Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation

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The book has been helpful for me personally so far. But also - wish this had been available to me when I was an educator, especially when I was working in a high-trauma community. I wish these concepts were available to all caretakers and people in social work fields such as education. I am in love with Janina’s model. It is body-based, collaborative, and anti-oppressive. It has helped me develop more compassion for my clients’ parts, my own parts, and family members’ parts too. Personally it made sense to me and clarified reasons for our own behaviour, how I behave with clients sometimes as well. It has also given me a road map to navigate with clients who have deeper issues. I feel more comfortable using the road maps shared to better help my clients evolve, release and grow." What I find most fascinating about Fisher’s book is the way she shows that people who have experienced complex trauma can progress better in therapy when they have a good understanding of their fragmented personality, what caused it, and what sustains it.

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As the subtitle “Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation” indicates, a central theme of the book is the phenomenon of dissociation, which is found in so many survivors of trauma.

No rating – this is a book written for practicing therapists, and as a curious non-professional, it didn’t seem appropriate to attach a rating. The key to providing effective interventions for your clients is to shift your perspective so you can From one of the preeminent experts in the field of trauma and dissociation, Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors imparts a vision of hope and validation to those suffering from complex trauma and the therapists who treat them. Janina Fisher’s exceptional ability to synthesize the best of cutting edge trauma psychotherapies has resulted in a brilliant and unique roadmap for resolving chronic traumatization.” My method focuses on treating the effects of traumatic events, as opposed to treating the event itself, and on managing unsafe and addictive impulses as trauma-driven rather than manipulative and attention-seeking. We show clients how to use mindful observation to develop a relationship with their feelings, their impulses, and their traumatized parts.

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I love the de-pathologizing of trauma symptoms through Janina's IFS-influenced approach. Being very spiritually myself, I have found myself at odds with the diagnostic/ medically influenced view of human behavior as pathological, bad or wrong. IFS and Janina's approach is such a breath of fresh air. In my younger days I was terrified of working with certain diagnosis, ie, BPD. Using this approach is so affirming and gentle, true and real that I now find working with this population easier and so much more effective. Because of this, despite your best efforts you can never treat the root of their challenges: the legacyIt would be best to work on it with a therapeut who is familiarized with this concept but unfortunately they aren't easy to find depending on where you live.

Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors

The hotel is close to Gloucester Road station and within a mile of Kensington Palace, Hyde Park andThis reminds us of a fundamental difference between mental health and other areas of medicine. An operation or pill can work just as well regardless of how well you understand its mechanism. Because trauma lives in the body as well as the mind, traditional talk therapy cannot access the deeply In this training, you will learn exactly how trauma drives survival responses that re-create the felt sense that these are still desperate times requiring desperate measures, leading to impulsive attempts to fight or flee. TIST provides an easier and more effective way of working with any clients who still suffer from these and other effects of trauma. Best of all, TIST also prevents burn-out by decreasing the stress on YOU to “save the day.”