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Finally I don't feel like a lost case, a weird psycho, the only one in the universe suffering from an array of psychological problems that sometimes show for no obvious reason. This book gave me hope which I lacked for years. There's a very long and difficult journey in front of me, but I don't mind.

After reading this book, I know there's 10 stars This is the best and most helpful book I've ever read and reading it was the most encouraging thing I've done in years. After reading this book, I know there's a hope and solution for me. This book changed my life. Highly, highly recommended for everybody with any kind of childhood trauma - and that includes the devastating effects of the invisible, intangible emotional neglect by chronically stressed, distracted and otherwise occupied parents.

Another brilliant and quite unique aspect of the book is the deep insight Pete Walker has in the traumatic origin of pathological narcissism and sociopathy. The way he shows in his empathetic, wise and deeply insightful style that both narc This book changed my life. The way he shows in his empathetic, wise and deeply insightful style that both narcissistic abusers and their co-dependent victims are bred by the same family systems is absolutely brilliant and resonant.

Apr 24, Lisa rated it it was amazing. My experience and my own journey as a survivor of childhood trauma has led me on a quest to find the most effective therapy methods for healing. I have found these clients need more than what traditional therapists frequently offer. For one, the therapeutic relationship is paramount for the success of treatment. And the therapist had better be willing and able to meet the emotional requirements of their C-PTSD clients. Personally, I have done the work needed and continue to heal and grow from my own past.

This self exploration and years of learning how to be my own parent, has helped me help others. I continue to learn from my very amazingly brave clients who trust me to take this journey with them. I admire Pete Walker so much after reading this book. What an awesome therapist and human being! For me this has been an invaluable resource in fully understanding Complex PTSD and in reaching a better understanding of myself, my childhood, and the ways in which I can continue to grow from here.

Have a notebook, pens, sticky notes, highlighters —and possibly tissues — ready. Feb 08, Marie rated it did not like it. I know everything about what it feels like to have a caretaker scream at you and physically assault you. But I am not a monster because my young self chose to emulate them before I even knew what I was doing, and I am not a monster because I hugely struggle to shed the anger now that its purpose has gone.

While reading, I had to constantly remind myself that I was not a bad person and that I was doing the best I can both things are true , but I still felt insulted and shamed. And then it hit me: this book was victimizing me just like my caretakers were.

Diagnoses are not slurs or condamnations; they just mean you present an ensemble of traits that make you fall under a nosologic entity. Feb 26, Frank rated it it was amazing. Most brilliant works on psychology, as regarded by the world, typically from the 20th Century, tend to focus on different theories on human behavior, but they seldom assist individuals on the practical nature of psychotherapy.

This book does the latter. Psychology and psychotherapy are not as foreign as the world has lead the public to believe. Aug 20, Andrea McDowell added it Shelves: , brain-stuff , groundhog-day. I can't rate this--my feelings are too mixed--but here's a short review. So, first things first: C-PTSD is not in the DSM and therefore isn't an official diagnosis, though there are a lot of websites that talk about it and some mental health professionals that claim to?

Whether or not something is in the DSM isn't the be-all and end-all of psychological care as it's a text summarizing current state of thinking on a very fuzzy subject rather than some kind of textbook re I can't rate this--my feelings are too mixed--but here's a short review.

Whether or not something is in the DSM isn't the be-all and end-all of psychological care as it's a text summarizing current state of thinking on a very fuzzy subject rather than some kind of textbook relying on hard science and numbers.

Still, I'd prefer my fuzzy subjects to be as little fuzzy as possible, so I reserve extra skepticism for diagnoses in their pre-DSM days. That said, everything I've ever read about C-PTSD has rung like a bell, and this book has often been recommended to me, and has been on my wish list forever, so I finally got the audio version and listened through.

If anything, I find it even more relatable now. Aspects of coping strategies that I had no understanding of are apparently perfectly typical, and the way he describes the process makes sense eg. If you're looking for a book to make sense of where you are and how you function, I'd recommend the book.

I do have some serious reservations, however: 1. A bunch of the content appears to be available on the author's website. I'd recommend going there and reading what's available and then seeing if you still want to read the book. The book is quite sexist in parts, claiming that a mother's function is love and a father's is protection. The book is written by someone with a fair chunk of privilege, and I can't help but think that this will limit the utility of his advice on healing.

For example, he assumes that healing can happen in adulthood because you leave a dangerous family home for an adulthood where you can make yourself safe due to your greater age, size, and overall power. This is undoubtedly true for straight, white, abled, well-off white dudes like Pete with a caveat or two about the repetition compulsion, as described in the book. But if you are disabled, or if you are low-income and your only employment opportunities expose you to risk, or if you are at constant threat of losing your housing, etc.

On a related but for me more troubling vein, I wonder how our ecological crises will undercut this ideal as well for even the relatively privileged. How safe are we all going to be, really, in the future?

I took refuge in nature myself as often as I could, growing up, and I've wondered often the last many years about what the impacts will be on future generations of abused kids when the outside world and nature are also sources of danger and trauma. Where will people go to be safe and heal? There's not much direction or suggestions about how to heal.

There's some information about the sort of overall healing progression, some ideas of what's associated with each stage, chapters of affirmations, steps to deal with emotional flashbacks, but I think the assumption is that the serious work will be done with a live human professionally or otherwise rather than through this book. If you can get it through a library first, or read articles on the author's website, before deciding to purchase, I'd recommend it. As aside: it was wild to watch my mind dissociating from the content, particularly in the sections about dissociation.

Some anecdote particularly close to my own life would be shared and, zip! Off my mind would go, trapped in some loop or flashback or daydream until five minutes later or more when, wait a minute, what did I miss?

