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Transcending Trauma by Frank G. Anderson — WisdomDeck honest review
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Transcending Trauma

by Frank G. Anderson

An IFS approach to complex trauma for clinicians: working with extreme parts, dissociation, neuroscience and the therapist's own parts. Dense and for professionals.

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you treat complex trauma and use or want to use IFS.

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Three things you will actually use

  1. Extreme parts protect.
  2. Go slowly with dissociation.
  3. The therapist's parts matter.

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Read the chapters on the therapist's parts first.

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Clinical IFS for trauma.

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