Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

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

8 reviews

luke_33's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, Mental illness, Eating disorder, Abandonment, Addiction, Child abuse, Death, Medical content, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Grief, Drug abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Bullying, Self harm, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

dianaschmidty's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Grief, Drug abuse, Medical content, Sexual assault, Alcoholism, Addiction, Blood, Child abuse, Classism, Death, Medical trauma, Violence, Emotional abuse, and Mental illness

hailcornell's review against another edition

hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

A good listen. This is a good book for those who are just starting out on their healing journey. As for those with trauma who have already started getting involved with their healing (therapy, etc) this book may feel slightly redundant or not as informative. A good read nonetheless.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Racism, Suicide, Mental illness, Self harm, and Sexual assault

wwweronka's review

challenging emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

Audiobook. I want to go through the ebook to pick up some quotes I'd like to remember. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Self harm, Racism, Medical trauma, Domestic abuse, Grief, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Suicide, and Mental illness

Minor: Death of parent, Eating disorder, and Death

astroandbooksbyjess's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Medical trauma

barelyconcealed's review

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

sakisreads's review

challenging informative sad slow-paced

4.5

Wow! What a book! Oprah and Dr. Perry’s conversations are intense but iconic; there was so much to digest and take in. Two parts struck out to me in particular (the latter being because I’m taking a flight later on today)! 😳

‘Crimes involving a Black suspect and a white victim make up only 10% of all crimes - but they account for 42% of what’s reported on television. When you’re watching the news and almost half of what you see is Black people committing crimes against white people, that’s going to influence the way you think when you see a Black person.’ ‘Many people have had the experience of feeling ‘exhausted’ after a day of travel, even if all they did was stand in a few lines and sit on a plane. This happens because your brain was continuously monitoring thousands of new stimuli. Remember: Activating your stress-response systems, even at a moderate level, for long periods of time is physically and emotionally draining.’

I do think the audio version may be slightly better for this book, only because it is so conversational and slightly clunky in written form because of that, but it was still very beautiful. I don’t feel that I could take it all in at once so I am definitely going to try and get an audio edition ✨

Thank you! 🥰

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Mass/school shootings, Addiction, Bullying, Chronic illness, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Violence, and War

annabunce's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

Excellent read - very helpful for trying to learn how to take a trauma informed approach in life and work. Loved the style of a conversation and the many examples and stories used to illustrate the data and findings. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion, Addiction, Alcoholism, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Medical trauma, Medical content, Rape, Racism, and Suicide