Reviews tagging 'Ableism'

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

16 reviews

tangleroot_eli's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

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

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

raisinreads's review against another edition

informative

4.25

I would honestly rate this higher but a couple parts felt ableist and im tired; very helpful book though 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism

gays0up's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Incest, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Drug use, Eating disorder, Pedophilia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Trafficking, Violence, Death, Grief, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Child abuse, Toxic friendship, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

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

rini's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective tense slow-paced

4.0

This book was a LOT!!!

I initially started reading the dead tree version a couple of years ago, but was so put off by something described near the start that I just couldn't continue.

CW for war, murder, sexual violence

(The incident in question was about a Vietnam vet with PTSD who recounted that after his best friend was killed in combat, he went on a "revenge" rampage at a local village, murdering children, farmers, and raping a woman. All that detail was utterly unnecessary and, as a survivor of rape, hugely triggering and OMFG I don't give a fuck about this dude's PTSD.)

I'm glad that autistics only came up once in passing tbh (though the link between being autistic and being traumatised is well documented, this author would NOT have handled it well!!). It was bad enough hearing so much (ableist/cringey stuff) about ADHD!

Overall, I think it was a worthwhile read, and gave me more insight on trauma, but yikes it was a LOT!!
The author wasn't wrong when he called himself a trauma voyeur (or maybe he said someone else called him that and he had to agree.)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Incest, Mass/school shootings, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, and War

Moderate: Abandonment, Abortion, and Bullying

Minor: Cancer, Dementia, Homophobia, and Vomit

zombiezami's review against another edition

As someone who isn't a mental health professional, I'm not getting that much out of this beyond the thesis that psychological trauma manifests in physical symptoms. Not really enjoying it, and, at least in the parts that I've read, it is very much building off of Trauma and Recovery, which I've already read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, Gun violence, Murder, Child abuse, Child death, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Ableism

Moderate: Abandonment, Alcohol, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt