma that they have called "Nervous System Energy Work". For anyone interested in subtle energy (such as Reiki), I would invite you to learn more about NSEW at Dr. Kepner's website: www.pathwaysforhealing.com.

This book explained the impact of the chidhood abuse and neglect that I experienced and gave me a concrete set of ideas about how to heal. I recommend it to all those who are adult survivors as well as those who work at healing them.