Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Bruce D. Perry, Oprah Winfrey

66 reviews

thoughtsfromtheafro's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

It’s impossible not to read (or listen) to this book and not take a copious amount of notes. I rewound multiple times. It weaves the neuroscience in well, and I was able to visualize the descriptions. I like that it leans more heavily to Dr. Perry, with Oprah chiming in; otherwise it might have made it a little clinical. 

Examples will give you something to relate to, and the teasing out of it all will make you feel like you aren’t alone. They don’t give you so much to the point that you should self-diagnose, but do give you things to chew on and recall your own memories to see if they’re applicable. This is great to read if you’re also looking into/doing IFS or shadow work. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, and Child abuse

Minor: War and Alcoholism

byhannakim's review against another edition

hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

I love the reframe “what happened to you” instead of “what’s wrong with you?” I highly recommend listening to the audiobook version of this.

This book gave me what I felt was missing from “The Body Keeps the Score.” Oprah and Dr. Perry touch on race and generational trauma with Oprah bringing her incredible interview and storytelling skills and Perry breaking down the facts in an easy way.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness and Child abuse

diaratewi's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Abandonment, Child abuse, and Emotional abuse

leslie_overbookedsocialworker's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Physical abuse

cheesepuppy's review against another edition

4.5

Not without it’s faults, but this book and line of thinking has been enlightening. It’s interesting because this is something I’ve thought about a lot in the past few years. I enjoyed learning more

I love having a new way to reframe things I’ve always known but had never heard put into the right words to have the right impact.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, and Child abuse

Moderate: Drug abuse

sharladione's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

If you want to understand your own trauma or the trauma of those you love, and how to move forward from it, this book is for you. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment

Moderate: Torture, Colonisation, Drug use, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Rape, Self harm, Addiction, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Child abuse, Drug abuse, and Sexual assault

Minor: Trafficking, Police brutality, Eating disorder, and Abortion

greenlivingaudioworm's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Abandonment, Addiction, Gun violence, Child abuse, and Grief

barelyconcealed's review against another edition

hopeful informative medium-paced

2.0

 This book is odd; I listened to this because it was recommended to do it that way - the book is more of a conversation between Dr. Perry and Oprah Winfrey. This is perhaps the part that makes it odd in that several times throughout the book they would reference third parties - either people dealing with their own trauma, or folks like Maori community elders, and I kept thinking "wow I wish they had written this book instead."

This book is a work of pop-science, and that's to its detriment since it frequently relies on anecdotes - truly horrific anecdotes - to support its conclusions and then when it mentions the science frequently seems to admit that the results just aren't in yet.

Other negative reviews have pointed out its mixed messages - namely that it seems to believe that trauma is ingrained and permanent, but also that you can heal through it. There is a finality to the way that trauma is presented.

If this had been an article, it might have been revelatory. As a book, I bounced about halfway through 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Child abuse, and Medical trauma

kegila's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Violence

bookreadingelf's review against another edition

3.75

Interesting, but could go deeper.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Abandonment, Mental illness, and Emotional abuse