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Title: Healing the Child Within by Charles Whitfield ISBN: 0-932194-40-0 Publisher: Health Communications Pub. Date: 01 April, 1987 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.31 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Turning Point in My Life
Comment: After a tumultuous adolescence and early adulthood I found myself in therapy. My therapist recommended that I attend a self-help group for adult children of dysfunctional families. The therapist also suggested that I read "Healing the Child Within". I didn't think I needed any self help group -at least not badly enough to go through the trouble of actually finding such a group in my area. After being in therapy for one year I read "Healing the Child Within".
I was not physically or sexually abused as a child. What I did not understand was how pervasive and harmful the emotional NEGLECT was and how it still affected me as an adult. What I learned from this book was how much I had been deprived of as a child. How feelings of fear and anxiety as an adult could be the result of childhood experience. After reading this book I was left with a very strong desire to attend a self help group. I attended my first ACoA group in October 1988 and my life has gotten better in ways I cannot put into words. This book for me was not the answer but a trigger to seek further help. But if I had not had this trigger I would not be where I am today. In the context of a trigger, I can honestly say that this book changed my life in a very profound way.
Rating: 3
Summary: Worth a look
Comment: I did find some of the information in this book useful, but I don't particularly care for the concept of the inner child as something split off or separate, as opposed to looking at people as whole human beings with core issues from our childhood. Although it is a difficult book in terms of reading level, I would reccommend Daniel Stern's The Interpersonal World of the Infan to get another, I believe more useful exploration of core issues.
The second issue I have with the book is that because he's trying to write for a general audience, the author uses checklists that I find rather broad. In order to really discover if a person has come from a dysfunctional (an over-used term in itself -- it is too subjective. Read chapter one of Normal Family Processes by Walsh to get a good discussion of this issue) family, work with a therapist is required.
That said, the author is a good writer, and the book is easy to follow. Some of his ideas about grief are right on, and I like the fact that he looks at human needs beyond Maslow's five (which he mislabels, by the way).
Rating: 1
Summary: This healed the CHILD IN ME
Comment: After the war with the Iraqi's, I reverted to my old self: I was sucking my thumb and wetting the bed at night. I was really messed up from the war and the torpedo accident. This book healed my inner child, and now I can shoot my guns again, and I dont wet the bed anymore. I re-enlisted in the marines, and I'm going back to the war and back to my former glory. Thanks Amazon.com.
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Title: A Gift to Myself by Charles Whitfield ISBN: 1558740422 Publisher: Health Communications Pub. Date: 01 January, 1990 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Healing the Shame That Binds You by John Bradshaw ISBN: 0932194869 Publisher: Health Communications Pub. Date: 01 October, 1988 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Boundaries and Relationships by Charles Whitfield ISBN: 155874259X Publisher: Health Communications Pub. Date: 01 April, 1994 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Homecoming : Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child by John Bradshaw ISBN: 0553353896 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 February, 1992 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: An Adult Child's Guide to What's Normal by John C. Friel Ph.D., Linda D. Friel M.A. ISBN: 1558740902 Publisher: Health Communications Pub. Date: 01 September, 1990 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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