Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk

21 reviews

delery's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.25

this book was... a lot. i don't think i was necessarily in the right headspace to read it at this time. but it covered so many interesting issues, and i liked how it discussed different treatment methods. but also this book made me nauseous so... idk. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Grief, Incest, Medical content, Pedophilia, Ableism, Abortion, Blood, Body horror, Murder, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Addiction, Car accident, Child death, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Chronic illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Violence, Drug use, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Classism, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Sexual violence, Animal death, Cancer, Child abuse, Medical trauma, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Domestic abuse, Body shaming, and Drug abuse

gabriella_'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

I tried reading this book twice but had to stop because of how emotional it made me. But now that I’ve finally finished it, I wish I read it sooner. It was incredibly informative and absolutely heartbreaking. Some individual patient stories were gutwrenching, so it’s best to take breaks as needed. Listen to your body with this one. Reflect, and be kind to yourself.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Medical trauma, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Confinement, Body horror, Child abuse, Car accident, Body shaming, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Blood, Incest, Sexual harassment, Medical content, Eating disorder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Self harm, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Gun violence, Genocide, Death, Bullying, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

maddb_96's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Self harm, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual harassment, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Abandonment, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Incest, Medical trauma, Murder, Bullying, and Domestic abuse

hannah1937's review against another edition

0.25

This is honestly the most misogynist book I’ve ever read and I am truly baffled why other people like it so much. 

His first case study is Tom, a man who killed children and raped women during the war, which is presented to us as an understandable trauma response to losing his friends in battle. 

His second case study is Sylvia, and the first thing we are told about her is that she is an attractive 19 year old, like that is somehow relavent to anything, or an appropriate way for a therapist to describe a patient. Interestingly we aren’t told anything about Tom’s appearance. Sylvia was raped by her brother and uncle as a child, which he describes as incest, like that the only thing wrong with that situation. As we learn from Tom, raping children is understandable, as long as you aren’t related to them. 

He also describes domestic violence as ‘couples who engage in violence’, a deliberate phrase to remove the concept of a perpetrator and a victim, which is complete rubbish. 

He then describes how surprised he was to learn he got satisfaction from wrestling patients to the ground when working at his first psychiatrict faculty. Do not read this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Gaslighting, Medical trauma, Self harm, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Forced institutionalization, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, and Physical abuse

franklola's review against another edition

challenging informative sad slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicide, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Rape, Suicide attempt, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Pedophilia, Violence, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Incest, Mental illness, and Misogyny

courtneyfalling's review against another edition

informative slow-paced

2.5

I actively contemplated DNFing this the whole time and didn't because I wanted to understand the massive hype and genuinely build an argument against it. Yeah, I regret it. It was... an experience. van der Kolk goes into incredibly vivid and subjective detail about his clients' traumas, worst in the anecdotes where he makes troubling and deeply misogynistic statements about female sexual assault survivors he's worked with. It didn't personally sit well with me at all. This was super unenjoyable and slogging to read. 

He's also surprisingly in favor of biological and neuroscientific explanations of trauma, even while (in contradicting ways) registering how widespread and societal of a problem trauma-inducing abuse is. His insistence that getting more expansive DSM definitions instead of, you know, abolishing the DSM would magically make everything better is not it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Misogyny, Self harm, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Child abuse, and Drug abuse

enchantressreads's review against another edition

dark informative sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Violence, War, Suicide, Sexual violence, and Medical trauma

Minor: Misogyny and Gun violence

tetedump's review against another edition

hopeful informative sad slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Antisemitism, Bullying, Cancer, Car accident, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Colonisation, Confinement, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Violence, War, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Incest, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Stalking, and Xenophobia

ungles's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Classism, Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Body shaming, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Addiction, Gun violence, Hate crime, Incest, Infidelity, Medical trauma, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual violence, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Violence, Child death, Medical content, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, War, Genocide, Homophobia, Self harm, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Bullying, Car accident, Domestic abuse, Forced institutionalization, and Grief

junefish's review

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Child abuse, Incest, Domestic abuse, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Sexual assault, Misogyny, and Abortion