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Summary: A Clinical Approach to PTSD
Review: I read this book hoping to understand the process and personality of PTSD. What I found was a very clinical book not geared for the "beginner". Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: DSM-IV and Beyond is more of a text book giving statistics, graphs and reports on the illness. I would not recommend this book to the person who is wanting updated information on PTSD treatment or to the person who wants easy-reading biographical stories. Instead I recommend "Transforming Trauma: EMDR (The revolutionary New Therapy for Freeing the Mind, Clearing the Body, and Opening the Heart)" by Laurel Parnell, Ph.D., to anyone who wants to understand PTSD and how EMDR has helped some people overcome fear, phobia, anxiety attacks and other symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. "Transforming Trauma: EMDR" (ISBN 0-393-04053-4) is written by a clinical psycologist and is very easy reading. Lots of biographical stories and an appendix on how to choose an EMDR therapist. After reading 10 chapters (275 pages)... I felt really good and very hopeful. :) Happy Reading, Jenny
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Summary: A Clinical Approach to PTSD
Review: I read this book hoping to understand the process and personality of PTSD. What I found was a very clinical book not geared for the "beginner". Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: DSM-IV and Beyond is more of a text book giving statistics, graphs and reports on the illness. I would not recommend this book to the person who is wanting updated information on PTSD treatment or to the person who wants easy-reading biographical stories. Instead I recommend "Transforming Trauma: EMDR (The revolutionary New Therapy for Freeing the Mind, Clearing the Body, and Opening the Heart)" by Laurel Parnell, Ph.D., to anyone who wants to understand PTSD and how EMDR has helped some people overcome fear, phobia, anxiety attacks and other symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. "Transforming Trauma: EMDR" (ISBN 0-393-04053-4) is written by a clinical psycologist and is very easy reading. Lots of biographical stories and an appendix on how to choose an EMDR therapist. After reading 10 chapters (275 pages)... I felt really good and very hopeful. :) Happy Reading, Jenny
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