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often dismayed to find that traumatic events not only shatter their internal sense of well-being, but also leave them withdrawn or isolated.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 ways to make your relationships a context for healing.
| ||||||||||||
Book Description
Frequently Bought Together
Editorial Reviews
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
43 of 48 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Revictimization,
By A Customer
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.
56 of 64 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Sorry I bought this book,
By Peter Thom (Santa Cruz, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Trust After Trauma: A Guide to Relationships for Survivors and Those Who Love Them (Paperback)
This book misses the mark. I am a survivor of trauma with years of recovery behind me. This book takes a tough love approach, constantly reminding the reader of his/her limitations and can't say enough about how those limitations may never be healed to his/her desire. The correlation of survivors to Frankenstein's monster is a pity. I get the analogy, but couldn't the author come up with something other than the truely heinous? I would rather recommend "Legacy of the Heart" by Wayne Miller--a much gentler and realistic approach to healing trust.
30 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Trust After Trauma,
By A Customer
This review is from: Trust After Trauma: A Guide to Relationships for Survivors and Those Who Love Them (Paperback)
I have read this book three times over the last year. Each time gave me new insights into healing the pain of chilhood sexual abuse. The author knows what she is talking about. I found the book very painful to work through, but worth the effort toward healing. My partner found it enlightening. Now he knows some of the issuses I am dealing with.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Inside This Book
(learn more)
First Sentence:
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 Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
secondary wounding experiences, other traumatic reactions, magic rescuer, limited psychic energy, trigger chart, traumatized self, many trauma survivors, traumatized parent, having been traumatized, secondary traumatization, exploitive relationship, trauma issues, perfectionist standards Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, World War, Vietnam War, Journal of Traumatic Stress, Fourth of July, Mount Olympus, Science News, Emerging Concepts, New Harbinger Publications, Rape Survivor, San Francisco, Uncle Tom, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, Anxiety Association of America, Center City, Guilford Press, Second Edition, The Body's Emergency Response New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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 Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
secondary wounding experiences, other traumatic reactions, magic rescuer, limited psychic energy, trigger chart, traumatized self, many trauma survivors, traumatized parent, having been traumatized, secondary traumatization, exploitive relationship, trauma issues, perfectionist standards Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, World War, Vietnam War, Journal of Traumatic Stress, Fourth of July, Mount Olympus, Science News, Emerging Concepts, New Harbinger Publications, Rape Survivor, San Francisco, Uncle Tom, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, Anxiety Association of America, Center City, Guilford Press, Second Edition, The Body's Emergency Response New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Citations (learn more)
This book cites 45
books:
See all 45 books this book cites
12
books
cite this book:
See all 12 books citing this book
- Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror by Judith Herman on 7 pages
- The Courage to Heal - Third Edition - Revised and Expanded: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse by Ellen Bass on 5 pages
- Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy by David D. Burns on page 153, page 160, and Back Matter
- Depression Workbook by Mary Ellen Copeland on page 153, page 161, and Back Matter
- The Psychobiology of Attachment and Separation (Behavioral Biology : An International Series) by Martin Reite on page 128, and page 161
See all 45 books this book cites
- The Addiction Treatment Planner (PracticePlanners) by Robert R. Perkinson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Addictions Treatment Planner, 2nd Edition by Robert R. Perkinson in Back Matter
- I Will Survive: The African-American Guide to Healing from Sexual Assault and Abuse by Lori S. Robinson in Back Matter
- The Depression Workbook: A Guide for Living with Depression and Manic Depression, Second Edition by Mary Ellen Copeland in Back Matter
- The PTSD Workbook: Simple, Effective Techniques for Overcoming Traumatic Stress Symptoms by Mary Beth Williams in Back Matter
See all 12 books citing this book
Books on Related Topics
(learn more)
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
