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Who You Were Before Trauma: The Healing Power of Imagination for Trauma Survivors
Contributor(s): Reddemann, Luise (Author)
ISBN: 1615196161     ISBN-13: 9781615196166
Publisher: Experiment
OUR PRICE:   $15.26  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: May 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Psychopathology - Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (ptsd)
- Medical | Mental Health
- Psychology | Mental Health
Dewey: 616.852
LCCN: 2020010277
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.75 lbs) 256 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
Introducing a proven, pioneering program that empowers trauma survivors to take control of their recovery through imaginative exercises

Over the last thirty-five years, our understanding of trauma has dramatically changed. We now know that most people live through at least one traumatic event--which can cause disorders that range from depression, addiction, and anxiety, to cardiovascular disease and diabetes. But when leading German psychotherapist Luise Reddemann became head of a psychosomatic clinic in 1985, many doctors were routinely dismissive of patients' trauma.

Dr. Reddemann has devoted her career to this question: How can survivors of complex trauma and PTSD heal--and even help themselves to heal? In Who You Were Before Trauma, she presents her groundbreaking method, along with positive therapeutic strategies, to therapists and patients alike. Psychodynamic Imaginative Trauma Therapy (PITT) incorporates imagination work at every stage of the three-phase trauma therapy model:

  1. Establish safety and stabilization
  2. Come to terms with traumatic memories
  3. Integrate and reconnect with others.
By guiding patients to unearth their buried strengths, envision an inner refuge, evoke helpful guiding figures, and ultimately build an "internal counterweight" to their trauma, Reddemann's approach avoids the counterproductive dynamic where the therapist becomes the patient's only source of comfort. This definitive trauma resource shows the way to empower survivors--by making them true partners in their recovery.

Contributor Bio(s): Reddemann, Luise: - Luise Reddemann, PhD, is a leading psychotherapist in Germany with over three decades of trauma therapy experience. For nearly twenty years, she led the Clinic for Psychotherapeutic and Psychosomatic Medicine in Bielefeld, where she developed Psychodynamic Imaginative Trauma Therapy (PITT). She holds an honorary professorship at the University of Klagenfurt.