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Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation Paperback – Illustrated, 8 March 2017
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Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors integrates a neurobiologically informed understanding of trauma, dissociation, and attachment with a practical approach to treatment, all communicated in straightforward language accessible to both client and therapist. Readers will be exposed to a model that emphasizes "resolution"―a transformation in the relationship to one’s self, replacing shame, self-loathing, and assumptions of guilt with compassionate acceptance. Its unique interventions have been adapted from a number of cutting-edge therapeutic approaches, including Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems, mindfulness-based therapies, and clinical hypnosis. Readers will close the pages of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors with a solid grasp of therapeutic approaches to traumatic attachment, working with undiagnosed dissociative symptoms and disorders, integrating "right brain-to-right brain" treatment methods, and much more. Most of all, they will come away with tools for helping clients create an internal sense of safety and compassionate connection to even their most dis-owned selves.
- Print length292 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication date8 March 2017
- Dimensions15.24 x 1.68 x 22.86 cm
- ISBN-109780415708234
- ISBN-13978-0415708234
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"This beautifully written, sensitive volume on how to treat the clients that many deem hopeless is a must read for those working with trauma. It will take you to new places and enable you to reach for your clients and find them when they cannot find themselves. Enjoy!"
Sue Johnson, PhD, professor, researcher, and author of Love Sense: The Revolutionary New Science of Romantic Relationships
"Written by one of the preeminent experts in the field of trauma and dissociation, Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors imparts a vision of hope and validation to those suffering from complex trauma and the therapists who treat them. Janina Fisher’s exceptional ability to synthesize the best of cutting edge trauma psychotherapies has resulted in a brilliant and unique roadmap for resolving chronic traumatization. Written with heart, clarity, and precision, this accessible and practical book is an outstanding contribution to the field."
Pat Ogden, PhD, founder, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute
"The role of cumulative trauma in the fragmentation of self-experience, the strategies for identifying, together with the client, the non-integrated parts of the personality during the clinical exchanges, and the integrating power of the psychotherapy dialogue have rarely been dealt with in such a convincing and original way as in the pages of this fascinating book."
Giovanni Liotti, MD, APC School of Psychotherapy, Rome, Italy
"Janina Fisher’s unique blending of IFS ‘parts’ with sensorimotor and mindfulness-based therapy is a terrific enhancement to psychodynamic work. Although grounded in structural dissociation theory and trauma treatment, Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors offers insights that will enrich the knowledge-base of therapists treating higher-functioning as well as deeply traumatized individuals. I recommend this remarkable book to all psychotherapists, especially psychodynamic ones, who will discover an extraordinary opportunity to expand their clinical horizons."
Kenneth A. Frank, PhD, Psychotherapy Integration Training Program, National Institute for Psychotherapies
Readers will close the pages of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors with a solid grasp of therapeutic approaches to traumatic attachment, working with undiagnosed dissociative symptoms and disorders, integrating "right brain-to-right brain" treatment methods, and much more. Most of all, they will come away with tools for helping clients create an internal sense of safety and compassionate connection to even their most dis-owned selves.
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About the Author
Janina Fisher, PhD, is assistant education director of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, an EMDR International Association (EMDRIA) consultant, and a former instructor at the Trauma Center, a clinic and research center founded by Bessel van der Kolk. Known for her expertise as a clinician, author, and presenter, she is also past president of the New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation, a former instructor at Harvard Medical School, and coauthor (with Pat Ogden) of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment.
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- ASIN : 0415708230
- Publisher : Routledge; 1st edition (8 March 2017)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 292 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9780415708234
- ISBN-13 : 978-0415708234
- Dimensions : 15.24 x 1.68 x 22.86 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 22,094 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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We now understand that trauma’s imprint is both psychological and somatic: long after the events are over, the body continues to respond as if danger were ever-present. My professional mission for the past 25 years has been to bring a neurobiologically-informed understanding of trauma to both clients and their therapists. I believe the key to healing is not just knowing what happened but transforming how the mind, body, and soul still remember it. Most of all, healing is an act of accepting, reclaiming, and being able to love our most wounded and rejected young selves.
I have had the good fortune to have been taught by or worked alongside the giants in the field of psychological trauma: Judith Herman, Bessel van der Kolk, Pat Ogden, Dick Schwartz. And as much as these pioneers taught me, the most powerful and gifted teachers I have are the survivors who gave me a window into the inner experience of trauma, taught me what always to say and what never to say, and helped to validate or disprove what the experts and theorists were claiming. It has been a privilege to learn with them and from them. My new book, "Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma" was written with them
in mind.
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I have lived with (C)PTSD all of my life despite determined, repeated and lengthy attempts to 'fix it' via any and every means and modality that I thought even had a ghost of a chance of helping. Some gave temporary relief, only to be followed by a return to my standard operating procedure, which is a traumatic response toward...well, everything. Most of my life's energy and focus has been on trying to fix, or at least manage, the symptoms.
As the author states in the book - despite all of the therapy/self-help, many (I would say most-to-all) still live in the 'stuckness' of symptoms of fragmentation and limp through life with the "...vulnerability to being triggered by apparently innocuous stimuli, swept into the "trauma vortex," and overwhelmed with painful emotions and physiological responses." While I have tried some of the approaches described in this book, the attempts were done as stand-alone and without any knowledge of the Structural Dissociation Model which should be required training for every mental health worker and passed on to the client.
At first glance, the book looked a bit dense and I nearly just put it on the shelf. Luckily, and out of resigned desperation (I was just coming out of a bewildering 'trauma vortex' situation), I picked it up. The information is presented in an integrated, scientific and holistic way, but doesn't read like dry research.
I think it's important to know that you don't need to have DID (I don't) or even to have any kind of dissociative diagnosis. If you've experienced trauma I'd put this book at the top of the resource list. If I was currently in therapy, I'd buy the book and give it to him/her as a requisite for our working together! I believe this approach will prove to be pivotal, a turning point in how trauma can be, finally, successfully treated.
I have read many books about dissociation but this has been by far the most informative, the author explains dissociation in a way that I don’t believe anyone else has achieved as of yet.
The "buts": why quote Pema Chödrön, who (read in Daniel Shaw: Traumatic Narcissism, and his second book) belongs to a spiritual circle where children were and are sexually abused. No need for that. (also: Alice Miller - she did pioneer work, but severely psychologically abused her son Martin Miller (after her death he wrote a book) that he was on the verge of suicide (Alice Miller "interviewed" the therapist of Martin and did not respect any boundaries, the therapist revealed the contents being told in confidentialiy).
Also:
love: cannot be "earned" - it is a present, which someone (parents..) are able to give or not
respect: says something about my inner atttitude! If I treat a homeless person without respect, this is saying something about me and my (im)maturity, not the person. If I treat them with respect, it says something about me and my attitude (replace "homeless" with any stigmatised group - people of colour, people living in poverty, women, gay people etc. etc.). If we need "tolerance", it means we have prejudices but are aware of them and have decided not to act on them. No-one would say: "I have tolerance towards people with brown/or blue eyes"....
recognition: can and must be earned through participation and giving to society, what we contribute, in whatever form
Also: the term "curiosity" is surely fine for many people, but maybe not for others and overused in the book. If I have "interest" - then I am open to explore, curiosity to me (e.g. in contact with other people) often means overstepping boundaries. Personally I prefer expressions like "to explore", "to investigate", "to have a closer look at", "to pause and look at something from a different angle/ perspective".
All in all: the book certainly merits five stars and is highly recommendable.