The Compassionate-Mind Guide to Recovering from Trauma and PTSD: Using Compassion-Focused Therapy to Overcome Flashbacks, Shame, Guilt, and Fear Paperback – Illustrated, January 2, 2013

New book recommended. Easy to digest.

This book helps the reader understand all aspects of trauma. Let's face it, the impact of trauma never leaves us. It is, in it's own way, a disability. However, like with all disabilities, we can learn to live well with it. This workbook teaches one how to live well. It is one of the more comforting books I have read on trauma. It validates the reader's experiences and gives clarity to why each symptom happens. You are not alone and I hope you find in this book what I have.

I gave this book 5 stars because it was written in clear, concise language without watering down the information. There is much to be learned from this book. I recommend it , especially for anyone suffering from shame due to trauma. I plan to re-read it to absorb more information the second time.

This "Compassionate-Mind Guide to Recovery form Trauma & PTSD is a very informative book for me to read & for my continueing to heal from mental & emotional scares that happened to me for various reasons.

The first hundred pages or so are theory -- discussing the nature of PTSD, neuroscience and so forth. The practical exercises are in the final third of the book. This is not so great if you, the reader, are traumatized and have disorganized thinking. It's like if you had a headache and the bottle of aspirin could only be opened after you read the label for two hours.

The self-help, think-your-way-through serious trauma approach presented in this book not only undercuts the gravity of trauma for survivors, but as a tome from alleged mental health practitioners, it's downright irresponsible. Full of watered-down information based on actual psychological information, the authors package what would be good information in a condescending and simplified happy-go-lucky self-help tone, which does nothing to help sufferers. Rather, it treats a serious mental health issue as childish by talking down to readers and being patronizingly simplistic and repetitive, negating the hard work recovering from trauma actually takes. You're just a hop, skip and a compassionate thought away from a cure! That's all it takes! Any book on trauma that suggests the book itself, rather than professional help (other than in passing, afterthought mentions), is all survivors need, demonstrates such poor judgement, it can't be taken seriously. Don't bother with this horrifying book on trauma; read books by authors who really know what they're doing, such as "The Courage To Heal," "The Body Keeps The Score," or "Trauma and Recovery."

Very detailed and a useful tool.

Absolutely brilliant and beautifully written ---accessible and sensitive---should be on every bookshelf, for practitioners and public alike.

a great read-require a therapist who can assist tho........

Deborah Lee et al have written this book with heart. After persevering with the under standing of what happens when bad things happen this clearly written aid supports that knowledge. It will not get rid of the trauma, at least not without some magic from the universe..... But it will give you back some respite in the knowledge that it will get better and it starts with Compassion. So simple but so affective.Thank you so much.

This book is the most helpful and interesting book I have ever read and use it like a bible now. I recommend it to anyone who is having a difficult time to anyone that is interested in just knowing about how your mind works. It really is a book worth getting I think this stuff should be taught in every school .. Fantastic buy !!!!!