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As today's workplace becomes increasingly more competitive, knowing how to behave can make the difference between getting ahead and getting left behind. In
The Etiquette Advantage in Business, 2nd Edition, etiquette authorities
Peggy Post and
Peter Post provide you with the all-important tools for building solid, productive relationships with your business associates -- relationships that will help propel you and your company straight to the top.
In this completely revised and updated edition, which includes three new chapters on ethics, table manners, and electronic communication, the Posts show you how to handle both everyday and unusual situations that are essential to professional and personal success -- from resolving business conflicts with ease and grace to getting along with your boss and coworkers; from making long-lasting contacts to winning clients and closing deals. They also offer up-to-date guidance on pressing issues such as harassment in the workplace, worker privacy, e-mail dos and don'ts, and knowing how and when to shoulder blame.
Written for business workers of all types and backgrounds,
The Etiquette Advantage in Business remains the definitive resource for timeless advice on business entertaining, written communication, dressing appropriately for any business occasion, conventions and trade shows, job searches and interviews, gift-giving, and overseas travel.
No matter the situation in which you find yourself, the Posts will give you the confidence to meet the challenges of the work world with confidence and poise -- because today, more than ever, good manners mean good business.
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The Etiquette Advantage in Business.......2007-02-19
This book is a must read for anyone graduating from school and headed into business. It gives outstanding advice on everything from cell phone etiquette, e-mail etiquette, cubicle farm etiquette, table manners, the interview process, thank you's, etc. It's a good read, and an outstanding reference book to have in one's library.
Great reference tool.......2007-01-04
Ever have that 1 question on 'how to' conduct yourself in a business situation? This book has the answers and the guidance on 'what to do.' Even the most experienced professional comes across a business situation question ... it's nice to have the answer before the situation occurs!
Book everyone should read.......2006-06-27
This is wonderful book explaining what etiquette is really about. One will learn everything -- from how to dress, table manners, office setup, how to print business cards to how to prepare resume. I would recommend to everyone to read it regardless if they are working or not. While I do not agree with some of the rules regarding "who pays for lunch" - I would say that this is a book everyone should read and understand because it will improve their interactions with others.
Just what I thought it would offer for today's Professional.......2006-03-25
Covered all of the bases in today's professional enviornment
A new resource for all new graduates.......2005-10-14
The Etiquette Advantage in Business is just the thing for the newly hired recent graduate who wants to be sure he or she is doing the right and considerate thing. It is a great "review" for older employees who want to check whether their skills are current. Excellent material, clearly written. A pleasure to read!
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This volume provides the definitive guide to Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), the psychotherapeutic approach developed by Francine Shapiro. EMDR is one of the most widely investigated treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder, and many other applications are also being explored. To keep up with this growing body of knowledge, the second edition has been revised to incorporate current neurobiological data, findings from controlled clinical studies, and literature on emerging clinical applications. Chapters provide background on EMDR's development, theoretical constructs, and possible underlying mechanisms, and present updated protocols and procedures for working with adults and children with a range of presenting problems. Among the many clinical populations for whom the material in this volume has been seen as applicable are survivors of sexual abuse, crime, and combat, as well as sufferers of phobias and other experientially based disorders. Detailed descriptions and transcripts guide the clinician through every stage of therapeutic treatment, from client selection to the administration of EMDR and its integration within a comprehensive treatment plan
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The Standard Still Works.......2007-05-17
This restatement of Francine Shapiro's standard overview of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)outlines the standard protocols for this proven treatment method. The methods, theory, and failsafe procedures are carefully explained for clinician practitioners. Careful liability reduction checks are examined and encouraged throughout the manual. This book alone is not a substitute for training in EMDR, yet will assist the new and veteran EMDR practitioner in remaining competernt in the skills and therory. I keep it handy for frequent review.
Indispensible Text for EMDR.......2007-01-06
This book is a companion to the live course, the foundation for EMDR. A must have text if you are a therapist using this modality.
Promising intervention but reservations from an EMDR client.......2004-08-21
EMDR may be an excellent form of overcoming trauma, and the research tends to suggest it does, although if you read the literature in a disinterested way, you will find there are many mixed reports on study results. Some find EMDR equal to or better than Cog/Beh Therapy intervention; some find it better; some find it not as effective. As someone who has conducted experimental research AND has undergone EMDR for trauma, I wish to point out several issues that should be addressed, even for true believers. First, EMDR is a perfect intervention for a technological age: after all, don't all our life's problems supposedly have a technological solution. Our culture says so, but of course, history tells us otherwise. Spiritual meaning, social integration, a personal credo, culture and religion still appear to be the ingredients that hold us together..or as Paul Tillich says, "Our ground of being." Technology may be helpful but it is ultimately ancillary. Of course, those who suffer from trauma may require immediate relief, and if EMDR can reduce suffering efficiently and quickly, that's fine. I had about 10 EMDR sessions and they helped me immensely. HOWEVER, that being said, one must look a bit further. First, one must consider the individual client him/herself. EMDR helps us return to a traumatic event, see it more objectively, and hopefully allows us to use our reasoning faculties which may not have been in play during such events owing to stress, shock, immaturity, ignorance, and so forth. However, I believe we all have varied levels of experiencing or "reliving" memory. Some can visualize quite easily and can "see" the experience as vividly, even more vividly than the true life one. In keeping with Gardner's idea of "multiple intelligences," we should consider that different individuals have different "intelligences" in reconstructing or reliving events. Furthermore, we should consider that individuals have varying degrees in their ability to make associations. While a trauma may be a single event or several similar events, in all likelihood they have developed as narrative themes that compose the self-concept the client has. The better a client can connect the trauma to such themes, the more holistic the effect. A good EMDR clinician can encourage this reconstruction, but one should be aware that we have different cognitive styles.
Second, some of us have more entry into traumatic events than others. This may be attributable to personality traits such as openness to self-disclosure, and environmental influences of trust, and/or varying levels of general repression of uncomfortable (let alone traumatic) thoughts and events. So, one size may not fit all.
