Women Who Hurt Themselves

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Here at last is a book that provides help for the thousands of women who secretly inflict violence on themselves. Filled with moving stories, Women Who Hurt Themselves book powerful and compassionate book is the first to focus on women who harm themselves through self-mutilation, compulsive cosmetic surgeries, eating disorders, and other forms of chronic injury to the by: A new perspective on why women with eating disorders, compulsions, obsessions, and self abuse disorders act out in self-harmful ways.

In order to understand these women, it is necessary, says the author, to understand TRS, or Trauma Reenactment Syndrome.

All of the women in this book were subconsciously reenacting experienced trauma in childhood/5(11). Dusty Miller is an author and therapist whose gentle spirit and powerul voice are providing a generation of women survivors with a safe and protective presence in their therapy and recovery.

This book serves as a role model for clinicians trying to help clients on their sojourn from pain and hurt to truth and healing/5(11). This was not a book about women who hurt themselves in general, but specifically a book about women who hurt themselves due to what the author calls "Trauma Reenactment Syndrome" (TRS).

While this may certainly be a real phenomenon -- that some adult women hurt themselves after being abused or neglected in childhood -- it by no means can account for all /5.

Women Who Hurt Themselves: A Book Of Hope And Understanding by Ed.D. Dusty Miller () [Ed.D. Dusty Miller;] on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Women Who Hurt Themselves: A Book Of Hope And Understanding by Ed.D. Dusty Miller ()/5(11). Women Who Hurt Themselves. For years, the harm that some women do to themselves was ignored and silenced, both in psychological literature and in homes and hospitals.

Dusty Millers eye-opening book revealed the truth about a syndrome that has plagued millionsand continues to do so today, endangering ever-younger lives. Filled with moving stories, this powerful and compassionate book is the first to focus on women who harm themselves through self-mutilation, compulsive cosmetic surgeries, eating disorders, and other forms of chronic injury to the body.

WOMEN WHO HURT THEMSELVES: A Book of Hope and Understanding User Review - Kirkus. Women Who Hurt Themselves explores the suffering of women who reenact childhood trauma, particularly abuse or neglect, through self-destructive behavior.

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Dusty Miller’s Women Who Hurt Themselves, A Book of Hope and Understanding, explores this language and puts it into a new perspective. Miller calls her theory Traumatic Reenactment Syndrome (TRS). Her definition of TRS behaviors include eating disorders, cutting, burning, sexual acting out, substance abuse, and any hurtful behaviors that may be metaphors for.

Women Who Hurt Themselves: A Book Of Hope And Understanding: Dusty Miller: Books - 3/5(1). There is a very personal language used by those who hurt or abuse themselves. It involves grief and rage, and it is usually related to the abuse they experienced earlier in their lives.

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Women Who Hurt Themselves: A Book of Hope and Understanding. Women traumatized in childhood hurt themselves more often than men do because men are socialized to act aggressively and fight back, notes psychologist Miller, who is director of Clinical Mentoring at Antioch/New England Graduate School.

Many books have described victims of rape and battering, but scant attention has been paid to another form of harm increasingly common among women. Here at last is a book that provides help for the thousands of women who secretly inflict violence on themselves/5.

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A new perspective on why women with eating disorders, compulsions, obsessions, and self abuse disorders act out in self-harmful ways. In order to understand these women, it is necessary, says the author, to understand TRS, or Trauma Reenactment Syndrome.

All of the women in this book were subconsciously reenacting experienced trauma in by: Women who hurt themselves: a book of hope and understanding. [Dusty Miller] -- Many books have described victims of rape and battering, but scant attention has been paid to another form of harm increasingly common among women.Dusty J.

Miller, author of the Alice Ott mystery trilogy, lives with her wife on a small lake in Belchertown. She is also the author of the psychological classic, Women Who Hurt Themselves, and other self-help books for survivors of is a social justice activist whose Alice Ott mysteries reflect her decades of fighting for a healthy planet and a just world.