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Kroppen håller räkningen : Hjärna, sinne och kropp vid läkning efter psykiskt trauma

Bessel van der Kolk

4.27 AVERAGE

kaynay31's review against another edition

5.0

challenging informative inspiring medium-paced

annelisegordon's review against another edition

3.5

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welfin's review against another edition

5.0

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, War

kefin_clover's review against another edition

5.0

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Extremely interesting. Took me a long time to read - as interested as I was, the material was very informative and I could only read so much at once 

kristelbelle248's review against another edition

4.0

dark informative reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, War, Injury/Injury detail

emmapanske's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH

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Yeah so this book is very problematic in a lot of ways. Not finishing. Going to be looking for something else that doesn’t have all the weird issues and weird guilt tripping attached to it. And I heard that this author may or may not have taken work from a fellow woman author. Sooooooo yeah no. Not reading if this is how this dude operates. 

I’ve also been seeing many other book recommendations as alternates to this one so I will be looking into those. 

stephanie_shand's review against another edition

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Abandonment, Sexual harassment

cryptidaddy's review against another edition

2.0

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This book was… okay. I started to check out with this author when they spent more time sharing details about veterans than traumatized Black and nbpoc. Personally, it’s wild to me to write a book about trauma and victims of trauma and actively choose to not only include veterans but provide more detailed information about a group of people who perpetrate violence and enact & enable white supremacy (usually towards Black and nbpoc) who aren’t victims of trauma but have ptsd from their own actions and the violence they themselves perpetrated than actual victims. My probably unpopular opinion? veterans should sit in those uncomfortable emotions and what they did to people instead of using therapy (which, in the US, also has a tendency to uphold systemic racism and fail to acknowledge the impact of white supremacy on marginalized people), which tells them they are somehow victims and allows them to remove themselves from the consequences of their actions. That, to me, is something different from victims of trauma and difficult to conflate with veterans' ptsd. But I can understand how a white person wouldn't be aware of and make this connection because of their perceived right to objectivity that allows them the comfort of removing themselves from the impact of systemic oppression and being oblivious to anything and everything that doesn't directly impact them. 

taranightreader's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 63%

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I was told this book would be good with advice on dealing with trauma. Instead I just got retraumatized over and over as it talked about people's trauma in detail with no advice. If you're sensitive to rape, don't read this. Ch1 sympathises with a rapist.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Rape, Sexual assault, Murder, War

lucyfettuccine's review against another edition

4.75

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