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Summary: A fascinating exploration into the phenomenon of self abuse.
Review: A new perspective on why women with eating disorders, compulsions, obsessions, and self abuse disorders act out in self-harmful ways. In order to understand these women, it is necessary, says the author, to understand TRS, or Trauma Reenactment Syndrome. All of the women in this book were subconsciously reenacting experienced trauma in childhood. Once made to comprehend that, the women were given a "program" of sorts to help them find their way out of the ever progressive syndrome of self abuse. This book made me look at this syndrome with new eyes and a clearer understanding of the courage the women she writes about have. This book will provide assistance for the many women out there who live with the shame of their obsessions, and will provide hope for a brighter tomorrow. Dusty Miller writes to the average reader, as well as to therapists and other professionals. The book is easy to understand and hard to put down.
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Summary: ...Because there is Hope
Review: Dusty Miller is an author and therapist whose gentle spirit and powerul voice are providing a generation of women survivors with a safe and protective presence in their therapy and recovery. This book serves as a role model for clinicians trying to help clients on their sojourn from pain and hurt to truth and healing. Miller provides us the courage we need as therapists to engage in "cutting conversations"--ones which our clients will greatly benefit from and be extreamly grateful for. --Jonathan Diamond Ph.D. author Narrative Means to Sober Ends: Treating Addiction And Its Aftermath; private practice, Northampton and Greenfield MA.
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Summary: Proceed with Caution
Review: I actually met Ms. Miller at a convention in Albany, NY this past year. She is a very compassionate woman & extremely knowledgeable on this subject. This book is a fantastic resource for anyone who wants to brush up on the subject of self-injury in women.
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Summary: A Must Read!
Review: I actually met Ms. Miller at a convention in Albany, NY this past year. She is a very compassionate woman & extremely knowledgeable on this subject. This book is a fantastic resource for anyone who wants to brush up on the subject of self-injury in women.
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Summary: Starting point
Review: I think this book is a must read for anyone who is treating or in a relationship with a women her engages in risky behaviors or self-mutilation. It puts the I don't understand into, ok I get it a bit. I don't think it is an end all book since the trauma and abuse often goes deeper than this book does. I do however reccomend it as a starting point to other more triggering books. I think this book along with being a must read is also a must keep for referral for yourself and family and to give to people who want to understand better the journey of these tortured women.
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Summary: Maybe a good book for professionals, but not for me.
Review: My therapist let me borrow his copy of this book when he first started treating me. If anything, this book was more upsetting to me than helpful. I went ahead and gave it three stars because I think if you were a professional trying to get a grasp of what was going on in the head of someone who self injures then this book would be helpful. But for me the graphic descriptions of the abuse the women in the book suffered was a bit much, especially while trying to process my own issues. Plus it did not offer me any true insight into my own problems with self injury, or any guidance as to how to stop. I think the main thing I got out of it was that at least if my therapist had read this he was attempting to understand self injurious behaviour, which was more than most therapists I'd encountered had attempted to do.
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Summary: BEST READ
Review: THIS BOOK HAS HELPED ME UNDERSTAND MY BEST FRIEND A WHOLE LOT BETTER, I WOULD RECOMEND THIS BOOK TO ALL DOCTORS AND CHURCH MINISTERS AND CHURCH PASTORS AS AN EXCELENT HELP IN UNDERSTANDING WOMEN WHO SUFFER IN THESE AREAS ONCE I STARTED TO READ THIS BOOK I COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN.EASY TO READ EASY TO UNDERSTAND, SIMPLY THE BEST I HAVE READ IN THIS FIELD.
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Summary: A GREAT DESCRIPTION OF HOW TO DEAL WITH A TRS WOMAN
Review: This book is of great use to the psychonalaytic model because it throroughly explains what the therapy for the syndrome adresses, which is Trauma reeneacment Syndrome, should be treated. Although this book only provides one psychoanalist's point of view, it give great information on what a woman with TRS goes under. This is also a great book to read and get credit for an abnormal psychology book review, eh Ms. Martin?
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Summary: Proceed with Caution
Review: This was a good book for people interested in the phenomenon of self-mutilation and people who have advanced quite far on the road to recovery, but beware otherwise. It's very intense and has a great deal of upsetting and graphic stories of abuse- many of which are sexual in nature. It's hard to get through at times. If you are in the midst of dealing with a cutting problem, this might be too hard to read. If you are just starting to recover, this might trigger a relapse. It's a good book, but just proceed with great caution.
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