Another important variable that should be examined by practitioners/researchers is the background of the therapist. For example, since much of EMDR is used to uncover traumatic childhood events, I believe it is important that the therapist have a background in treating children--at least to some minimal level. For, as the client recalls events from childhood, he/she is recalling them as a child and may be in a child-like state during the process. Therefore, the therapist must be able to talk to the client as a child (not the inner child because EMDR, if it works for childood trauma, brings the inner child "outward." Finally, the therapist must sense when the client is "ready" for the treatment. The trauma may be known, but the ability for the client to address the trauma in a safe and secure environment may take time to establish and nurture. I do not see the metaphor of the mind as a computer. If we begin to think that way, our society is in very big trouble. Much of our culture already does. In conclusion, this method should not be viewed as a mere technique, but like any intervention for change, as a technique largely dependent on the individual therapist/client. I happen to have a very rich sensory life. I can recall things to the degree that after the recollection, I may be confused whether it was truly a recollection or whether I was transported by a time machine; I have a good grasp of reality, but this personal ability of mine certainly had a hand in the success of what I went through.
And finally, about the eye movement part, the jury is still out. There have been few studies comparing EMDR with and without the eye movements. Studies regarding whether they are necessary to the process have not been highly encouraging. I could go on, but I think I'd rather save what I have for a more extensive article for which I can be paid--just as the EMDR industry is paid for its services.
Recommend!.......2004-04-12
Easy to read and helpful for understanding the process of EMDR. I would have to agree with the previous reviewer Laura M that PEACEFUL HEART : A Woman's Journey to Healing is a must-read. Aimee Jo Martin's story clearly illustrates and details her journey with successful EMDR treatments. Quite powerful if you want to really see how effective EMDR can be.
The EMDR Text.......2001-08-03
Great book! If you practice EMDR, you need to invest in this book.
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Most popular books about the Stalin era feature the big names and a firm narrative shape: Robert Conquest's The Great Terror; Alan Bullock's Hitler and Stalin. Some books yield their revelations at a glance, like the stunning The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia.
But scholar Sheila Fitzpatrick is famous for letting the common people and the facts speak for themselves, in all their complexity. Her new book on Soviet life in the 1930s--based on research in newly opened archives--does for urbanites what her Heldt Prizewinning Stalin's Peasants did for rural victims. The many witnesses in this fascinating horror story cast doubt on Stalin's notorious 1935 slogan "Life has become better, comrades; life has become more cheerful."
A comment made by a victim of Ivan the Terrible would be more apt: "We Russians don't need to eat; we eat one another and this satisfies us." Famine, caused by bad weather and worse policies, plagued the decade, and life became a chronic struggle to wrest crumbs from an incompetent bureaucracy. Stalin's sly methods of deflecting blame from the state onto allegedly disloyal citizens provoked orgies of denunciation (which could backfire on denouncers). A mad starch factory director forbade comrades to get shaves or haircuts at home--it would have been disloyal to the factory's hairdresser. One kid, Pavlik Morozov, reported his father for grain hoarding in 1937, was murdered by relatives, and became a national hero to kids. Andrei Sakharov's future spouse Elena Bonner was shocked at her 9-year-old brother's response to his father's arrest: "Look what these enemies of the people are like--some of them even pretend to be fathers." The celebrated Moscow Children's Theater put on The Squealer, a drama strikingly like Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront.
Fitzpatrick gives a sense of what it really was like to live under the satanic circus master Stalin: it was beyond Kafka, and it was bloody hard work. --Tim Appelo
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Here is a pioneering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by a leading authority on modern Russian history. Focusing on the urban population, Fitzpatrick depicts a world of privation, overcrowding, endless lines, and broken homes, in which the regime's promises of future socialist abundance rang hollowly. We read of a government bureaucracy that often turned life into a nightmare, and of how ordinary citizens tried to circumvent it. We also read of the secret police, whose constant surveillance was endemic at this time, and the waves of terror, like the Great Purges of 1937, which periodically cast society into turmoil.
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Everyday life and the state under Stalin.......2007-04-06
Sheila Fitzpatrick, specialist in the Stalin period of the USSR, has written a counterpart to her history of peasants and their lives in this era (Stalin's Peasants: Resistance and Survival in the Russian Village after Collectivization). Here, in "Everyday Stalinism", she chronicles the urban experience of life under Stalin during the 1930s, with all its paranoia, hardship and oddities.
The book is focused in particular on the relationship of daily life and the state, with relatively little attention for cultural history. However, making much use of the Harvard Project interviews with Soviet citizens from this period, she offers a compelling and fascinating view into the attitude of Soviet citizens towards the state, towards Stalin, and towards each other. Much more than just a tale of survival under threat of secret police, Fitzpatrick shows how people got by in terms of getting consumer goods, getting ahead, and getting even. Of course the Great Purges are given due attention, but what is particularly interesting is that in this book we see those events, as well as the earlier show trials, from the bottom up: not the political history of Stalin eliminating his enemies, but a struggle for power between the Party elites (largely received with disinterest by the general populace), and subsequently a series of rapid repressive maneouvres that descend onto the unsuspecting middle level.
Fitzpatrick pays excellent attention also to social policy and what effect this had on women, social and ethnic minorities, and so on. The USSR as an "affirmative action empire" has been well chronicled: The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939 (Wilder House Series in Politics, History, and Culture). Nevertheless, Fitzpatrick's overview is clear and cogent, and we get also get a good idea of the immense advances in literacy, cultural knowledge and general outlook that were made in roughly the period 1927-1937. Whereas in 1926 only 57% of those aged between 9 and 49 were literate, in 1939 81% of the whole population was literate. Similarly, the entire mass of the population learned basic culture such as appreciating poetry, washing regularly, using soap and towels, not leaving cigarette butts everywhere and not spitting on the floor, etc.
Striking is the amount of critical letters and appeals that people kept sending to Party and Politburo leaders in the (often, but not always vain) hope of redress of grievances or changes in policy. This was already a set tradition dating back to Czarist times, but was maintained during the Revolution and post-Revolutionary period in the form of public debate in leftist papers and letters to Lenin (see Voices of Revolution, 1917). This gives us a good indication however of the public opinion in the Stalinist days, to which Fitzpatrick usefully adds the NKVD reports of overheard conversations and the like. This surprisingly indicates that skepticism towards Stalin himself as well as the general system was reasonably widespread, despite the "cult of the personality".
