Wounded By Reality

Author : Ghislaine Boulanger
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781136873058

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Wounded By Reality by Ghislaine Boulanger Pdf

The culmination of three decades of studying and treating survivors of adult onset trauma, Wounded by Reality is the first systematic attempt to differentiate adult onset trauma from childhood trauma, with which it is frequently confused. When catastrophic events overtake adult lives, they often scar the psyche in ways that psychodynamically oriented clinicians struggle to understand. For Ghislaine Boulanger, the enormous challenge of working with these patients is unsurprising. Survivors of major catastrophe, whether a natural disaster, a life-threatening assault, a serious accident, or an act of terrorism, experience a near-fatal disruption of fundamental aspects of self experience. The sense of agency, of affectivity, of bodily integrity, the capacity for self-reflection, the sense of time, and the ability to relate to others - all are called into question.

Author : G. Boulanger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:488082481

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Wounded by Reality by G. Boulanger Pdf

Author : Bessel A. Van der Kolk
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780143127741

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The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel A. Van der Kolk Pdf

Originally published by Viking Penguin, 2014.

Author : Stephen Mulhall
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0691137374

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The Wounded Animal by Stephen Mulhall Pdf

Taking a work by J.M. Coetzee as an example, this volume explores the way both literature and philosophy seek - and fail - to represent reality. Stephen Mulhall examines Coetzee's 'Elizabeth Costello', which deals with the moral status of animals.

Author : Renee Linklater
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-10T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773633848

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Decolonizing Trauma Work by Renee Linklater Pdf

In Decolonizing Trauma Work, Renee Linklater explores healing and wellness in Indigenous communities on Turtle Island. Drawing on a decolonizing approach, which puts the “soul wound” of colonialism at the centre, Linklater engages ten Indigenous health care practitioners in a dialogue regarding Indigenous notions of wellness and wholistic health, critiques of psychiatry and psychiatric diagnoses, and Indigenous approaches to helping people through trauma, depression and experiences of parallel and multiple realities. Through stories and strategies that are grounded in Indigenous worldviews and embedded with cultural knowledge, Linklater offers purposeful and practical methods to help individuals and communities that have experienced trauma. Decolonizing Trauma Work, one of the first books of its kind, is a resource for education and training programs, health care practitioners, healing centres, clinical services and policy initiatives.

Author : Dan B. Allender
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493401512

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Healing the Wounded Heart by Dan B. Allender Pdf

First published in 1989, Dan Allender's The Wounded Heart has helped hundreds of thousands of people come to terms with sexual abuse in their past. Now, more than twenty-five years later, Allender has written a brand-new book on the subject that takes into account recent discoveries about the lasting physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual ramifications of sexual abuse. With great compassion Allender offers hope for victims of rape, date rape, incest, molestation, sexting, sexual bullying, unwanted advances, pornography, and more, exposing the raw wounds that are left behind and clearing the path toward wholeness and healing. Never minimizing victims' pain or offering pat spiritual answers that don't truly address the problem, he instead calls evil evil and lights the way to renewed joy. Counselors, pastors, and friends of those who have suffered sexual harm will find in this book the deep spiritual guidance they need to effectively minister to the sexually broken around them. Victims themselves will find here a sympathetic friend to walk alongside them on the road to healing.

Author : Dardi Hendershott,Joe Hendershott
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000030358

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Supporting the Wounded Educator by Dardi Hendershott,Joe Hendershott Pdf

Educators today are facing challenges and demands like never before. The tensions between an educator’s calling and the reality of the profession can create a growing sense of compassion fatigue, burnout, and job dissatisfaction. In light of this context, this book brings firsthand knowledge alongside research to encourage, equip, and empower teachers and other K-12 educators to find relief and hope. Taking a trauma-sensitive approach, this important resource will help you navigate the pressures of being an educator, whether you entered into your profession carrying wounds with you, have felt wounded from your work environment, or you are simply someone trying to support others. Packed with doable strategies and suggestions for personal and professional self-care, this book will help you discover a personal journey towards holistic health, job satisfaction, and most importantly, hope!

Author : Dennis Patrick Slattery
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791443825

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The Wounded Body by Dennis Patrick Slattery Pdf

Explores the wounded body in literature from Homer to Toni Morrison, examining how it functions archetypally as both a cultural metaphor and a poetic image.

Author : Stanley Cavell,Cora Diamond,John McDowell,Ian Hacking
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231145152

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Philosophy and Animal Life by Stanley Cavell,Cora Diamond,John McDowell,Ian Hacking Pdf

This groundbreaking collection of contributions by leading philosophers offers a new way of thinking about animal rights, our obligation to animals, and the nature of philosophy itself.

