Review of The Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Fallacy
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Review of The Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Fallacy
[Following is a volunteer review of "The Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Fallacy" by H. Nattanya Andersen.]
At age 28, Nattanya Andersen became a flight attendant. At age 45, she had survived numerous near death experiences in the air and on the ground. And after a Boeing 727 engine exploded five feet away from her, she found herself thrown into the surprisingly uncharted territory of the mental health industry. The aftermath of these terrible experiences caused her a post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Diagnosed and living with PTSD her road to recovery is a life-changing experience full of ups and downs and this is what most of the book talks about. The Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Fallacy is an expository and a self-help book that shows the most appropriate approaches to managing PTSD and it is filled with eye-opening discoveries about the various industries at play in the treatment of PTSD. Nattanya's insights and research about this topic shed a totally different light on the perception of PTSD.
What I like about this book is that Anderson challenges and debates the basic assumptions about the PTSD treatment under the hands of workers compensation boards and airline employed psychiatrists and other psychologists. Drawing on her experience and on the research of renowned psychologists and psychiatrists such as James T. Webb, Irvin David Yalom and others, she argues that after the PTSD causing event, PTSD sufferers are overcome by an overwhelming burdening feeling of meaninglessness and despair, and to her, the psychiatric medications and therepies which are prescribed by the so-called professionals are merely a diversion tactic from the actual truth of PTSD healing. She further argues that these different acts mainly does nothing but intensify PTSD symptoms and create suicidal tendencies in the sufferer’s mind. These presentations gives an equally controversial and thought-provoking perspective which I really enjoyed. In this book, the author gives the appropriate golden ways and recommendations on how to heal from PTSD.
As any other book, this work have its downsides. For starters, the book has many technical terms and although there are detailed explanations about them, they tend to steer away from the topic which can make the reader a bit confused. A background or a prior knowledge in pharmacy, psychiatry, and psychology would be very helpful when reading this work. Moreover, the self-help part takes too long to build up as the exposition takes the larger portion of the book. The work also requires a lot of focus and attention; consequently, it can make the reader a bit inpatient and sometimes lost. In addition, there are errors in punctuation so I suggest another round of editing. Finally, although I admire the boldness of exposing the different sides of PTSD, at some points you can feel that it tends to be biased.
The book is non-fiction with volumes of informations that requires a lot of focus to absorb fully what the author is trying to accomplish. This book is not for inpatient readers who are looking for a quick self-help knowledge. It is very helpful, insightful and refreshing and those with PTSD or a keen on the fields of healthcare, pharmacy, psychiatry, and psychology will find this book very interesting and most importantly very helpful.
As the positives outweigh the negatives I give this book 3 out of 4 stars, with one star taken for editorial mistakes and the long expository part.
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The Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Fallacy
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At age 28, Nattanya Andersen became a flight attendant. At age 45, she had survived numerous near death experiences in the air and on the ground. And after a Boeing 727 engine exploded five feet away from her, she found herself thrown into the surprisingly uncharted territory of the mental health industry. The aftermath of these terrible experiences caused her a post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Diagnosed and living with PTSD her road to recovery is a life-changing experience full of ups and downs and this is what most of the book talks about. The Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Fallacy is an expository and a self-help book that shows the most appropriate approaches to managing PTSD and it is filled with eye-opening discoveries about the various industries at play in the treatment of PTSD. Nattanya's insights and research about this topic shed a totally different light on the perception of PTSD.
What I like about this book is that Anderson challenges and debates the basic assumptions about the PTSD treatment under the hands of workers compensation boards and airline employed psychiatrists and other psychologists. Drawing on her experience and on the research of renowned psychologists and psychiatrists such as James T. Webb, Irvin David Yalom and others, she argues that after the PTSD causing event, PTSD sufferers are overcome by an overwhelming burdening feeling of meaninglessness and despair, and to her, the psychiatric medications and therepies which are prescribed by the so-called professionals are merely a diversion tactic from the actual truth of PTSD healing. She further argues that these different acts mainly does nothing but intensify PTSD symptoms and create suicidal tendencies in the sufferer’s mind. These presentations gives an equally controversial and thought-provoking perspective which I really enjoyed. In this book, the author gives the appropriate golden ways and recommendations on how to heal from PTSD.
As any other book, this work have its downsides. For starters, the book has many technical terms and although there are detailed explanations about them, they tend to steer away from the topic which can make the reader a bit confused. A background or a prior knowledge in pharmacy, psychiatry, and psychology would be very helpful when reading this work. Moreover, the self-help part takes too long to build up as the exposition takes the larger portion of the book. The work also requires a lot of focus and attention; consequently, it can make the reader a bit inpatient and sometimes lost. In addition, there are errors in punctuation so I suggest another round of editing. Finally, although I admire the boldness of exposing the different sides of PTSD, at some points you can feel that it tends to be biased.
The book is non-fiction with volumes of informations that requires a lot of focus to absorb fully what the author is trying to accomplish. This book is not for inpatient readers who are looking for a quick self-help knowledge. It is very helpful, insightful and refreshing and those with PTSD or a keen on the fields of healthcare, pharmacy, psychiatry, and psychology will find this book very interesting and most importantly very helpful.
As the positives outweigh the negatives I give this book 3 out of 4 stars, with one star taken for editorial mistakes and the long expository part.
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The Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Fallacy
View: on Bookshelves | on Amazon
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