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Victims of Cruelty: Somatic Psychotherapy in the Healing of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
enlarge	Author: Maryanna Eckberg Creator: Peter Levine Publisher: North Atlantic Books Category: Book List Price: ~~$18.95~~ Buy Used: $5.43 You Save: $13.52 (71%) New (14) Used (13) from $5.43 Media: Paperback Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 250 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7 Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.5 ISBN: 1556433530 Dewey Decimal Number: 616.8521 EAN: 9781556433535 ASIN: 1556433530 Publication Date: October 30, 2000 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Shipping: Expedited shipping available Shipping: International shipping available Condition: New copy, just has a tiny bit of edge wear on the cover edge.

Editorial Reviews: Product Description In this major new work on body-oriented psychotherapy, Marianna Eckberg makes the case for somatic treatment for individuals suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In describing this therapeutic approach, she incorporates events of historical or national significance, including work with Vietnam vets (the first to be diagnosed with the disorder) and the Chowchilla kidnapping victims. Case studies from her professional efforts include work with victims of torture in El Salvador and her own experience as a victim of sexual and medical abuse. Victims of Cruelty offers a stinging rebuke of electroshock therapy, a political story of international medicine in Central America, and the demonstration of an increasingly influential form of treatment for PTSD. Included are an appendix of somatic interventions and a bibliography.

Customer Reviews: One of the Two Best PTSD Books I Ever Read! April 11, 2006 5 out of 5 found this review helpful I have a vast collection of PTSD books on my shelves and I have to say this is one of the two best books on PTSD I have ever read. (The other one is Rebuilding Shattered Lives: The Responsible Treatment of Complex Post-Traumatic and Dissociative Disorders, by James A. Chu). Maryanna's story is the closest I have ever come to reading my own story! I related to so much of it that I underlined or highlighted more than half of her story. It was incredibly validating to find out that someone else had experienced the same things as me, including all of the dissociation. And it was inspiring to hear that she had found ways to recover. I highly recommend this book to anyone who has endured severe trauma and wonders if anyone else has ever experienced anything close to what they have experienced. You just might find yourself relating to her story, too! great book, highly recommended February 12, 2005 8 out of 12 found this review helpful This is the best book on PTSD I have read.br /I found the spiritual and psychological insights uplifting. It is a powerful read.br /As the previous critic stated, it is not a "technical" book with exact somatic therapy techniques listed. br /I did not find it extremely upsetting that the Author and one of her most important clients had passed away, death is an inevitable part of life.br /Although I appreciated how the Author explained her own experience of recovery -- this was at first overwhelming to me. It took longer to integrate thisfor me. br /br /For This reason I would not necessarily recommend it to a recovering client of PTSD. br /br /However, I think the examples she used to demonstrate her experience with clients were fine because although you might not relate to their exact situation this is helpful to distance yourself yet still be conscious of how tragedy can strike anyone.br / Not for clients of the therapy May 23, 2001 58 out of 64 found this review helpful I read Victims of Cruelty as both a client and a student of Somatic Experiencing, at the recommendation of my SE therapist. Eckberg gives some clear and fascinating insights into the value of somatic therapies for sufferers of PTSD, with a particular emphasis on her own specialty, victims of political and other forms of torture. The explicit conclusions she draws are hopeful and uplifting. The implicit conclusion, however, is not.pAs a student of the work, I found the book less technical than I would have hoped--it seems aimed at a lay audience, and yet the emphasis on fairly unusual and extreme forms of trauma makes it too specialized for general interest or self-help. Eckberg mentions but does not elaborate on the specifics of her clinical methods.pAs a client of the work, I found the book distressing and even frightening: one of Eckberg's most haunting and memorable client cases, and then Eckberg herself, developed cancer at the successful conclusion of trauma therapy, and both eventually died of it. The book, published after Eckberg's death, seems to say that a natural outgrowth of recovery from a lifetime of PTSD is to find peace and then die. This would NOT be a message I'd want to give clients struggling to recover from trauma.pVictims of Cruelty, therefore, stands as an interesting narrative of one woman's journey as a trauma victim and a healer, but failed to teach me much as a healer and actually detracted from my work as a client.

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