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Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation by Janina Fisher

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jackkuhns's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative medium-paced

5.0

This is going to be a book i return to for help in understanding myself. The parts framework has been really useful for understanding my dysregulation and dissociation. While this book doesn't discuss trans issues at all, the treatment of dissociation advocated here would probably be useful for other trans people like me.

I appreciated the difference in focus this had to the traditional event memory remembering / reconstructing a narrative of 'what happened' view. The focus is on identifying how traumatic events are still effecting us and to repair damaged internal attachments.

this book was difficult for me to read. there were enough sections of the book that i made a little symbol in my marginalia for marking passages that me cry (or otherwise triggered me). This book is not for beginners in that regard, especially if one doesn't have the skills to manage their overwhelm. This book also provided me with skills to unblend from triggered parts, and to experience being present and attuning with those parts.

freddievonfred's review against another edition

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challenging informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.5

vari's review against another edition

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challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

lambofdawn's review against another edition

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5.0

Extraordinarily useful to anyone struggling with Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. I will say it repeats itself verbatim OFTEN - but considering I have memory issues, it is useful. Annoying, but purposeful haha.