Injuries Books

Shifting The Burden Of Truth is a ground-breaking book for the victim or survivor of sexual abuse and/or incest! One should never enter into a life-changing decision without the proper information and support and this book provides lots of both. It is written in a warm and supportive style and all legal jargon is explained so that it is understandable to the average person.My story is in this book under a pseudonym--but even if that were not the case,this book changed my life and was my constant companion during a very difficult journey!

A systematic and thorough guidebook for victims of child abuse, which provides explanations of what the laws are and how they can work for the victim. Although this book is now five years old, its lessons are invaluable. You see, in a CRIMINAL case, it is up to the VICTIM to prove the case. But if the victim SUES the attacker, the situation is reversed. All parents should read this book

Having read and re-read this tightly written book in preparation for exams, I can say without doubt that he clearly and simply explains how to diagnose and treat shoulder problems-- many of which are hard to distinguish. The pictures aren't great but the models are good-looking--and its short enough to read the whole thing.

Five hours with this book and you will be an expert shoulder diagnostician. The copy is clear and insightful. A real find for physical therapists.

Dr. Boyle does a great job of providing practical guidance for children's sports injuries. Diagrams show you what happened, and text tells you how to treat it. Poked eyes, twisted ankles and broken bones are all discussed in a way that helps adults do the right thing to treat and prevent further injury. I'm keeping mine on the shelf.

The author wrote this book in layman's terms. I didn't have to go to a medical dictionary on every page!! I appreciated the way the author broke down the medical problems by sport. I found the tips to parents a good reminder to me about putting sports in the proper perspective.

Good compendium of current day management of thoracic trauma.

This is a great text from a world-class trauma center (Harborview in Seattle) with concise, readable chapters written and edited by surgeons that take care of patients with bad chest injuries full-time and day after day. There is a wealth of basic science and tricks-of-the-trade that make the care of these patients so interesting and rewarding. Every traumatologist, combat surgeon and pulmonary doc should have a copy on the shelf.

The chapter on analgesia modalities for patients with pulmonary contusion is especially useful and practical.

Looking forward to more texts from this dynamic surgical group.

Creo que se trata de un buen texto en general, aunque me parece débil en la extensión y profundidad de los aspectos biomecánicos y de control motor tanto en la explicación de los mecanismos de producción como en la fundamentación de los programas de prevención de las lesiones del LCA. Creo también que hubo pocos autores del campo de la rehabilitación deportiva propiamente tal (sports physical therapy). A pesar de lo anteriormente expuesto, me parece que este libro viene a llenar un importante vacío en la literatura ortopédica. Esperaré ansioso la siguiente edición.

ACL injuries happen up to eight times more freqnently in female atheltes than male athletes of similar competitive level, who are competing in the same sport. This book discusses in detail the more current reserach and theories regarding how these injuries happen, why females have so many more of these types of injuries than males, and talks about ways to possibly prevent a female athlete from sustaining one of these injuries.

This book is written and edited by leaders in the field of ACL injury epidemiology. Being a researcher in this area myself, I having talked with many of the authors of this book, I can say from experience they are the best in the field, though there are a few additional authors that are also in that elite group that could have been included.

The book is mostly well-written and has a gives good, practical examples. It also does a good job of making the research discussed easy to understand for the casual reader. The main reason I got it is because nearly every study released on ACL injuries prior to the end of 2006 is discussed, making it a great reference book.

Every coach of female atheltes and every parent of a female athelte should read this book. It may prevent a twelve-month recovery process and $30,000 injury from happening to an athlete you know. And at the price Amazon has it at, it is a worthy investment.

Bought it for my teenage nephew and he loved it. You can learn practical tips to scenarios that would never happen. Of course we hear that these type of things do happen but c'mon. What are the odds. That is the predicament that the book puts readers in. They are reading facts on how to get of predicaments that may happen but will very likely never will. I would put it in the humor category.

`The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook' tackles some unavoidable questions everyone has asked themselves in some form. Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht have tackled these questions and came up with some clever answers - and logic behind it. They attempt to answer some of man worst fears head-on - while convincing this reader they know what they are writing about

For instance, how to escape from Quicksand? How to wrestle an alligator - and live to tell about it? How to land airplane? How to take a punch?

With simple prose and illustrations, Piven and Borgenicht have put some people's worst fears to task. In 5 chapters, their collection of survival skills will surely give you the knowledge you need to escape from sometimes bizarre situations.

The book's writers make convincing suggestions and realistic reasons. This book performs no comedy, no jokes, or any hypothetical situations. It's true to its form.

I recommend this book to anyone looking for quick survival tips and anyone who has pondered life's dire situations and wishes to walk away in one piece from them.

The `Worst Case Scenario Survival Book' is invaluable!

I purchased this for my 10 year old son to listen to in the car. He really liked it although he didn't understand some of the car and motercycle stunts. Now he thinks he knows what to do if he encounters an alligator or shark. Adults may not find it as fasinating.

I read the book. I saw a car accident. I can't go into further details because it is illegal to perform medical procedures without a degree in medicine. The boy didn't survive (he was brain dead immediately (happens when your head takes a cars bumper)) but his body did and was used to keep two other kids alive.

