Trauma Is a Thief
Published on 6. September 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
326 pages
978-1-63765-644-0 (ISBN)
Description
Trauma Is a Thief is a memoir(ish) work whose author - a California-based, American, cisgender, White, gay-male psychologist, professor, and former college president - uses his own lived experiences of trauma in a very disturbed family (including sexual and physical abuse, abandonment, and multiple family addictions) to elucidate the developmental and lifelong impact of trauma.
In a deeply personal work, Neal offers his childhood as an illustrative case study as he invites the reader - applying his professional expertise as author, researcher, and clinician - inside his disturbed family and traumatic early life - and the years since as he has struggled in the aftermath toward healing and wholeness.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
474 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-63765-644-0 (9781637656440)
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Dr. Neal King has served as psychologist/psychotherapist, professor of psychology, author, keynote speaker, and college president in his professional life. He has worked with multiple survivors of trauma in his clinical practice.In "Trauma Is a Thief", he applies the same case-study methodology he used in his dissertation at UC Berkeley to his own lived experience in a deeply disturbed family.After living and working for several years in the San Francisco Bay Area, Neal lives with his partner of many years, Peter, in the Southern California of his youth, roughly midway between Los Angeles and San Diego. He is an avid photographer and loves to travel, read fiction, tend the roses, and visit local wineries.