Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists Free Audiobook Download by Onno Van Der Hart,Kathy Steele,Suzette Boon

This book provides a manual for therapists and patients alike to learn how to cope with trauma-related dissociation. It includes many skills training and drills, including how to identify the different aspects of dissociation and what things you can do to help the patient.

When trauma survivors dissociate, they detach from their surroundings and/or the traumatic experience. The person may feel disconnected from self and others, like they are watching the event unfold from a safe place outside of it. The person may also have fragments of memories or feelings that are missing, as well as being unable to experience emotions fully.

Onno van der Hart, Kathy Steele and Suzette Boon guide readers through their different formal models of dissociation: structural dissociation, trauma-related dissociation and self-focused dissociation. Each model is discussed in detail with definitions of key words or phrases that might not be familiar to the reader. They also offer a review of earlier work by Van Der Hart and colleagues to help readers make sense of the various terms and concepts discussed throughout the text. The authors begins with skills training for patients, who are taught how to recognize when they are feeling dissociated and how to sit with that discomfort rather than acting on it. The authors then discuss how therapists can apply these skills in therapy sessions. This review is followed by a

This audiobook is a helpful guide for people struggling with trauma-related dissociation. It covers what this condition is, how it manifests and how to cope with it. The book also provides skills training techniques that individuals can practice in order to manage their emotions, memories and thoughts.

Dissociation is a defense mechanism that was thought to be a normal part of the healing process after trauma. These days, it is recognized as an addiction-like condition that can interfere with relationships and get in the way of working through trauma and healing from its effects. This audiobook walks you through how dissociation impacts post-traumatic stress disorder, people with severe mental illnesses, children with traumas, and people who are just struggling to tolerate difficult emotions and experiences.

This audiobook will help you to understand dissociation, how it can occur and what you can do to cope with the triggers that set off a dissociative episode. It will also give guidance on how to validate your experience.