Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life by Christie Tate

5 reviews

trycerabel's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcohol, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Addiction, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Toxic relationship

noshelf_control's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming and Eating disorder

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Infidelity, and Emotional abuse

scottishlindsay's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Body shaming, Death of parent, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Grief, Infidelity, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Self harm, Sexism, and Sexual violence

reading_between_the_trees's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

This book stirred up a lot of controversy on bookstagram about ethical therapy practices, and although I am not a therapist, I have gone to therapy myself and spoken to friends in the field at length about this book. Ultimately, my opinion is that therapy is completely voluntary, and different things will work for different people. While Dr. Rosen's techniques may be unconventional, this book is a memoir, and his techniques clearly worked well for the author.

My biggest takeaway from this book was about honesty. With others, with yourself, about yourself. Honesty is not something you just have to commit to, but something you have to work towards and uncover, because typically it is buried in shame and embarrassment. It was really inspiring to read about Christie learning to confront her most shameful secrets as a mode of liberation. It inspired me to really examine my self-talk and the ways I interact with and convey myself to others.

One qualm I had about this book was that I wish the reader had gotten more insight into Christie's journey with her eating disorder. I understand that the book was about group therapy, and maybe she focused more on her eating disorder in the meetings she attended for it, but it felt like a big part of the story in the beginning, and I was curious to see how her management of it was entangled with her healing in other areas of her life that she did discuss in group. Overall though, this was a very powerful memoir that I would recommend.

Please look at the content warnings before reading the book. The parts about eating disorders were especially difficult to read about.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Sexual assault, Self harm, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Death, and Body shaming

Moderate: Vomit, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Emotional abuse

sara_phoenix's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Self harm, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Cursing, and Body shaming