Confessions of a Trauma Therapist: A Memoir of Healing and Transformation

by Mary K. Armstrong

Book Overview

“Trauma therapist Mary K. Armstrong embarks on an illuminating journey into her own secret past and emerges with a renewed sense of personal authenticity and joy in helping others.”
—SYLVIA FRASER, author of My Father’s House: A Memoir of Incest and Healing

“A brilliant, heartbreaking, and inspiring account of a child's tragedy and a woman's persistent growth toward light, knowledge, truth, and strength...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1926645197
• ISBN13: 9781926645193
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: BPS Books
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

An Inside View of Child Sexual Abuse

Mary Armstrong gives readers a tour of the experience of childhood sexual abuse. Based on her own recovered memories, the book clearly shows what goes on in the minds of an abused child during and after the experience. Therapists, victims and other readers will gain new insight to the mental and emotional devastation caused by intimate betrayal. Ms. Armstrong - who is a prominent mental health professional specializing in the field of dissociation and childhood sexual abuse - did not have access to her own memories until years after she became a therapist. She was shocked and horrified to discover that she was just like her patients - a person with a buried past. As memories began to flood into her awareness in middle age, Mary suffered the disorientation, confusion and self-doubt that is so characteristic of the initial phases of recovery. Eventually, however, everything began to make sense to her: her anxiety, her relationship issues, her somatic experiences. As she began to own her own history, she became whole for the first time. Mary details the process of recovery, offering a guide to professionals, sufferers and their families that is informative, reassuring and hopeful. Every reader will gain a new understanding and compassion that can help our society face and heal the plague of childhood abuse. Sarah Chana Radcliffe, Author of "Raise Your Kids without Raising Your Voice" Raise Your Kids Without Raising Your Voice [RAISE YOUR KIDS W/O RAISING YO]Raise Your Kids Without Raising Your Voice