Getting Through the Day: Strategies for Adults Hurt as Children

by Nancy J. Napier

Overview

Early abuse can have a profound effect on adult life, especially when survivors struggle with dissociative responses, which range from "trancing out" under stress to the switching of personalities seen in multiples.
This book enables adults who were traumatized as children to learn new strategies to meet the demands of daily living. While focusing on the effects of dissociation and including specific advice for multiples, Nancy Napier presents dozens of exercises helpful to anyone who finds that unresolved childhood feelings are blocking life's path.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393312423
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	09/17/1994
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	280,510
Product dimensions:	5.38(w) x 8.14(h) x 0.74(d)

About the Author

Nancy J. Napier is a marriage and family therapist in private practice in New York City. She is a former president of the New York Society for the Study of Multiple Personality and Dissociative Disorders, a board member of the New York Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, and a past board member of the New York Milton H. Erickson Society for Psychotherapy and Hypnosis. She is the author of several books, including Sacred Practices for Conscious Living.

Editorial Reviews

Nancy Napier has added to the healing literature for adult survivors of childhood trauma. . . . In reading this book, I continuously thought of how useful it would be to any of my current patients.

Christine A. Courtois

An insightful, compassionate, practical and readable guide for survivors of hurtful childhoods.

Gloria Steinem

This book provides valuable tools for adults abused as children. The title is too modest. The techniques provided not only help 'get through the day' but also empower the reader to gradually mitigate and eventually overcome the effects of painful past experiences.

Yvonne M. Dolan

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