As someone who struggles with depression and anxiety resulting from physical and emotional abuse experienced in my youth, I was enthralled by Dr. van der Kolk’s explanations of how the mind and body react, process, and integrate trauma. I was also impressed by the humanity he demonstrated when referring to his past cases as well as his approaches to treatment. The Body Keeps the Score opened my eyes to new possibilities for helping me along my journey to peace and healing.
"Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding and treating traumatic stress and the scope of its impact on society." -Alexander McFarlane, Director of the Centre for Traumatic Stress Studies
A pioneering researcher transforms our understanding of trauma and offers a bold new paradigm for healing in this New York Times bestseller
Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Dr. Bessel van der…
In Philip K. Dick’s alternate history novel, the Allies have lost WWII and the United States is divided up between Nazi Germany in the east and the Empire of Japan in the west.
I found The Man in the High Castle a fascinating theory of what might have become of the United States had the Axis powers been victorious. The oppression and fear experienced by the characters is palatable as each of them struggles for the best existence they can manage given their circumstances all while the protagonist searches for the author of a popular but banned novel in which the Allies won.
'Dick's best work, and the most memorable alternative world tale...ever written' SCIENCE FICTION: THE 100 BEST NOVELS
It is 1962 and the Second World War has been over for seventeen years: people have now had a chance to adjust to the new order. But it's not been easy. The Mediterranean has been drained to make farmland, the population of Africa has virtually been wiped out and America has been divided between the Nazis and the Japanese. In the neutral buffer zone that divides the two superpowers lives the man in the high castle, the author of an underground bestseller, a…
In an effort to conserve the planet’s resources, what if citizens from around the globe were afforded the option to voluntarily enter hibernation for a set amount of time?
I found the premise fascinating and enjoyed the variety of styles Doyle employed to present this story. Parts are epistolary, told through letters written by a former “Sleeper” to her psychiatrist. We also hear from a rambling blogger about to take the plunge and the journal entries of a man coping with life while his spouse hibernates for four months (one month longer than the standard duration). In between these are chapters detailing the interior layout and operations of the Hibernaculum as experienced by a journalist during an official tour of the facility, a staff member who bathes the Sleepers in their pods, and occasional design notes from the Hibernaculum’s lead architect. For me, all of these styles were well used and delivered a startling, uncomfortable, and thought-provoking view of a near-future Earth in crisis.
"... readers who enter Hibernaculum with the characters, who come to realize that its promises may be empty and hold consequences they never saw coming, will find the story gripping, revealing, and frightening. The contrast between notes and experiences of those who navigate this world are exceptionally well done, and will lend to book club discussions and sci-fi reader delight. Libraries and readers seeking a futuristic exploration which examines sleepers of the world and the social and political truths and realities that underlie their motivations will find Hibernaculum replete with a growing horror of realization that awakens, at the end,…
While haunted by visions of her brother's suicide, psychic-medium Miranda Lorensen is called to Lancaster, Pennsylvania to investigate a series of bizarre deaths—some of which are also suicides. Miranda and her team of paranormal investigators soon find themselves confronted by a vengeful spirit awakened thirty-three years after a bloody family tragedy. Miranda realizes that only she can stop the entity before it claims its final victims, but will her obsession for saving lives redeem her for the brother she failed?