Overall, this is a well written and interesting history of urban life in the Soviet Union during the 1930s. It must be emphasized though (as this is not directly apparent from the book description) that it only deals with urban life, and only the 1930s. Neither WWII nor the post-War Stalinist period is discussed.
Must read.......2007-02-13
If you have an interest in Stalin and the 1930's, which include the purges, this book is a must for you. For the most part I study the Military and Political history of the early Soviet Union and I had this book on my shelf for years before I finally decided to read it. But once I began I was amazed at myself that I had waited so long to finally dive into this book! The author has really done her research and it shows!
The reader will get a much better and broader understanding of what life was like in the 1930's and how a new state was coming into its own. Why certain groups or 'classes' were being targeted by the state and what happened to them. How some changed their entire lives just to get away from the OGPU and later NKVD. And interestingly enough the policies implemented by the state worked against making it a safer place. As they aggravated one group after another through trials and forced movements they made enemies where in the past there might not have been any. It began to dawn on the government that these people would only seek vengeance once they were freed from punishment and it also created the idea that these people would be enemies for life. This, to a certain extent, explains why during the "Great Purge" which started in 1937 those released from GULag camps or special settlements, etc, were once again picked up and tried and sent to either prison or were executed.
The examples the author draws upon are an excellent representation of the time period and people's thoughts recount what they felt and desired while living through this turbulent, to say the least, decade. The one aspect of the Stalinist period that should be kept in mind, and appears throughout the book, is that no one was really safe in this time. From Communist officials who were being denounced by the hundreds to the regular man on the street who could be denounced because his apartment was bigger than his neighbors, or NKVD officials, one of whom a week before committing suicide visited and drank with the families of people who were denounced and he had to arrest and lastly even to Stalin's inner circle which witnessed the likes of Kaganovich losing his brother and Molotov his wife. A great contribution to the literature on Soviet Union under Stalin!
Impressed so far.......2007-02-11
Clearly it is well researched and (notwithstanding the author's Introduction) cuts through a lot of the politicised waffle that tends to accompany other books dealing with this period. You get an idea of the human and personal dynamics that were operating at the time. In short, the insight gained is sometimes surprising even when you think you know a lot about this period of history, i.e. the October Revolution and socialist construction. Only half way through the book as a matter of fact but you can tell from the outset that what you're reading is a study of substance that genuinely serves to inform the reader. I would say the author is one who is prepared to let facts speak for themselves.
Clear, concise, filled with information.......2006-08-10
This is a good, necessary, and essential book. It is compact and precise. Its aim is to provide massive information about Stalinist Soviet Union in the 1930s. It does so not by the analysis of high politics or the significant political events, but through a depiction of everyday life of urban inhabitants of the Soviet Union during these years.
Fitzpatrick tries to remain neutral, but so many of the disastorous conditions she records were clearly brought on by the Stalin bureaucracy's fear, its fear of workers, its fear of the intellectuals, its fear of those who held positions under Tsarism, its fear of those who had belonged to opposition factions in the Communist party, and fear of itself.
Whether what she provides is "new" is irrelevant except to the academically twisted. What she does is provide the realities of life in the USSR in those years as personally experienced whether in the cold, rancorous, barracks and apartments filled with four or five families of the plebian cities, or the luxurious dachas of the rising bureaucracy.
The strength of this book is its compactness and clarity and its lack of digressions. Fitzpatrick produces a very high amount of understandable information per page.
The one weaknesses of the book is that in order to do this, she tends to assume the reader's knowledge of Soviet history in the late 1920s and early 30s, particularly, "the cultural revolution," though many, especially popular, readers may know little or nothing about this. Perhaps this just invites the reader to explore the work of Fitzpatrick and her colleagues on these questions.
Nothing very much "new". .......2006-06-27
Professor Fitzpatrick has chosen to write a History of Stalin's Soviet Union during the 1930s (that is, at the height of the Great Purges) by focusing on doings at the private life sphere of common Soviet citizens of the time. Problem is, after we have read the book, we realize we've been told about the same old issues: de-kulakization, collectivization, shortages, queues, Yezhov, social mobility through the Party apparatus. The problem being, perhaps, that the whole book was based on a flimsy foundation, that of the opposition between the "private" & the "public" sphere, when actually, in the early Soviet Union, there was no "private" sphere at all, private life merged with public life entirely - something Professor Fitzpatrick acknowledge at the conclusions, but fails to draw the conclusion that the opposition between the private and the public is an historical construction, not an ontology. Therefore the book is informed and readable, but offers nothing that is altogether new.
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In a work of encyclopedic scope, International Trotskyism, 1929–1985 is sure to become the definitive reference work on a movement that has had a significant impact on the political culture of countries in every part of the world for more than half a century.
Renowned scholar Robert J. Alexander has amassed, from disparate sources, an unprecedented amount of primary and secondary material to provide a documentary history of the origins, development, and nature of the Trotskyist movement around the world. Drawing on interviews and correspondence with Trotskyists, newspaper reports and pamphlets, historical writings including the annotated writings of Trotsky in both English and French, historical memoirs of Trotskyist leaders, and documents of the Fourth International, Alexander recounts the history of the movement since Trotsky’s exile from the Soviet Union in 1929.
Organized alphabetically in a double-column, country-by-country format this book charts the formation and growth of Trotskyism in more than sixty-five countries, providing biographic information about its most influential leaders, detailed accounts of Trotsky’s personal involvement in the development of the movement in each country, and thorough reports of its various factions and splits. Multiple chapters are reserved for countries where the movement was more active or fully developed and various chapters are organized around crucial thematic issues, such as the Fourth International. The chapters are followed by extensive name, organization, publication, and subject indexes, which provide optimal access to the wealth of information contained in the main body of the work.