This does mean that there might be more solutions-focused material than I gave the book credit for, though all the dissociation triggers were very much not proposed solutions. I may have to listen to the book again a few more times before I can actually hear the entire thing another reason it's not rated.

Sep 16, Steve Woods rated it it was amazing Shelves: ptsd , recovery , psychology-psychotherapy. This is an outstanding piece of work. Probably the best treatment of Complex PTSD I have read, written in language that anyone can understand and full of material that can be brought into use to effect.

Much of what he outlines here comes from his own personal experience and accords with my own. Many of the approaches he outlines I have had to work out for myself through trial and error and they've worked for me. Am essential companion for anyone dealing with this debilitating illness and for anyone helping them on the way.

Dec 09, Irma rated it it was amazing. This is the single greatest therapeutic resource I have ever read and I wish it was more widely available. I don't know if it's easily accessible to people without a background in therapy or mindfulness, but it will send you a long way to being able to self-soothe, and to understand and reduce your trauma reactions.

I have used the flashback management tips several times, and they have mostly been successful. May 15, Willow Grier rated it it was amazing.

The most helpful and illuminating self-help book I have ever read. I highly recommend this read for anyone who has had a difficult childhood, difficult relationship with their parents, been shamed by organized religion, or who has been abused in a relationship.

Honestly I think everyone should read it as there is something for everyone and the coping strategies are wonderful. Oct 04, Ann rated it it was amazing.

This was a very difficult book to get through, I had to stop several times in order to give myself time to process what I was reading. I am so glad that I found this book! I mean this very literally, I am sure that this book has saved at least one person's life.

Jul 01, ash ng rated it liked it. Overall, this is a useful book that extensively looks at the impacts of childhood trauma with a few caveats. While I agree that childhood trauma plays an important role in the development of certain mental health disorders, the villification of these classifications in the DSM to further assert the validity of CPTSD seems wildly out of line and counterproductive to the goal of patient recovery.

What Walker draws from his experience as a therapist dealing with childhood trauma is genuinely conveyed and useful. View 2 comments. Jun 29, Dina rated it liked it. It's a good book in a sense it gives some useful insights into how much trauma is cased in childhood but man, he writes in so many words that can be said in few. The gist of book goes to down to the fact that our parents relationship to us is fundamental in our development as adults.

Considering that our own parents don't know how to parent or love unconditionally many children grow up intro broken adults and replicate the pattern of brokenness in their own lives.

The author emphasizes ability t It's a good book in a sense it gives some useful insights into how much trauma is cased in childhood but man, he writes in so many words that can be said in few. The author emphasizes ability to feel, to be depressed, to feel anger and to grieve.

Considering that we all hide our emotional issues by either getting too busy, or getting too obsessed or trying to replicate a "perfect" life by achieving conventional success and comparing ourselves to others - this is something to consider.

Do we live lives authentic to ourselves or do we copying and pasting society idea of how a life should be lived. I think majority of people don't even know who they are inside. Jun 02, Andrea rated it really liked it. Walker is amazing for breaking down so many thought processes and physical sensations in a repeated, clear, descriptive way. I didn't always jive with his perspective on traumatizing parents because he has a very black and white "people who caused these problems are terrible and never had anything good to offer" and it's often so much more complicated.

He also has some gender essentializing language and perspectives. But for the most part the tools in this book are incredibly helpful for working Walker is amazing for breaking down so many thought processes and physical sensations in a repeated, clear, descriptive way. But for the most part the tools in this book are incredibly helpful for working through the byproducts of repeated traumatic neglect or abuse.

This will never be a book that I'm truly "finished" reading. I keep it by my bed at all times and have turned to it more than once when I found myself falling into fear or depression. Even if you've never had an official diagnosis of CPTSD which is highly likely, since it still isn't officially recognized by all major mental health organizations if you've ever had a panic attack, experienced social anxiety or depression, or been diagnosed with any other mental health issue, I really recommend This will never be a book that I'm truly "finished" reading.

Even if you've never had an official diagnosis of CPTSD which is highly likely, since it still isn't officially recognized by all major mental health organizations if you've ever had a panic attack, experienced social anxiety or depression, or been diagnosed with any other mental health issue, I really recommend obtaining a copy of this book.

The tools it will equip you with are invaluable; even just the vocabulary it provides for what otherwise may have always been indescribable, provides a huge sense of control over one's symptoms. If you're anything like me, your life will be so altered for the better that your past self will seem like a different person, and I mean that in the best way possible.

For instance, though I found it interesting to read about the different 4F-types, I also know that one cannot categorise people like that. Just make sure that, when you read it, you take it with a grain of salt. Feb 25, Mashiara rated it it was amazing. I recommend this book to everyone whose trauma is at least partially caused by their family of origin.

You will find yourself in this and you will find helpful concepts. For me personally, especially the concept of "emotional flashbacks", that is flashbacks that come without sounds or pictures, just with thre emotions you felt when you were a helpless child was eye-opening. Being able to give them a name, I've been able to pinpoint emotional flashbacks while they're happening and work through th I recommend this book to everyone whose trauma is at least partially caused by their family of origin.

Being able to give them a name, I've been able to pinpoint emotional flashbacks while they're happening and work through them using the flashback management techniques many of which I knew and was using before, but which I can guide more precisely when knowing about the flashback.

This book is a great resource in recovery. Sep 03, Emily rated it liked it Shelves: spicy-memory. There's some good stuff in here, but also, it's limited.

The book is very focused on narcissistic abuse as a source trauma. There is less about neglect and nothing about systemic or cultural trauma. Feb 26, Flyingbroom rated it really liked it. This book is so good! Some of the techniques listed in Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving: A Guide and Map for Recovering from Childhood Trauma may require a sound knowledge of Hypnosis, users are advised to either leave those sections or must have a basic understanding of the subject before practicing them.

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