"For Women Only, Book 1" is the first in a series of books devoted to exploring women's issues in psychotherapy and counseling. This first book describes the treatment in just six sessions of one woman's struggle with childbirth so painful it produced PTSD. Eight months of postpartum depression followed the birth before she found effective psychotherapy treatment. Other volumes will address emotionally and physically painful experiences with the menstrual/ovulation cycle, the trauma of miscarriages and stillbirths, and the effect on women of their partners' ...

“A Part of me wants to kick him out of the house but another Part of me loves him and can’t imagine life without him.” This kind of admission when we examine ourselves honestly and deeply is one we all intuitively understand. Similarly, for self-examination in the form of, “My head tells me one thing but my heart tells me something else.” These are the sorts of thoughts and feelings that affected Amelia before our therapy began. We usually consider these “Parts,” “heads,” and “hearts”” ...

Written by an experienced counselor of adults suffering from the PTSD typical of those raised in dysfunctional families, Healing the Wounds of Childhood describes the six-stage process of recovery for survivors from multiple kinds of childhood trauma. It serves as a practical guide for adult children from dysfunctional families who choose to confront and constructively deal with the pain of the past. Drawing from case studies, 12-Step Program and rehabilitation literature, as well as from his own personal experiences, author Dennis McGuire illustrates the ...

This book adopts a novel, even revolutionary, approach to healing a wide range of psychological problems in therapy. The premise is that all of us have a number of multiple personalities within us who powerfully influence every aspect of our lives. By locating these internal parts and neutralizing the effects of the high-energy, often traumatic, experiences that created them, Parts Psychology demonstrates that patients can heal rapidly and completely from long-held emotional issues. The core of the book contains the healing narratives for 12 patients who ...

Virtue Is Its Own Punishment is the story of a boy's journey of growth and discovery from childhood through college at Brigham Young University. It is not about religion so much as it is a story of growing up in the culture of small town, Utah, Mormon society. The author is a wry social commentator whose humorous depiction of coming of age will appeal to Mormons, ex-Mormons, and other participants in restrictive cultures. Highlights include full-immersion baptism, beliefs about Heaven, avoiding missionary work, and learning about girls and technical virginity. ...