Reviews tagging 'Rape'

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

341 reviews

tangleroot_eli's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Car accident

Moderate: Ableism, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Incest, Rape, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Death of parent, Cultural appropriation, and War

tangerinetea's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Eating disorder, Incest, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Medical trauma, Car accident, and War

stirlitza's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

staffbucks's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Incest, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Car accident, and War

sweetchocolatez's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Incest, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Trafficking, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

amehlia's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, and Medical content

thewileyseven's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative slow-paced

5.0

Essential! Read! This book has not only changed how I view the actions of others in the world but how I approach myself. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Incest, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Trafficking, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, and War

emmakchapman's review against another edition

challenging emotional slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, and Self harm

mangofandango's review against another edition

emotional informative slow-paced

4.0

This is heavy reading and it took me a long time to get through it. But it is very worthwhile and fascinating reading too, and I think I would like to own a copy. It's just such an important book, and important work. It isn't going to give you ways to heal your own trauma directly or immediately, it's more about understanding the ways trauma affects us - but that understanding can be a profound help in a long term sense, I think. It's pretty academic in nature, but it provides an overview of many personal experiences and studies of a lot of different therapies and approaches to addressing trauma, and I think there's a lot you can glean and perspectives you can use for yourself even if treatment isn't readily available to you. But treatment absolutely should be available, to all of us, and I wish we as a culture were willing to address trauma and traumatized people differently. This book shows us the many, many ways American culture is shaped by its complete refusal to address developmental trauma, and how far reaching and negative those impacts are...and how we could change that, if we (especially government and health care systems) were willing to try in a systematic way.

It is important to note that the author describes in detail many, many horrifying personal experiences, and that it has the potential to be extremely triggering. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, and War

amyrezende's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Incest, Rape, and Self harm