Description
In PTSD: Horror in the Mind, Mark Tyrrell tells stories of many case studies from his long experience of treating post-traumatic stress disorder. You’ll learn how PTSD presents, how it affects people, how to test for it and how to test that it’s gone. Mark also describes what he sees as being the ethical way to treat PTSD without causing additional distress for the client. You’ll hear how he has used the same approach to help survivors of rape and attempted murder, to people who’ve witnessed unspeakable death and destruction. He examines popular treatment models for PTSD including CID, EMDR, EFT and the Rewind Technique and describes what he considers the best approach. This in-depth introduction is followed by 9 articles on PTSD from his blog:
1) Is your client traumatized?
2) Could it be PTSD?
3) Is it crucial to identify the initial event that created a trauma pattern?
4) Why there’s no need to relive the trauma all over again
5) Why I never have my clients relive their traumatic experiences
6) Why PTSD and phobias are a case of bad hypnosis
7) Is trauma locking your client in depression?
8) Helping your client readjust to life after trauma
9) Encouraging post-traumatic growth in your client.
So many treatment modalities for PTSD require the patient to relive the trauma, either extensively or in part. In many cases, this can lead to re-traumatizing the individual. Mark’s unique approach is much gentler, and more humane than running the risk of re-traumatic exposure.
Thank you for the information that you provided in this book. I hope things turned out well for the clients after the therapy sessions
Mark Tyrrell is ahead of his time and completely makes PTSD an understandable State of Mind and how someone is locked into it. He also has incredible skill on guiding people out and back into life. This book is for anyone who is suffering themselves or knows someone who is suffering. Best book I’ve read on the subject
I am a big fan of Mark Tyrell’s work and very interested in the Rewind process. His YouTube videos are always interesting!
The book was concise and used helpful examples of client issues and the approach to diagnosis and therapy
Highly recommend