Waking Up: Climbing Through the Darkness [Paperback]

Terry L. Wise (Author), Rabbi Harold S. Kushner (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 2003 | ISBN-10: 0934793085 | ISBN-13: 978-0934793087

This compelling narrative of a woman's near-fatal deliberate overdose following the death of her husband provides an emotionally honest road map for using therapy to treat depression and restore hope. Honest, jargon-free, and written from a patient's perspective, this work explores a range of issues underlying depression, including child abuse, loss, long-term care-giving, and bereavement.

Editorial Reviews

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...a breathtakingly honest account...a true testament that child abuse does not end when the touching stops. -- (Prevent Child Abuse America, A. Sid Johnson, President)

...no book has as accurately captured the pace of therapeutic sessions, nor the power of the therapeutic relationship. -- (Columbia University, Barry Farber, Ph.D., Director, Clinical Psychology)

I have recommended Waking Up for the reading list at Harvard Medical School and the faculty at Massachusetts General Hospital. -- (Harvard Medical School, Lyn M. Duncan, MD, Professor)

Waking Up is a brave woman's story which can help those who want to survive. -- (Bernie Siegel, MD, best selling author of Love, Medicine & Miracles)

[Waking Up] will provide both understanding and courage in the quest for the redemptive possibilities of life's meaning. -- (Rabbi Earl E. Grollman, DHL, DD, best selling author of Living When a Loved One Dies)

About the Author

Terry L. Wise has spoken widely about effectively coping with grief, having survived child abuse, a near-fatal suicide attempt, and the loss of a spouse. She lives in Wayland, Massachusetts. Rabbi Harold S. Kushner is the author of "When Bad Things Happen to Good People". He is the Rabbi Laureate of Temple Israel in Natick, Massachusetts.

Product Details

• Paperback: 204 pages
• Publisher: Pathfinder Publishing of CA (December 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0934793085
• ISBN-13: 978-0934793087
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #760,327 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Letter to Terry Wise, May 2, 2005

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Marty Tousley "Marty Tousley, CNS-BC, FT, DCC" (Traverse City MI and Scottsdale AZ USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Waking Up: Climbing Through the Darkness (Paperback)

My dear Terry,
I had the privilege of meeting you during your CMI presentation in Phoenix AZ this past April 4, 2005. I bought a copy of your book that day, and how I wish I would have read it before I met you -- because then I could have told you in person what I thought of it. "Waking Up" is without a doubt one of the most powerful personal accounts of therapy I've ever read. I am astounded at the honesty in your writing, and at the courage it must have taken for you to decide to get it published. What is more astounding is that I don't think you realize what a gift you've given to the world. I wish every student learning to be a therapist would read your book, and every person who's ever been depressed or contemplated suicide, and everyone who's ever been thrust into the role of care giver, and every hospice worker and bereavement counselor who is companioning the bereaved -- and everyone who just wants to read a terrific book. I want you to know that I've told all my hospice colleagues about you, I've added your book to my list of recommended readings on the Articles and Books page of my Grief Healing Web site, and I will do everything in my power to help you spread your important, uplifting, life-saving message. I am honored to have met you, and I wish for you what you are giving to all the rest of us: nothing but the best.
With love and admiration,
Marty Tousley, APRN, BC, CT
Bereavement Counselor
Grief Healing Web site: www.griefhealing.com
Grief Healing Discussion Groups: www.hovforum.ipbhost.com

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You owe me one night worth of sleep Ms. Wise!, January 17, 2004

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This review is from: Waking Up: Climbing Through the Darkness (Paperback)

This touching journey kept me hooked from the first page. It was gripping. The writing really took you inside of this woman's mind and heart. I can see how this book will give hope to those who are at the end of the line. I highly recommend Waking Up. Make sure you clear out some time before you start, because you are never going to be able to put it down!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent account of psychotherapy process, December 22, 2003

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John Kalafat, Ph.D., Past President, American... (Rutgers University) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Waking Up: Climbing Through the Darkness (Paperback)

Waking Up is a powerful description of the intense psychotherapeutic experience of a client struggling to recover from serious losses. This account from the patient's perspective illustrates how a determined and caring therapist helps a struggling, but also determined client to work through childhood abuse, death of a spouse, substance abuse, and suicide crises. In the process, it provides a primer on effective collabortive therapy.