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Obscure topic, but worthwhile if you need it.......2004-04-26
Any history or politics student coming clean to the multitude of groupings that make up Leon Trotsky's latter-day followers will welcome this book, as it gives a broadly correct overview of all the various squabbling outfits and how they all relate to each other. On a micro level the book falls down from time to time: too many names are mis-spelt ("Colin" instead of Corin Redgrave, "Paul" instead of Hall Greenland, to name just two examples out of dozens), and some of the explanations for the positions of the groups are too hastily wrapped up by a quick review of a sect's newspaper headlines. On the other hand, many of these outfits have soldiered on with a mere handful of members, and while a comprehensive account has to acknowledge their existence, their relevance is often so minor that a cursory glance is probably more than enough. So, on balance, this is a solid overview - especially in those areas where Alexander is more comfortable - such as the US and Latin America.
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LeMay was a terrifying, complex, and brilliant general. In World War II, he ordered the firebombing of Tokyo and was in charge when were Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He was responsible for tens of thousands of civilian deaths a fact he liked to celebrate by smoking Cuban cigars. But LeMay was also the man who single-handedly transformed the American air force from a ramshackle team of poorly-trained and badly equipped pilots into one of the fiercest and most efficient weapons of the war. Over the last decades, most U.S. military missions were carried out entirely through the employment of the air force--this is LeMay's legacy. Packed with breathtaking battles in the air and inspiring leadership tactics on the ground, LeMay will keep readers on their edge of their seats.
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Concise, objective, overdue biography of controversial, influential figure.......2007-07-07
Considering Curtis LeMay's long-term influence on air power (from before WW II into the early Vietnam era), it is astonishing that there has only been one prior biography: Thomas Coffey's Iron Eagle (1986). This entry in the Great Generals series therefore is the first biography since LeMay's death in 1990.
The author clearly knows his subject. He has produced a concise, objective study of one of the most controversial military figures of the 20th century, and one of the most significant. Tillman examines LeMay's early life and career, then traces his evolution from the young commander whose decisions helped speed the end of the Pacific War into the "caveman in a bomber", excoriated by the Left even while he kept the Cold War "frosty" rather than "hot."
Readers looking for the story behind the impassive face will have to wait for a more comprehensive treatment. The author's charter apparently was to describe LeMay's leadership philosophy and draw comparisons useful to current managers, as do the other installments in the series. In that regard, Tillman has accomplished his mission: a feat of which LeMay himself would have approved.
A Quick and Dirty Overview .......2007-06-30
This book is a quick and dirty overview of the life and career of Curtis E. LeMay. The biography is rather thin and it hits only the highlights of the general's life. All the books in this series are on the short side and serve more as brief introductions to their subjects than authoritative accounts. There is only so much Tillman can do in the space that he has available and given the constraints he faces, he does a good job. Tillman is a sympathetic biographer and does an exceptional job of explaining LeMay's involvement in the Berlin Airlift. Previous biographers have given this topic little attention. This approach, though, leads Tillman astray when he reaches LeMay's tenure as Chief-of-Staff of the USAF during the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations. Like previous LeMay biographers, Tillman is as dismissive of the national strategies and foreign policies of these administrations as was LeMay. His explanation of these different ideas and approaches is simplistic at best. He is particularly rough on Secretary of Defense Robert S. MacNamara, making the former executive at the Ford Motor Company look at various times as either an incompetent or as a black-and-white villain.
It is clear that Tillman likes his subject, and there is much to admire in Curtis E. LeMay as a professional, a leader, and as a man. Tillman, however, has a difficult time developing the general's complex personality. There was good deal more to him than his gruff exterior. Despite his "bomb `em back into the stone age" reputation, LeMay had a powerful understanding of the bleak realities of what war really was. He was fully aware he was sending off men to kill and be killed, and he was alert to the real damage that they would suffer one way or another. He rarely got romantic about the business of war, which made him all the more human and determined to get results. Despite the caliber of Tillman's biography, the best book on LeMay remains the general's own memoirs. If you can get to a library, it is a good read. Otherwise, this book is pretty good too.
I wanted more than this book could give me.......2007-05-28
If the Cold War could be wrapped up into one person it would be Curtis LeMay. The U.S. Air Force's Strategic Air Command (SAC) was LeMay and LeMay was SAC. I knew the History Channel facts about Lemay, but I wanted to know more. Unfortunately this book left me wanting. At only 191 small pages, it was tough to really get into deep historical research or analysis for a figure as large and important as LeMay.
I got the feeling the author was just cranking the book out. It did have the feel of a cliff notes or a term paper. There was noting really wrong with the book, but there was nothing that great about it either. LeMay comes across flat and the book lacks the tactile feel that makes great biographies.
The author is very pro-airpower and never really dives into the great political/military dissent around LeMay and his views. I thought that maybe 15 years after the Cold War ended, enough time had past for someone to give LeMay a fresh look, but this book never got there. I will keep searching for a better LeMay bio.
A Solidly Researched Account by a Masterful Historian.......2007-02-14
Barrett Tillman's LeMay is a welcome addition to military aviation literature. Rooted in extensive research, gracefully written, and cogently argued, it places LeMay in a far richer and thoughtful context than the one-dimensional cigar-chomping, firestrom-triggering, finger-on-the-nuclear-trigger caricature of post-Dr. Strangelove, post-Vietnam sensibility. Tillman ranges widely across LeMay's life, relating it to key developments in military aviation, technology, world events, national strategy, and the political and social environment of the times. Nuanced, polished, and engrossing, it is must-read for anyone interested in the development of American air power and the role of this complex and fascinating man, one of the "Great Captains" of air warfare.
A Term Paper Biography.......2007-01-25
This is a kind of Cliff Notes biography, almost like a term paper. The dry compression of the story may be that Tillman had little raw material to work with beyond bare facts, or dry compression may be the aim of the editors of the Great Generals series. Either way, there's precious little to give reader a sense of what LeMay was truly like as a human being. His greatness as an Air Force leader does not appear to be at all in question, but his cited opinions about the Cuban missile crisis and the Vietnam war demonstrate vividly the wisdom of keeping control of the military in civilian hands, even when they make a hash of things. Individuals such as LeMay with little or no use for nuance and shades of opinion and behavior are dangerous if they have fingers on a nuclear trigger. The book would have been improved if an editor had read it critically with a copy of "The Elements of Style" at hand and an eye for such distinctions as the difference between "prejudice" and "bias," which apparently escape Mr. Tillman.
