| View Larger Image | The Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Sourcebook: A Guide to Healing, Recovery, and Growth | Paperbackby Glenn Schiraldi (Author)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | McGraw-Hill | | Edition: | 2nd Edition | | Page Count: | 464 Pages | | Publication Date: | March 05, 2009 | | Sales Rank: | 15,460th |
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The Definitive Resource for Trauma Survivors, Their Loved Ones, and Helpers Trauma can take many forms, from witnessing a violent crime or surviving a natural disaster to living with the effects of abuse, rape, combat, or alcoholism. Deep emotional wounds may seem like they will never heal. However, with The Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Sourcebook, Dr. Glenn Schiraldi offers a remarkable range of treatment alternatives and self-management techniques, showing survivors that the other side of pain is recovery and growth. Live your life more fully-without fear, pain, depression, or self-doubt Identify emotional triggers-and protect yourself from further harm Understand the link between PTSD and addiction-and how to break it Find the best treatments and techniques that are right for you This updated edition covers new information for war veterans and survivors with substance addictions. It also explores mindfulness-based treatments, couples strategies, medical aids, and other important treatment innovations. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 27 reviews)
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Second Edition: For the Clinician by Rodger Garrett (Loma Linda, CA USA)  5 Stars
September 23, 2009
Issued ten years ago, the first edition of Schiraldi's PTSD Sourcebook became (at least over time) the "industry standard" orientation text for new counselors and therapists in the VA Healthcare System. Then, as now, it was both comprehensive and easy to understand.
I wondered (in about 2000 or 2001) why it wasn't used as a complete "patient education" piece, but over time, I came to understand that the VA is =very= conservative about such matters. With good reason, at least in some respects: There was material in the first edition that was surely capable of triggering PTSD symptoms in readers who had not yet progressed far enough in therapy to defend against such triggering.
While not a substantial revision of the original, the second edition does add a number of simplified descriptions of therapeutic techniques as well as mentions here and there of newer efficacy research to support these and previously included methods. That said, the second edition continues to be the single best, mass-market text available for understanding PTSD's causes and conditions, as well as doing something meaningful about it.
With regard to the controversy over triggering, my suggestion is simply that while PTSD sufferers with denser, more primitive ego defenses (e.g.: dissociation, rage, nihilistic depressive orientation) require some work before tackling a book like this, most sufferers - and family members alike - will be hugely rewarded for diving in here. Schiraldi's book is "practical" and "hands-on," as opposed to "heavily neurobiological" or "interactionally theoretical."
This is not Bessel van der Kolk's (wonderful) =Traumatic Stress= or even Matthew Friedman's terrific little =Post-Traumatic and Acute Stress Disorders=. But, as a clinician, I found it (once again) to be a very effective re-orientation toward discussing PTSD and its component issues =with= those who are neither neuropsychologists or theory-soaked experts on interactional traumatization, let alone psychopharmacologists.
Schiraldi neatly distills the whole gamut of topics on nature and nurture, as well as stress and de-stress, into one- and two-syllable verbiage we can use to make sense of it all the same way the =patient= will have to make sense of it.
Do I have issues with the book? Of course. Shiraldi does tend towards the VAHS culture's view that one size fits all here and there. And some clinicians who have not themselves worked through their all-or-nothing orientations may get the idea that the author has covered all of the possible bases. He has not. But if he tried to do so, the book would be impossibly large, as well as needlessly difficult for lay readers.
That's a critique, however, that can be made of nearly any mass market book on such a complex subject. On the whole, this is a valuable and worthwhile read for clinicians and patients alike.
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WOW! What a great resource for PTSD sufferers. by Daniela (Washington, DC) 5 Stars
August 26, 2009
I have been suffering with anxiety, depression and phobias for most of my life. After discovering through therapy that I suffer from PTSD due to growing up with an alcoholic father, I decided to purchase this book. I've been reading through it and it has been helping me learn a lot about PTSD and how to heal from it.
Chapters include:
the basics of PTSD, symptoms that include anxiety and dissociation
Healing, recovery and growth.
Preparing for the recovery process
Managing symptoms
Treatments (including memory work, therapy, hypnosis, healing rituals, resolving guilt, dream mgmt, etc)
The last few chapters are devoted to "moving on", becoming happy and spiritual as well as having a sense of purpose.
If you are a sufferer of PTSD and grew up in an alcoholic or dysfunctional home, I highly recommend this book. This book is great in conjunction with cognitive "talk" therapy with a professional, credible counselor.
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extremely helpful book by Kathy L. Myatt 5 Stars
July 05, 2009
Very practical, thorough and well thought out. I work with combat veterans and felt this book gave me a heads up on several issues that are often overlooked.
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An amazing book by B.Holling (California) 5 Stars
May 15, 2009
I wish this book had been available years ago. I have suffered from PTSD ever since I was 7 years old and witnessed a brutal murder. One of the murderers was a relative and he threatened to kill me and the rest of my family if I ever said a word to anyone. I was so traumatized I lost the ability to speak. That was just the first of a series of traumas in my life. If this book had been available when I was younger it would have helped me to avoid so much pain .... so many mistakes ...
I eventually got some excellent counseling and learned about many of the tools listed in this book. I wrote the story of my life and about all the destructive things I did to try and cope with my pain. It ends with my journey to wholeness and healing. Don't spend your life in grief and pain - there is a lot of help out there if you will only accept it.
Blazie Holling, author of EMOTIONAL TRIANGLE: A True Story of Overcoming Childhood Trauma, Years of Grief, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
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The Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder by T. Smith (Charleston, SC) 5 Stars
May 12, 2009
I found this book to be very informative, easy to read, and comprehend. It contains a multitude of resource information that I feel will be very useful in the future.
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