title: The Therapist's Emotional Survival: Dealing with the Pain of Exploring Trauma
author:  Stuart D. Perlman 
description: <i>The Therapist's Emotional Survival: Dealing with the Pain of Exploring Trauma</i> is a unique study of the challenging and complex interplay between the personalities of the therapist and patient in working through trauma and sexual abuse. It accurately and authentically depicts the lived experience of both participants in this difficult, often harrowing journey, backed up by dramatic clinical illustrations. The self-analytic sections include powerful self-revelations of a kind one almost never sees in clinical writing. Perlman's book will be of value and interest to a wide audience, from new therapists to seasoned analysts. No other book of which I am aware gives as detailed a picture of what the treatment of these patients is like. (George Atwood)<br /><br />In <i>The Therapist's Emotional Survival: Dealing with the Pain of Exploring Trauma</i>, Stuart D. Perlman, a therapist and psychoanalyst with wide experience in treating the victims of sexual abuse and other forms of trauma, takes the reader on a journey into the emotional heart of this most difficult work. Drawing on extensive case material, Dr. Perlman reveals the special hardships, personal and emotional, that confront the therapist; he is honest and courageous in using his own reactions to illustrate these difficulties in ways that will be most helpful to all - mental health professionals and others - who deal with this population. While there are many recent books dealing with this topic, I know of none that do so with the depth and honesty of this one. (Louis Breger)
zlib_text: Survivors
  Stories	&	Strategies	to	Heal	the	Hurt
  Dr.	John	Preston
  
  Copyright	©	2002	by	John	Preston
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  Created	in	the	United	States	of	America
  Portions	of	this	book	were	previously	published	under	the	title	Growing	Beyond	Emotional	Pain,
  ©	1993,	by	John	Preston.
  Cover	photo	©	by	Wood	Sabold	Photography,	Bandon,	Oregon.
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  With	gratitude	and	love	to:	Bonnie,	Davi