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From prominent authorities in the field, the revised and expanded second edition of this acclaimed work is an essential resource for anyone providing treatment services or conducting research in the area of trauma and PTSD. The volume reviews the breadth of current knowledge about trauma assessment and provides clear, up-to-date recommendations for practice. Coverage encompasses the uses of standardized measures, clinical procedures, epidemiological methods, and projective techniques, as well as approaches to evaluating specific survivor populations. Existing chapters have been fully rewritten and seven entirely new chapters added, addressing recent developments in classification; emerging applications of neuroimaging and pharmacological probes; legal and forensic issues in assessment; assessment of comorbid PTSD and substance abuse; and effects of trauma on physical health.
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In Making Sense of War, Amir Weiner reconceptualizes the entire historical experience of the Soviet Union from a new perspective, that of World War II. Breaking with the conventional interpretation that views World War II as a post-revolutionary addendum, Weiner situates this event at the crux of the development of the Soviet--not just the Stalinist--system. Through a richly detailed look at Soviet society as a whole, and at one Ukrainian region in particular, the author shows how World War II came to define the ways in which members of the political elite as well as ordinary citizens viewed the world and acted upon their beliefs and ideologies.
The book explores the creation of the myth of the war against the historiography of modern schemes for social engineering, the Holocaust, ethnic deportations, collaboration, and postwar settlements. For communist true believers, World War II was the purgatory of the revolution, the final cleansing of Soviet society of the remaining elusive "human weeds" who intruded upon socialist harmony, and it brought the polity to the brink of communism. Those ridden with doubts turned to the war as a redemption for past wrongs of the regime, while others hoped it would be the death blow to an evil enterprise. For all, it was the Armageddon of the Bolshevik Revolution. The result of Weiner's inquiry is a bold, compelling new picture of a Soviet Union both reinforced and enfeebled by the experience of total war.
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Thoroughly researched but ultimately unsatisfying.......2005-06-16
That Making Sense of War has been extensively researched is clear. For anyone interested in the Ukrainian borderlands, the book should be considered an invaluable resource. For anyone else, its value is, to put it generously, questionable.
Research should be drawn upon to support, reinforce, and develop an overarching thesis -- or so, at least, a reader might expect from a work of history. Reading Weiner's book, however, is like reading two entirely separate works: the first an exhaustively detailed exegesis of Weiner's archival research; the second a treatise on ill-defined concepts such as "Soviet," "totalitarian," and "modernity" that bears very little connection to his sources.
The archival material he draws upon often undercuts his arguments, especially his dogged attempt to see everything in black and white terms that smack of the Cold War historiographic tradition, a rather blunt tool for analysis. He depends greatly on Hannah Arendt, whose contributions to the field are vast but, alas, somewhat outdated.
Weiner owes a great debt to the current great lights of Soviet history, namely Sheila Fitzpatrick and Stephen Kotkin, in the selection of his topic: how ordinary people, surrounded by omnipresent "Soviet doctrine" created within its strictures space to live their lives -- to adhere,to dissent, to slip between the cracks. It's a fascinating research program, and an application of this approach to the so-called "Great Patriotic War" has the potential to be a brilliant book.
Unfortunately, this is not that book. While Kotkin and Fitzpatrick used their studies of "life on the ground" to show how being "Soviet" was a shifting, multivalent concept, Weiner's study takes his data and applies a monolithic understanding of being "Soviet" or "modern" or "totalitarian" that is as lacking in relevance as it is in nuance. In its best moments, the book is either highly derivative or utterly banal; in its worst moments, it proves well nigh unreadable.
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An important uneven work........2001-06-23
More than one in eight Soviets died during the second world war. That this was an incredibly traumatic event has been apparent to all for decades. But what did this experience mean to the post-war Soviet Union in terms of its ideology, its guiding principles and its ultimate fate? In this book Amir Weiner argues that most historians have paid little attention to this question. Concentrating on the Vinnytsia region in the Ukraine, Weiner argues that the war was key to a new burst of Communist fanaticism, that it appeared as a vindicating Armageddon. It reinforced the Soviet's excisionary policies, its totalitarian quest for purity, its increasing belief that its enemies were irredeemable. In the first part he looks at how the Soviets emphasized military service in the post-war party and purged it of the passive and the non-combatant. In the second party Weiner emphasizes the Soviet obsession with purity by looking at first the campaign against Ukrainian nationalists, then the Jews. In the final part he discusses the failure of the Ukrainian Nationalists to convince their compatriots to follow them, and how in the postwar period the idea of a "Soviet Ukraine" got general acceptance.
The result is an important, uneven, book. The best part of the book is the third part in which Weiner discusses the failure of Ukrainian nationalists and the internalization and triumph among Eastern Ukrainians of a Soviet Ukraine nationalism. The pages on Ukrainian Integral Nationalism are grimly amusing as nationalist intellectuals appear wildly out of their depth demanding ethnic cleansing and permanent strife against Russians, Jews, and Poles. (In May and June 1943 several thousand Poles were murdered in the Rivne region alone. The Poles soon responded in kind.) Also interesting is the disillusion of the nationalists as Eastern Ukrainians did not come up to their expectations. Ukrainians in the pre-1939 Soviet Union did not share the nationalist's hatred for Russians, did not define themselves as Ukrainians oppressed by Russians, became increasingly less and less religious, and notwithstanding the horrors of the famine in 1932-1933 were not even unequivocally opposed to collective farms. (The Nationalists ended up arguing that what should be done with the collective should be left to the peasants.) There follows a nuanced account of the Holocaust in the Ukraine, which shows the spectrum from assistance to anti-Semitism in a context of merciless terror. This leads to the final chapter in which Weiner discusses how Ukrainians internalized Soviet ideology in the context of a Soviet Ukraine nation. Trying to discuss Soviet popular opinion as opposed to Soviet government propaganda about that opinion is not easy. Weiner's account is not perfect, but it is fruitful. There is a discussion of the iconography of the liberated Ukraine. There is a less successful attempt to discuss popular reaction to the Doctor's Plot from a sample of 40 letters to Pravda. But there is also the surprisingly glum accounts from nationalist intellectuals, and there are interesting samples from emigres (in one sample 83% of former collective farm workers supported state control of heavy industry.)
