Description
Hope and light are on the horizon to help clients overcome the challenges of healing and releasing the pain of relational trauma.
The highly acclaimed Transcending Trauma explores a unique, compassionate, and evidence-based approach to resolving complex and dissociative trauma. In this transformative book Frank Anderson, MD, masterfully details an IFS path to therapy that allows clients to access their inherent capacity for healing – called Self-energy – while also helping them welcome, as opposed to manage, the extreme emotions frequently associated with trauma.
Included are clinical case examples, summary charts, current neuroscience research, and personal stories that will enable your clients to reclaim self-connection, experience self-love, and regain the ability to connect with and love others. Designed with clinicians in mind, this book offers a comprehensive map to complex trauma treatment that will enable readers to:
-Learn how to stay calm and steady in the presence of extreme symptoms
-Discover a different approach to resolving attachment trauma
-Gain confidence when addressing shame, neglect, and dissociation
-Understand the neurobiology of PTSD and dissociation
-Integrate neuroscience-informed therapeutic interventions
-Effectively address medications and common comorbidities
-Incorporate IFS with other models of treatment
Marco Galvan (verified owner) –
I’ve read most of Dr. Anderson’s books and articles, his writing style is easy to follow without talking down to the reader. In his latest book, Dr. Anderson tackles a complex subject with mastery and state-of-the-art information.
A must-read for those interested in Trauma healing
A Masterpiece
Dr. Sarah B Stewart (verified owner) –
Transcending Trauma is well written and clearly describes complex science and lays out neatly the steps to using IFS with trauma-related issues. It has great illustrations and simple instructions while the content remains layered and depthful.
It is really a wonderfully written book and a recent must-read for all trauma therapists, especially those who know IFS.
Amy O. (verified owner) –
Succinct, well informed, and organized direction to therapists utilizing this method. I’m grateful
Amy Banks (verified owner) –
As a psychiatrist who has worked with complex trauma for over 30 years, I found Dr. Anderson’s book an extremely helpful roadmap for the work. Though I have not trained in IFS, there is enough information here to help clinicians navigate the landmines of the treatment relationship and help keep the therapy moving forward towards integration. Sharing his on trauma history throughout gave the book a more personal feeling and allowed me to hear his suggestions and guidance as coming from an integrated professional/personal experience.
Jackie (verified owner) –
Dr. Anderson has penned a clear, important addition to the body of work available on the IFS model of therapy.
Nancy Sowell (verified owner) –
Frank Anderson, MD, has written a book that is insightful and full of information, based on both personal and professional experience. He offers a clear, trauma informed approach that guides the reader through his clinical thought process, and the IFS treatment of complex trauma. The clinical examples added clarification and depth. His personal, conversational writing style made this book easy to read. I highly recommend this book for those who use IFS, and/or anyone who is interested in the IFS treatment approach to complex trauma.
Chris Morrison (verified owner) –
I am a clinical social worker and, although I am not trained in IFS, I am very curious about it’s use for trauma survivors. Dr. Anderson’s description and use of IFS theory in this resource was accessible to me and hopefully for others not trained as IFS clinicians. His intelligent and heartfelt style is very compelling and comes thru in the text.
Nancy L. Morgan (verified owner) –
For nearly 30 years I have worked with adults burdened with pain from the neglect and abuse they experienced in childhood. It is challenging work as trauma survivors’ behaviors are routinely labeled, stigmatized, and pathologized and because those behaviors are often extreme they are also deeply misunderstood. Few know this better than IFS therapist, trainer, and researcher Dr. Anderson. For nearly four decades IFS has offered therapists a non-pathologizing, novel, and compassionate approach to healing trauma, their own and that of their clients. Dr. Anderson’s contribution is a long-awaited addition to the IFS compendium of resources. His book provides valuable information on advances in trauma research, neuroscience, and reminders that one size does not fit all. Dr. Anderson’s message is straightforward. He asks us to meet clients where they are, to know that despite the degree of pain there is also the innate capacity to heal and that this is a journey we take together. His offering is hopeful, informative, insightful, and very much appreciated.
SJ Plone (verified owner) –
As a clinician, it is not always easy to find an author/teacher who offers both ground-breaking clinical expertise along with being personally courageous and deeply compassionate. Frank Anderson offers the reader all of that, and more, with this book.
Elizabeth Clewett (verified owner) –
Dr. Anderson’s explanation of healing developmental trauma is perfectly calibrated for helping professionals AND trauma survivors. While the interpersonal interaction between therapist and client resembles traditional and contemporary models, emerging neuroscience is brilliantly applied in IFS therapy. Anderson balances the distinctive features of IFS and emerging knowledge about the varied origins and impacts of trauma, while carefully navigating clients’ experience of traumatic events from infancy to the present. Invariably, Anderson avoids lengthy twists and turns in clients’ lives, instead synthesizing core challenges and interactions that promote healing. As a practitioner and trauma survivor, I am grateful to learn that therapy can reveal and heal early abandonment and abuse, even late in life. Past time to lay this burden down.
Carmen Jimenez-Pride<span class="a-icon a-profile-verified-badge"><span class="a-profile-verified-text"></span></span> (verified owner) –
As a psychotherapist, this book is a wonderful resource to gain a more in-depth view of working within the IFS model with clients exposed to trauma.
Carol Arshad (verified owner) –
great for finishing dissertation
Lisa Runzo (verified owner) –
This book was extremely helpful in putting IFS into tangible terms for a therapist to bring into the therapy space with clients. The diagrams were awesome for those of us who are more visual, and Dr. Andersons’s vulnerability in sharing his own stories (even the ways he feels that he’s made mistakes with his own clients) gives permission for the therapist to be human and on their own journey in addition to trying to facilitate healing for others. This is a book I will open again and again and again. Thank you!
Elijah Logozar (verified owner) –
I’m too tired to write a detailed review right now. Suffice it to say that this audiobook was worth my time.
Ms. Sue (verified owner) –
Very useful and helpful to the reader
Liz (verified owner) –
Frank Anderson writes in such an engaging style and presents the information in a thoughtful and organized way.