Author : Catherine Lacey
Publisher : FSG Originals
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374711283

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Nobody Is Ever Missing by Catherine Lacey Pdf

In the spirit of Haruki Murakami and Amelia Gray, Catherine Lacey's Nobody Is Ever Missing is full of mordant humor and uncanny insights, as Elyria waffles between obsession and numbness in the face of love, loss, danger, and self-knowledge. Without telling her family, Elyria takes a one-way flight to New Zealand, abruptly leaving her stable but unfulfilling life in Manhattan. As her husband scrambles to figure out what happened to her, Elyria hurtles into the unknown, testing fate by hitchhiking, tacitly being swept into the lives of strangers, and sleeping in fields, forests, and public parks. Her risky and often surreal encounters with the people and wildlife of New Zealand propel Elyria deeper into her deteriorating mind. Haunted by her sister's death and consumed by an inner violence, her growing rage remains so expertly concealed that those who meet her sense nothing unwell. This discord between her inner and outer reality leads her to another obsession: If her truest self is invisible and unknowable to others, is she even alive? The risks Elyria takes on her journey are paralleled by the risks Catherine Lacey takes on the page. In urgent, spiraling prose she whittles away at the rage within Elyria and exposes the very real, very knowable anxiety of the human condition. And yet somehow Lacey manages to poke fun at her unrelenting self-consciousness, her high-stakes search for the dark heart of the self.

Author : Fyre Jean Graveline
Publisher : Halifax, N.S. : Fernwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Authors, Canadian (English)
ISBN : 1552661423

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Healing Wounded Hearts by Fyre Jean Graveline Pdf

Healing Wounded Hearts brings together stories, poems and artwork that illustrate the struggles and strengths the author has, as a Metis woman, living in intersecting, parallel, sometime colliding, socio-cultural realities. -- cover.

Author : Julia Lieblich,Esad Boskailo
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780826518255

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Wounded I Am More Awake by Julia Lieblich,Esad Boskailo Pdf

Wounded I Am More Awake follows the story of Esad Boskailo, a doctor who survives six concentration camps in Bosnia and emerges with powerful new lessons for healing in an age of genocide. This gripping account raises questions for healers, survivors, and readers striving to understand the reality of war and the aftermath of terror. Is it possible to find meaning after enduring crimes against humanity? Can people heal after trauma? Human rights journalist Julia Lieblich takes the reader through Boskailo's early years under Tito to the wars when friends turned on friends. She documents his harrowing experiences in the camps, where the men he once joined for coffee murder his best friend from childhood. But the story does not end there. Boskailo moves to the United States and decides to become a psychiatrist so he can guide survivors through the long-term process of restoring hope. Today, inspired by the late psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl, Boskailo uses his own experience to help patients mourn their losses and find meaning in the aftermath of terror.

Author : Anne Graham Lotz
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781444779523

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Wounded by God's People by Anne Graham Lotz Pdf

'I believe there are many of us who have been wounded by God's people. And I believe there are those of you who have been so wounded, that you have confused God's people with God, and so have run from Him. The purpose of this book is to help you get past your wounds...to move forward into the joy and fellowship of God's presence, claiming the fullness of the blessings He has for you. God loves the wounded. I know.' In her most personal book to date, much loved author Anne Graham Lotz looks at a deeply painful question: what to do when we suffer rejection and hardship at the hands of other believers. Drawing on the story of Hagar, Abraham's mistreated servant, Anne shares the good news of healing and hope, offered by a God who loves us all - especially those on the periphery. An inspiring blend of Old Testament narrative with the author's own experience, this is a book that will show you that, just like Hagar found, 'you can't outrun God'.

Author : Becca Puglisi ,Angela Ackerman
Publisher : JADD Publishing
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780999296301

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The Emotional Wound Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Psychological Trauma by Becca Puglisi ,Angela Ackerman Pdf

Readers connect to characters with depth, ones who have experienced life’s ups and downs. To deliver key players that are both realistic and compelling, writers must know them intimately—not only who they are in the present story, but also what made them that way. Of all the formative experiences in a character’s past, none are more destructive than emotional wounds. The aftershocks of trauma can change who they are, alter what they believe, and sabotage their ability to achieve meaningful goals, all of which will affect the trajectory of your story. Identifying the backstory wound is crucial to understanding how it will shape your character’s behavior, and The Emotional Wound Thesaurus can help. Inside, you’ll find: * A database of traumatic situations common to the human experience * An in-depth study on a wound’s impact, including the fears, lies, personality shifts, and dysfunctional behaviors that can arise from different painful events * An extensive analysis of character arc and how the wound and any resulting unmet needs fit into it * Techniques on how to show the past experience to readers in a way that is both engaging and revelatory while avoiding the pitfalls of info dumps and telling * A showcase of popular characters and how their traumatic experiences reshaped them, leading to very specific story goals * A Backstory Wound Profile tool that will enable you to document your characters’ negative past experiences and the aftereffects Root your characters in reality by giving them an authentic wound that causes difficulties and prompts them to strive for inner growth to overcome it. With its easy-to-read format and over 100 entries packed with information, The Emotional Wound Thesaurus is a crash course in psychology for creating characters that feel incredibly real to readers.

Author : Janina Fisher
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134613014

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Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors by Janina Fisher Pdf

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.