One problem is Weiner's emphasis on ideology. His approach meets the marriage of more traditional anti-Communists such as Martin Malia, and the more post-modern approaches of Stephen Kotkin, with his debt to Foucault. Weiner is intrigued with the concept of "the gardening state" (the term is Zygmaunt Bauman's) and he plans to publish a collection of essays on this topic. The totalitarian and proto-totalitarian regime is called the gardening state because it treats its racial, class and political opponents like weeds. Weiner and Bauman treats this as an expression of modernity and the Enlightenment. Here one has reservations. That modernity has a dark side one cannot deny, but one can trace ethnic cleansing back to the last gasps of the Tsarist and Ottoman empires. Alexander II was responsible for the massacre of perhaps hundreds of thousands of conquered tribesmen in the 1860s. And what about slavery? American slavery was far more successful in eradicating its victim's religious beliefs than Stalin, yet slavery was both pre-and post Enlightenment, crucially influenced by the Liberal Enlightenment of Jefferson and the authoritarian Burkeanism of Calhoun.
Another problem is that Weiner's emphasis on ideological purity papers awkwardly over the many actual ambiguities he so skillfully relates. At one point he argues that Soviet ideology had even fewer inhibitions than Himmler did in his infamous Posen speech, though in fact one can find all sorts of reservations in private Soviet debates. (See the recent biography of Romanian communist Anna Pauker for her reservations about collectivization for example. And there is of course the Secret Speech.) Perhaps the key weakness of this approach can be found in the chapter on anti-Semitism. Weiner notes the ambiguities, the fact that the Soviets publicized Nazi atrocities against Jews, that Jews received their fair share of decorations, that they were not specifically purged from the party in the immediate post-war period, and that the Soviet Union took a militant stand against eugenics and other biological paradigms. He also notes the well known facts of increasing post-war anti-Semitism: the refusal to specifically refer to Jewish suffering, the Doctor's Plot, the widespread and quite false belief that the Jews had spent the war safely behind line, the talk of deporting the Jews to Siberia. What he does not explain is why this occurred. Is it popular anti-Semitism, Stalin's personal prejudices, spite of the upwardly mobile towards the literate and urban minority in their midst? Weiner does not really explain this ambiguity and emphasis on ideological purity only hides the problem. (He also does not discuss the extent to which Soviet Jews internalized Stalinist ideology.) Still Weiner's approach is an improvement on the us vs. them approach of earlier studies of totalitarianism. The comparative insights of the gardening state, eugenics, and ethnic cleansing really are helpful and should be complemented nicely by Terry Martin's upcoming An Affirmative Action Empire.
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An easy to follow, quick reference introductory guide for beginning professionals and students in filmmaking and postproduction. It explains all film laboratory procedures in the context of the wide range of technology that is used by filmmakers, explaining what happens and why at every stage. A technical understanding of film processing and printing, telecine and laboratory and digital processes will help you get the best results for your film. The book is particularly useful for those who have come to film making from other media - video or digital.
The book is based on the author's own experience as a lab technician and technical film consultant and provides answers to many frequently asked questions. The different pathways for film production and postproduction are demonstrated as well as the function of the lab at each stage of the process. The complete range of services is offered, with particular emphasis on the often confusing requirements for super 16 and the blow up to 35mm, the intricacies of negative cutting to match a non-linear edit and the process of grading and regrading for the answer print.
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All you wanted to know, but were too afraid to ask!.......2001-07-09
The film lab has always been the friend of the cinematographer, even if the methods and technology it represents remain a black-science to many.
Author Dominic Case is Technology Manager at Atlab, Australasia's largest filmlab. He puts it best: "Traditional film technology and post production methods are far from simple ... but those used for the lowest budget short-film are essentially the same as those that have evolved for major feature films ... This book describes the arcane properties and procedures of post production for both traditional film-makers and those experienced in video or digital imaging ..."
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Victor Volkman has created a tool that takes the mystery out of one of the more remarkably effective clinical procedures in a way that can help millions of people revitalize and improve their lives. To those desperate people who have experienced trauma or tragedy, this process is a pathway to dealing with their feelings and getting on with their lives. In the new book Beyond Trauma, Conversations on Traumatic Incident Reduction Volkman presents a series of conversations with a wide range of people from many different backgrounds and experiences. Each provides his or her perspective on Traumatic Incident Reduction, or TIR for short. The book explains the techniques used by professionals and patients to help people sort out, resolve and overcome the negative effects of painful suffering. Untold countless people have to deal with trauma in a wide variety of situations: Soldiers who experience war or injury, families dealing with death, chemical or substance abuse, parental neglect, child or sexual abuse, terrorism, crime and punishment. Beyond Trauma: Conversations on Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR), is unique in that it addresses both people suffering from the effects of traumatic stress and the practitioners who help them. This method has been effective in dealing with many areas of trauma, including Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), in such diverse groups as veterans, children, 9/11 survivors, motor vehicle accident and sexual abuse survivors. TIR is a brief, one-on-one, non-hypnotic, person-centered, simple, and highly structured method for permanently eliminating the negative effects of past traumas. Contributors include world-renowned experts in traumatology including Windy Dryden, Ph.D., Joyce Carbonell, Ph.D., and TIR's developer Frank A. Gerbode, M.D. Beyond Trauma highlights stories of TIR helping survivors to regain control of their lives. This book will be life changing not only for survivors of traumatic incidents but also for the professionals committed to helping them. "Not in 30+ years of practice have I used a more remarkably effective clinical procedure." --Robert H. Moore, Ph.D. What people are saying about this book: . "Beyond Trauma: Conversations on Traumatic Incident Reduction is an excellent resource to begin one's mastery in this area of practice." --Michael G. Tancyus, LCSW, DCSW, Augusta Behavioral Health . "I have found Beyond Trauma to be EXCEPTIONALLY HELPFUL in understanding and practicing TIR in broad and diverse areas of practice, not just in traditional trauma work. The information from various points of view is really priceless." --Gerry Bock, Registered Clinical Counsellor, B.C. Canada . "Beyond Trauma offers PTSD sufferers a glimpse at a light at the end of the tunnel, while providing mental health workers with a revolutionary technique that could increase their success rate with traumatized clients" --Jeni Mayer, Body Mind Spirit Magazine . "Having read the book, I feel that I have already become better at working with distressed clients." -- Bob Rich, Ph.D.
