Question About Therapy And A Book

[Lotis]

Hi, I bought the book Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation. I suggested that my therapist also get the book. For those that read the book did you read/work on the book with your therapist? Or did you read it alone? I was thinking that this would be most beneficial if my therapist and I worked together on it. Just wondering what others have done.
Also, did you find the book helpful?
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[Whyteferret]

I used the PTSD Handbook several years ago. When it brought something up, I showed him the exercise and we went through it.

For the most point, it was on my own although he'd ask about it every once an a while.

That worked well for me

 

[ShodokanJenn]

My therapist and I are reading The Body Keeps The Score, by Bessel Van Der Kolk. We discuss it a little, but it isn't the focus of my appointments. But it has brought up some interesting discussion points. We're both learning from it. I like that my T doesn't feel like he knows it all already, and that he's open to learning more, and he's not afraid to admit when something is new for him or if he's unsure about something.

 

[Deleted member 33880]

I am jealous! (in a joking sort of way) My T never gets the books I ask him to and when I buy them, I give them to him and he never reads them. in all the five years I have worked with him he has never suggested doing a work book. And I keep telling him I love homework. So I have often worked through a book on my own and shown him or sent him my sheets that I have written. It is seems he just can't be bothered with extra.
I have an e- therapist now whom I email most days. She has just bought a trauma workbook and is going to copy out sheets for me to do. I do whatever homework she suggests and she seems to find it exciting how enthusiastic and keen I am to do stuff.

 

[Sammyiam]

Hi sorry can I sound really stupid but what's an e therapist ?

 

[JEKBreatheandBelieve]

Also, did you find the book helpful?

I found the book extremely helpful, but never got to finish it. I started reading it at an in-patient trauma center and it helped me understand so much about me. However, I have DID, and certain parts did not want to read it/let me read it, so alas, I haven't gotten to finish it. When I read it, my therapist there assigned me chapters, I took notes when I read (noted things that spoke to me, stood out, or I had questions about) and brought those with me to therapy. I found it helpful, but reading the book alone would have worked well for me, too, I think. I don't read things with my current therapist though if I do read something related, I will talk to her about it and she's usually read it or will make note of it.

 

[Deleted member 33880]

Hi sorry can I sound really stupid but what's an e therapist ?

I didn't know until a couple of months ago. It is a therapist on line that I email. My e-therapist lives in New York and I live in the UK so it suits me in that she is available at times when no one here is. And I can post as much as I like. And we live chat via text on the e-therapy site pretty often - at least once a week or more. I pay a three monthly rate (it is cheaper that way) and she is a back up for my face to face live therapy. I am in control and I 'sacked' the first one and asked for another one - whom I get on better with. You can trial it for ten days I think to see if it works for you. It is anonymous too which is good.

 

[Deleted member 33880]

My book arrived. i am reading two books now. One about Complex PTSD that someone here recommdned and now this one. I am very well read about trauma but still stuck ...