| View Larger Image | The Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Relationship: How to Support Your Partner and Keep Your Relationship Healthy | Paperbackby Diane England (Author)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Adams Media | | Page Count: | 288 Pages | | Publication Date: | August 18, 2009 | | Sales Rank: | 261,924st |
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War, physical and sexual abuse, and natural disasters. All crises have one thing in common: Victims often suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and their loved ones suffer right along with them. In this book, couples will learn how to have a healthy relationship, in spite of a stressful and debilitating disorder. They’ll learn how to:Deal with emotions regarding their partner’s PTSD Talk about the traumatic event(s)Communicate about the effects of PTSD to their childrenHandle sexual relations when a PTSD partner has suffered a traumatic sexual eventHelp their partner cope with everyday life issues When someone has gone through a traumatic event in his or her life, he or she needs a partner more than ever. This is the complete guide to keeping the relationship strong and helping both partners recover in happy, healthy ways. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 2 reviews)
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The Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Relationship by Madelyn H. Herndon (Texas)  5 Stars
October 03, 2009
The Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Relatinship helped enhance my understanding of PTSD-something we've heard about so much lately with regard to the military that actually, I thought it only impacted them. But after reading this book, in part because I wanted to know how to be supportive of our returning troops and their loved ones, I now understand that anyone who lives through a traumatic event can develop PTSD. In fact, I came to appreciate why some people in my life had changed after events they experienced that were traumatic for them-and came to wish I'd had this information earlier so that I could have been more supportive. But the good news is, you don't have to have this type of regret. Instead, you can read this book and learn how to support your partner wounded by PTSD so that hopefully, your relationship will be strengthened in unexpected ways vesus harmed by it. Then again, even if you don't have a partner with PTSD, still read this book. Its messages could prove helpful to anyone who wants to be suportive of someone impacted by PTSD. Furthermore, tell everyone you know about this wonderful book with its great case studies that teach skills that could benefit any one of us, actually, since, as Dr. England points out, you never know who might be suffering silently and needlessly.
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A synthesis of two long-separate topics: PTSD & Intimate Relationships by Dr. Carl G. Hindy (Nashua, NH United States) 5 Stars
September 03, 2009
There is a substantial clinical literature on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and certainly there are many clinical as well as popular books about improving marriages. However, Dr. England has written what I see as the first self-help book which brings these two domains together. I think it's an important book for this reason alone, and I believe others will follow now that it's defined. PTSD/Relationship -- it's really more than the sum of the two parts, since we learn a lot about relationships when they're under stress, and about individual struggles when in a family context. We can see how communications get distorted, resentments build, and how both people in a relationship become increasingly different from the "real people" they know themselves to be(and previously liked ... though now less and less). Instead of mirroring back at one another their positive qualities, validating and enhancing one another, they get caught-up in distorted images and senseless, mutually hurtful efforts to "set things straight" that only make matters worse: blaming, attacking, diminishing one another's self-worth, escalating anger, etc.
I think readers will find understanding and comfort in this well-written book, feelings of validations that they very much need. However, they also will find useful tools for working on lasting relationship change. Dr. England includes many useful references and resources as well. I will recommend the book to my clients. Let's convince her to write a workbook as her next undertaking!
Carl Hindy, Ph.D.
Nashua, NH Psychologist, Marriage Counselor
Co-author of "If This Is Love, Why Do I Feel So Insecure?"
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