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Victor Volkman has created a tool that takes the mystery out of one of the more remarkably effective clinical procedures in a way that can help millions of people revitalize and improve their lives. To those desperate people who have experienced trauma or tragedy, this process is a pathway to dealing with their feelings and getting on with their lives. In the new book "Beyond Trauma, Conversations on Traumatic Incident Reduction, Second Edition" Volkman presents a series of conversations with a wide range of people from many different backgrounds and experiences. Each provides his or her perspective on Traumatic Incident Reduction, or TIR for short. The book explains the techniques used by professionals and patients to help people sort out, resolve and overcome the negative effects of painful suffering. Untold countless people have to deal with trauma in a wide variety of situations: Soldiers who experience war or injury, families dealing with death, chemical or substance abuse, parental neglect, child or sexual abuse, terrorism, crime and punishment.
Beyond Trauma: Conversations on Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR), is unique in that it addresses both people suffering from the effects of traumatic stress and the practitioners who help them. This method has been effective in dealing with many areas of trauma, including Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), in such diverse groups as veterans, children, 9/11 survivors, motor vehicle accident and sexual abuse survivors. TIR is a brief, one-on-one, non-hypnotic, person-centered, simple, and highly structured method for permanently eliminating the negative effects of past traumas. Contributors include world-renowned experts in traumatology including Windy Dryden, Ph.D., Joyce Carbonell, Ph.D., and TIR's developer Frank A. Gerbode, M.D. Beyond Trauma highlights stories of TIR helping survivors to regain control of their lives. This book will be life changing not only for survivors of traumatic incidents but also for the professionals committed to helping them.
The Second Edition: includes a dozen new articles totaling about 100 pages and adding two new chapters. The new material includes articles by Lt. Col. Chris Christensen, David W. Powell, Frank A. Gerbode, MD, Dr. Eduardo H. Cazabat, Robert H. Moore, PhD, Lori Beth Bisbey, PhD, Pam Valentine, PhD, Wendy Coughlin, PhD, Wendy Kruger, Teresa Descilo, Patricia Furze, and others. Also, a greatly expanded index and bibliography.
TIR has been successfully applied by not only psychologists and social workers but also by ministers and even lay trauma survivors, such as Vietnam veterans.
TIR allows practitioners to address trauma more deeply while simultaneously resolving trauma quickly. This allows practitioners to be more effective and able to handle more clients. Anecdotally speaking, compassion fatigue is virtually unknown among TIR practitioners.
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Beyond Trauma is a welcome and much appreciated contribution to professional and academic reference collections and supplemental reading lists.
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Having read "Beyond Trauma: Conversations on TIR", I feel that I have already become better at working with distressed clients.
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"Beyond Trauma provides mental health workers with a revolutionary technique that could increase their success rate with traumatized clients."
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"Cases the contributors provide offer a rich range of how the TIR technique works with a wide range of clients."
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Revolutionary Technique for Traumatic Incident Reduction .......2006-09-23
Beyond Trauma is written for those with a history of trauma who are looking for answers and resolution of their past. It is also written as a resource for mental health professionals who are interested in a powerful and proven approach to resolving the effects of past traumas.
The structure of the book is well organized and arranged so that each chapter is self-contained and stands alone. After reading chapter one which introduces the subject of "Trauma and Traumatic Incident Reduction" (TRI) the reader can move to a specific area of application of interest or need. The chapters cover various experiences such as: trauma experienced by veterans, by crime victims, by victims of terrorism, by those going through grief, and those experiencing trauma as the result of the death of a child, etc. Volkman has dedicated an entire chapter to using TIR in dealing with children. I found this to be interesting and insightful.
Mental health practitioners in addition to gaining insights on the above applications of TRI will also find the chapters on Traumatology, Research Projects, and Integrating Therapies helpful.
The final chapter on Metapsychology will enhance the reader's understanding of why TIR works as it does. This final chapter is made up of articles by Frank A. Gerbode, M.D., former Director of the Institute for Research in Metapsychology. Gerbode has been a leader in establishing Applied Metapsychology.
Informational material and case studies have been provided by experienced practicing Metapsycholoy facilitators from around the world from various points of view who have found TRI effective in their practice. The book shares the stories of people from diverse backgrounds and experiences. Their stories will not only be of interest for the insight they provide the reader but become excellent examples for clinical study. Recorded interviews by Victor Volkman and the testimonies of the victims themselves attest to the success of the TRI approach of treatment.
This second edition of Beyond Trauma is especially timely and important in light of battle scared servicemen returning from the Gulf War. Editor Victor Volkman has added two new chapters and a dozen new articles to this edition. The two new chapters are, "TIR Research Projects," and "TIR in the Workplace." The new articles and papers update existing chapters and shed new light on this revolutionary technique for helping traumatized clients.
Well documented research, tables, appendices, end notes, references and a comprehensive index add to the value of this book as a resource tool for future reference.
I personally found the material relating to veterans helpful. I have a new understanding of the difficulty of those who served in Viet Nam. TIR gives hope for a quicker transition for some of those now serving in the Middle East. Another area of personal interest was the study on "Trauma Resolution in an At-Risk Youth Program." This kind of research is a proactive measure in crime prevention and offers hope for the growing number of at-risk youth in American society today.
These "Conversations on Traumatic Incident Reduction" provide a remarkable resource for trauma victims and professional facilitators alike.
PTSD Encountered and Countered.......2006-04-11
"This is the first time I read about Applied Metapsychology in clinical practice. I am lucky to have come across a concise, eminently-readable, empathic, joy-filled, hands-on text.
Replete with examples, exercises, episodes from the author's life, and tips - this is a must for therapists (the book uses a much more benign term: "facilitators"), clients, and anyone who seeks heightened emotional welfare - or merely to recover from a trauma.
The book avoids the twin traps of professional condescension and incomprehensible argot. The author treats both mental health practitioners and laymen with equal respect and provides them with the tools they need. It is all about enhancing personal growth by finding your place among others - a kind of adult re-socialization for better relationships in the broadest sense of the word.
