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Summary: A Great Start!
Review: Check out Dr. Sarno's work on back pain, Doc Don Colbert's "Deadly Emotions" and "A More Excellent Way" by Henry Wright. The last two are Christian-based books, so they include the mind-body-spirit connection.
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Summary: The Body/Mind Connection - Abuse and PsychoTrauma
Review: Excellent compliments to this book are: The Angry Heart: Overcoming Borderline and Addictive Disorders by Joseph Santoro and Ronald Cohen; Emotional Blackmail: When People in Your Life Use Fear, Obligation and Guilt to Manipulate You by Susan Forward and Donna Frazier; Why Is It Always About You?: The Seven Deadly Sins of Narcissism by Sandy Hotchkiss and James Masterson; The Narcissistic Family: Diagnosis and Treatment by Stephanie Donaldson-Pressman and Robert Pressman; Understanding the Borderline Mother: Helping Her Children Transcend the Intense, Unpredictable and Volatile Relationship by Christine Ann Lawson; Living with the Passive-Aggressive Man by Scott Wetzler; Malignant Self Love: Narcissism Revisited by Sam Vaknin and Lidija Rangelovska (Editor); Children of the Self-Absorbed: A Grown-Up's Guide to Getting Over Narcissistic Parents by Nina Brown; Treating Attachment Disorders: From Theory to Therapy by Karl Heinz Brisch and Kenneth Kronenberg; Toxic Coworkers: How to Deal with Dysfunctional People on the Job by Alan Cavaiola and Neil Lavender; Bully in Sight: How to Predict, Resist, Challenge and Combat Workplace Bullies by Tim Field.And if you want to pursue the subject even further, you may be interested in reading The Narcissistic / Borderline Couple: A Psychoanalytic Perspective On Marital Treatment; Addicted to Unhappiness: Free yourself from the moods and behaviors that undermine relationships, work and the life you want by Martha Heineman Pieper and William Pieper; Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood by Julie Gregory and Marc Feldman; Parenting with Love and Logic: Teaching Children Responsibility by Jim Fay and Foster Cline.
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Summary: The cutting-edge treatment described first-hand
Review: Having used EMDR in my clinical practice for 10 years, I am delighted to have Maggie Scarf's book available to clients and practitioners alike. It is extremely user-friendly in its explanation and description of EMDR treatment. Scarf's personal journey candidly gives a riveting birds-eye view of her own therapy. Clinicians worldwide know first-hand about the efficacy of this treatment. Now the public will have the chance to understand the importance of the mind-body connection in the treatment of psychological problems. It seems to be a "secret" that EMDR has been approved as one of the few methods effective in the treatment of trauma by the Department of Defense, the U.S. Veterans Administration, the American Psychological Association, and The International Society of Traumatic Stress. The Northern Ireland Department of Health, the Israeli National Council for Mental Health, the Red Cross Disaster Mental Health, the United Kingdom Department of Health, and many other countries recommend EMDR as a first-line treatment. Volunteer clinicians in EMDR's Humanitarian Assistance Program have trained thousands of clinicians as well as treated thousands of survivors of disasters around the world: Oklahoma City, NYC 9/11, Columbine, Dunblane Scotland, the Balkans, and following earthquakes and natural disasters in Turkey, Bombay, Bangladesh, Central and South America. Scarf's book touches on some of this research and gives a genuinely understandable introduction to the physiology of the brain/body connection so necessary in accessing and treating long-buried issues. It is a must-read book for anyone interested in the cutting edge of psychotherapy treatment. Moreover, it is a pleasure to read.
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Summary: Every woman should read this book
Review: Maggie Scarf's insights have been invaluable to me. I was touched by the tremendous empathy she had for her interviewees and particularly impressed with her clear explanation of her research.
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Summary: Wow - who knew western science had evolved so far?
Review: This book represents to me a breakthrough of the barriers between so-called "western" science and other "alternative" therapies in the realm of the psyche, and it does so in a style that is wonderfully accessible to readers. Maggie Scarf's depiction of her process of learning about this therapy - from questioning, to observing, and through to experiencing and analyzing, her own personal experience, blended in with the insightful analysis through case studies and current medical research, was both informative and useful for a general readership. I should think this would make a wonderful 4th July gift for soldiers returning from the Gulf, or pretty much anyone who has experienced a "little t" trauma in their lives, which i suppose means all of us.
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