Trauma and Addiction, Tian Dayton
Trauma and Addiction, Tian Dayton
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Trauma and Addiction
Ending the Cycle of Pain Through Emotional Literacy

Author: Tian Dayton

Narrator: Kim Niemi

Unabridged: 10 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/25/2020


Synopsis

For the past decade, author Tian Dayton has been researching trauma and addiction, and how psychodrama (or sociometry group psychotherapy) can be used in their treatment. Since trauma responses are stored in the body, a method of therapy that engages the body through role play can be more effective in accessing the full complement of trauma-related memories.

This latest book identifies the interconnection of trauma and addictive behavior, and shows why they can become an unending cycle. Emotional and psychological pain so often lead to self-medicating, which leads to more pain, and inevitably more self-medicating, and so on—ad infinitum. This groundbreaking book offers listeners effective ways to work through their traumas in order to heal their addictions and their predilection toward what clinicians call self-medicating (the abuse of substances [alcohol, drugs, food], activities [work, sex, gambling, etc.], and/or possessions [money, material things].)

Therapists treating patients for whom no other avenue of therapy has proved effective will find that this book offers practical, lasting solutions. Case studies and examples of this behavioral phenomenon will illustrate the connection, helping listeners understand its dynamics, recognize their own situations and realize that they are not alone in experiencing this syndrome.

About Tian Dayton

Tian Dayton, PhD, is a senior fellow at The Meadows and author of fifteen books. She is a Huffington Post blogger and creator of innerlook.com. She has a Masters in Educational Psychology and a PhD in clinical psychology and is a board-certified trainer in psychodrama and a licensed Creative Arts Therapist. She is also a certified Montessori teacher. Dr. Dayton is the director of the New York Psychodrama Training Institute where she runs training groups in psychodrama, sociometry, and experiential group therapy. She is a nationally renowned speaker, expert, and consultant in psychodrama, trauma, and addiction.


Reviews

This book was really good! As a therapist myself it was useful and inspiring. I knew little about psychodrama group therapist, so I learned a lot.......more

Goodreads review by Simona

It is absoluting touching to see how personal and professional experience can create real support.It is touching, inspiring and more then that , it brings hope. "Trauma and Addiction" it is not only a book that every person working in the field of mental health needs to have it, but as well every adu......more

Goodreads review by CeeCee

I gave this book a 4 star because it is slow at some points of the book. It is a lot of information at once. Now, I do love this book when they introduced how important it is for a person to have emotional literacy. Dayton talks about how trauma and addiction goes hand in hand and explains the neuro......more