Contrary to the psychodynamic schools of treatment, Applied Metapsychology, as the author continuously emphasizes, is person-centered. It revolves around the client - it is user-friendly. The therapist is there (if at all) only as a catalyst. The exercises, concepts, and tools made available in this rich volume are geared to be easily applied without external facilitation. Metapsychology strikes me as disintermediation at its best - and this little book is a treasure trove. Sam Vaknin, author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited".
Essential reference book.......2006-03-31
Reviewed by Danielle Feliciano for Reader Views (3/06)
"Beyond Trauma: Conversations on Traumatic Incident Reduction" provides a wealth of information on traumatic incident reduction in a very reader-friendly format. Each chapter is self-contained, making it easy to find information relating to a particular situation without having to read the book from cover to cover. This book contains a detailed explanation of what "traumatic incident reduction" is, as well as offering a wide variety of situations in which TIR would be useful (for instance, grief and loss, crime, terrorism, and accidents). Each chapter has its own reference list, making it easy to find further reading for each particular subject within this book. The book is comprised of the experiences of a number of people with experience with TIR, so the reader is given quite an array of opinions on the subject. The book neatly wraps up with four appendixes, including a well thought out "Frequently Asked Questions" section.
"Beyond Trauma: Conversations on Traumatic Incident Reduction" is an essential reference book for any professional interested in or already working in this area of expertise. Furthermore, it would be beneficial to anyone who has suffered trauma and is interested in a deeper understanding of this particular method of reduction and treatment. It does read a bit like a textbook, which could be intimidating to the average reader. But the information contained within these pages is well worth reading.
Rapid Resolution of Trauma.......2005-09-02
"TIR allows practitioners to address trauma more deeply while simultaneously resolving trauma quickly." ~Victor R. Volkman
TIR (Trauma Incident Reduction) can be used on the frontlines of disasters. It can help people cope with what has just occurred and it can permanently eliminate PTSD (Post-traumatic Stress Disorder) symptoms.
This one-on-one, non-hypnotic, person-centered, structured therapy helps patients to run experience through their minds until insights appear. This time of reflection seems to encourage people to not only face what has happened, but to understand the impact and then to begin the journey out of trauma and into healing.
As a survivor of PSTD, I can truly say this book is rather enlightening. I experienced many of the symptoms discussed in this book after a few very troubling years of major breakups, car accidents and dramatic life changes including surviving a hurricane in the Caribbean on my honeymoon. A hurricane is truly one of the most frightening experiences you can endure. My own experience happened 10 years ago during the same time of year as Hurricane Katrina.
The process I went through to stabilize my own psyche involved many of the techniques discussed in this book, however my recovery was based on friends and family listening. In fact, the main concept in TIR seems to be "listening."
When a patient begins to experience PTSD they may not even realize what is happening. I didn't even know about PTSD or what a panic attack was until I read about the symptoms. People who experience devastation not only have to rebuild their lives, they have to deal with anger, anxiety, panic attacks, flashbacks, claustrophobia, insomnia, nightmares, rage, depression, fatigue, obsessive thoughts, guilt and a number of issues relating to PTSD.
The techniques described in this book will help individuals dealing with adjustment disorders, acute stress, phobias, sexual abuse, domestic violence, mourning and depression. The topics also include crime, grief, loss, abuse, accident victims, loss of a child, loss of a partner and surviving the experiences in a war. There is an excellent example of a woman who goes from experiencing a great loss to recounting the memory and then comes to terms with her grief. Psychotherapists also tell about their experiences and how TIR helped their patients:
When he finished, looked at me and was
crying, he said, "You Know, you are the only person
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I feel better already. ~Alex Frater, Psychotherapist
The next logical step after reading this book seems to be attending a workshop or ordering the TIR and Metapsychology Lecture Series. There is a list of TIR trainers with Q & A to help you decide on a teacher or find out about a website filled with information on TIR. The interviews with people who have training in TIR makes this entire solution much easier to understand. I would suggest reading the question and answer section in the Appendix B first because it truly introduces you to TIR.
This book does seem to be written to encourage professionals to take a TIR workshop. Recommended to Psychologists, Social Workers, Traumatologists, Compassion Fatigue Specialists and anyone interested in Post-traumatic Stress Syndrome.
In my own life and the life of family members and friend I have seen that talking about incidents is more healing than repressing feelings. It might be painful to talk about your experiences, but that is how many people find a path to healing and sometimes you really can't heal the trauma until you face and understand the circumstances that caused the PTSD. The healing seems to be very rapid after you identify the causes and then implement solutions. TIR seems to take patients to a place where they can begin the healing process much more quickly.
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Understand and heal trauma.......2005-06-08
Beyond Trauma offers a fascinating look at overcoming PTSD (caused by many different traumatic experiences) through the unique therapeutic technique of Traumatic Incidence Reduction (TIR). I do not have personal experience with TIR, but I am a survivor of childhood trauma and I have dealt with the symptoms of PTSD in varying degrees throughout my life. After reading this book I learned about TIR for the first time and it appears very promising for getting at the root cause of traumatic triggers and finding resolution. In addition the book is divided up into a very easy to read format.
Through reading this book I also gained a deeper understanding of the processes of trauma, triggers and traumatic incidences of PTSD. I learned that when a person experiences a severe trauma, she makes decisions in that moment as a way to cope, to seek redemption or to attempt to prevent it from ever happening again. These decisions continue to affect us until we find a way to resolve them in a healthy way.
In the meantime, while these traumas and decisions remain unresolved we continue to go through life encountering the triggers that bring those emotional states to the surface. As this continues to happen we can then experience re-traumatization and begin to add new triggers into the network of triggers that were present at the time of the initial trauma. Often when a person is being triggered they are unaware of the trigger and experience it as a feeling of rage. Rage can be a destructive force in a person's life. This book offers a way of understanding trauma that can help us to free ourselves from the negative impact that unresolved trauma continues to take on our lives.
After reading this book I am encouraged to further explore TIR, and I have gained a deeper understanding of my own PTSD symptoms and feelings and the impact that has on my life.
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