Reviews tagging 'Rape'

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

341 reviews

mariaeileen's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Mental illness, and Rape

librar_bee's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and War

therainbowshelf's review against another edition

hopeful informative slow-paced

5.0

A therapist recommended this to my husband to help him explore PTSD treatments that he can try and maybe get even more familiar with PTSD. I found this book informative, inspiring, hopeful, and heartbreaking. It was tough reading about the history of scapegoating PTSD research, and it was great reading about evolving treatments as discoveries are made. Strong content warnings for rape, child and domestic abuse, medical trauma, and many more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, War, and Injury/Injury detail

ezrah's review against another edition

challenging informative

4.0

This one had been on my list for a long time so it got a little overhyped in some ways. I thought it was going to have more detail about generational trauma. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, and Rape

Its clearly written for clinicians who are used to hearing trauma histories so those can be a bit intense for folks who dont have as much exposure.

victoria_catherine_shaw's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Incest, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Violence, and War

mandi4886's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Incest, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Drug abuse, Vomit, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Dysphoria, and Classism

pandygbcorner's review against another edition

informative

4.25

A book that sheds light on the effects of trauma and abuse and how common it unfortunately is. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, and Murder

atalea's review against another edition

dark hopeful informative inspiring sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, and Medical trauma

erikawynn's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, and Suicidal thoughts

jennifer_vars's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

"We have learned that trauma is not just an event that took place sometime in the past; it is also the imprint left by that experience on mind, brain, and body. This imprint has ongoing consequences for how the human organism manages to survive in the present. Trauma results in a fundamental reorganization of the way mind and brain manage perceptions. It changes not only how we think and what we think about, but also our very capacity to think."

This is a hard book to "recommend". It's a book about trauma and there are really graphic examples that almost make this book unbearable. Serious content warning here for anyone who has experienced PTSD, violence or SA.

I've been working through it for about a year, I had to put it aside a few times. A good part of this book consists of very clinical terminology so I think it was really targeted for mental health professionals. However, I thought the chapters towards the end were accessible and gave an interesting look into how trauma marks bodies in ways that we don't consciously notice. 

I especially connected with the sections where the author writes about how theater, stories, music, and sports foster competence and collective bonding. 

The author writes about Ubuntu, a Xhosa principle that means "My humanity is inextricably bound up in yours." Trauma breeds further trauma; hurt people hurt other people.

Maybe the world is becoming a more traumatic place but maybe we are just more conscious of the implications of trauma on ourselves and our families. Maybe more people are working to break the cycle.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and War