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Healing Invisible Wounds : Paths to Hope and Recovery in a Violent World by Richard F. Mollica (2008, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherVanderbilt University Press
ISBN-100826516416
ISBN-139780826516411
eBay Product ID (ePID)71220921
Product Key Features
Number of Pages288 Pages
Publication NameHealing Invisible Wounds : Paths to Hope and Recovery in a Violent World
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2008
SubjectHuman Rights, International Relations / General, Mental Health, Rhetoric, Violence in Society, Psychopathology / Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (Ptsd)
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Language Arts & Disciplines, Social Science, Psychology
AuthorRichard F. Mollica
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight15.5 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2008-033210
ReviewsThe stories recounted here bear eloquent and often moving testimony to the resilience of human beings. -- The Most Reverend Desmond M. Tutu, "The reader closes this book with a renewed appreciation of the power of individuals to heal themselves." -- The Lancet, The reader closes this book with a renewed appreciation of the power of individuals to heal themselves. -- The Lancet, "The reader closes this book with a renewed appreciation of the power of individuals to heal themselves." - The Lancet, "The stories recounted here bear eloquent and often moving testimony to the resilience of human beings." -- The Most Reverend Desmond M. Tutu, The reader closes this book with a renewed appreciation of the power of individuals to heal themselves. --The Lancet, "Mollica provides a wealth of ethnographic and clinical evidence that suggests the human capacity to heal is innate-that the 'survival instinct' extends beyond the physical to include the psychological as well. He enables us to see how recovery from 'traumatic life events' needs to be viewed primarily as a 'mystery' to be listened to and explored, rather than solely as a 'problem' to be identified and solved. Healing involves a quest for meaning-with all of its emotional, cultural, religious, spiritual and existential attendants-even when bio-chemical reactions are also operative." - Neil Boothby , Director of the Program on Forced Migration and Health at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, "Mollica provides a wealth of ethnographic and clinical evidence that suggests the human capacity to heal is innate--that the 'survival instinct' extends beyond the physical to include the psychological as well. He enables us to see how recovery from 'traumatic life events' needs to be viewed primarily as a 'mystery' to be listened to and explored, rather than solely as a 'problem' to be identified and solved. Healing involves a quest for meaning--with all of its emotional, cultural, religious, spiritual and existential attendants--even when bio-chemical reactions are also operative." -- Neil Boothby , Director of the Program on Forced Migration and Health at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, The stories recounted here bear eloquent and often moving testimony to the resilience of human beings. The Most Reverend Desmond M. Tutu, The reader closes this book with a renewed appreciation of the power of individuals to heal themselves. The Lancet, "The stories recounted here bear eloquent and often moving testimony to the resilience of human beings." - The Most Reverend Desmond M. Tutu
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal616.85/21
SynopsisIn these personal reflections on his thirty years of clinical work with victims of genocide, torture, and abuse in the United States, Cambodia, Bosnia, and other parts of the world, Richard Mollica describes the surprising capacity of traumatized people to heal themselves. Healing Invisible Wounds reveals how trauma survivors, through the telling of their stories, teach all of us how to deal with the tragic events of everyday life. Mollica's important discovery that humiliation--an instrument of violence that also leads to anger and despair--can be transformed through his therapeutic project into solace and redemption is a remarkable new contribution to survivors and clinicians. This book reveals how in every society we have to move away from viewing trauma survivors as "broken people" and "outcasts" to seeing them as courageous people actively contributing to larger social goals. When violence occurs, there is damage not only to individuals but to entire societies, and to the world. Through the journey of self-healing that survivors make, they enable the rest of us not only as individuals but as entire communities to recover from injury in a violent world.
LC Classification NumberRC451.4.P57M65 2009
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