My worst case scenario, as a former SAR (Search And Rescue) team member, is recovering some poor jerk who had this book in his pack. Hmmm, now why didn't he survive? This book is entertaining, but I'd no more read it for survival information that I'd read the Enquirer for news. Has the author ever tried to punch anything underwater? Not very effective on sharks or anything else for that matter.It is downright dangerous for the person who feels this skimpy book gives him/her the knowledge to survive their way out of a paper bag let alone a real survival situation. The fact that it sells well is an abject lesson in the miracles of marketing and the desire of people to feel secure in their "knowledge" without actually doing anything. Being prepared takes effort! Laugh about, joke about it but don't depend on it, as it says on the back " CAUTION: This book will explode if scanned."

I first read this book while my son was still doing a lot of diving. The book resonated with me as it is as much about the relationship of a father and son as it is about diving. It also is set in the context of the U-Who German Submarine that divers were trying to identify at the time so it contains WWII history info and local dive history. I thought it was a great book and recommend it.

One of my favorite dive books. The story of a father and son dive team and their tragic accident. Well written and gripping story of what happens when you get complacent. Just a good book that really pulls you in and keeps you in till the end. Written in a way to really get you attached to the characters.

"The Last Dive" is a very engaging read that is every bit as much about why people take risks at the edge of human ability (diving, mountain climbing, racing, etc.), their personalities, and their weaknesses, as it is about Chris and Chrissy Rouse and their fatal dive on the U-Who.

Although I found "Shadow Divers" and "Deep Descent" a bit more riveting; after the somewhat flowery prose of the initial couple of chapters, "The Last Dive" did an excellent job of bringing me into the club of elite cave and wreck divers, introducing the history and exploits of the key divers including the Rouses, helping to understand a bit of what motivates these divers to make the deep dives and take the risks they do, introducing some of the key wrecks that help to set the stage, and taking you inside the head of the author as he experiences the same fascination, thrill, fever, risk, and pain of a dive gone bad.

The author is a friend of many of the key divers and has personally made many of the same cave and wreck dives and has been through a serious episode of the bends, so he knows what he is talking about. He does a good job of describing technical issues in lay terms, so "The Last Dive" will engage the diver and non-diver alike.

While the lives and personalities of Chris and Chrissy Rouse are a thread running through "The Last Dive"; it is just as much the author's story and that of the other deep wreck divers who take the same risks, and their inner needs and drive to do so. Once you get through the first two chapters, you will find "The Last Dive" to be a page-turning adventure.

Definitely read the postlog chapter, "Ever Deeper". It's not the same rate of adventure as the rest of the book, but the additional information about many of the divers, advances in the science and psychology of deep wreck diving, and further information about identifying the U-Who (covered better in Shadow Divers) is worth the additional reading.

If you are looking for a great book about scuba diving you search has ended. The last dive is amazing and is a great story about a diving family and their quest for improvement.

This isn't Shadow Divers. This isn't written like a NY Times bestseller. It doesn't intensify or create drama like some other books do to try to captivate your interest. This book is written by a diver and is most appreciated by a fellow diver. Some complain of tangents which they say detract from the father and son story. These only serve to richen the experience for me. It not only tells the story but teaches valuable lessons and makes a diver desire further understanding on the many subject which are touched upon.

a fascinating and remarkably candid memoir written by another brilliant and compassionate woman: That's How the Light Gets In: Memoir of a Psychiatrist by Susan Rako, M.D. The title comes from a song by Leonard Cohen: "There is a crack, a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." Rako was herself notably a "gifted child," -- actually a child prodigy on the piano who performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra at age 14, and who became a psychiatrist to heal herself and others on the journey founded on courage to stand to one's own truth. Rako's memoir is wonderfully well-written and a great read. The writing just flows.

I read this book for the first time when it was first published and it had a great impact on me and on understanding how I had grown. It was painful but at the same time healing. I continue reading it and it continues having those characteristics. Thanks

Great read for adults who were parentified as children by their own parents, and helping you to cope with and MOVE PAST the legacy and wounds your parents accidentally left you with. They learned it from their parents, and it's important to break the cycle if you don't want to pass it to your children too. You will, unless you work very hard to heal the wounds. It's inevitable.

Alice Miller explains how a lot of us have been affected from childhood. The book flows well and is a page turner when you see that a lot of the situations relate to you in some way. I highly recommend it to anyone who is looking to improve themselves!

Reading books about psychology, especially books dealing with childhood trauma, is a bit like looking into a shattered mirror. Some parts will accurately reflect aspects of one's own psyche; other parts will be too distorted to have any relevance. As far as mirrors go, I think Alice Miller's "The Drama of the Gifted Child" provides for excellent viewing.

The core of the book is about narcissism, or more precisely, the way that children are negatively affected by the emotional unavailability and/or abuse of their parents. These emotional wounds can create severe dysfunctions and personality disorders later in life - disorders over which the victim has absolutely no control, unless they begin the long and painful road towards breaking out of their "Inner Prison" (as Miller puts it).

Early editions of this book used a lot more psychological jargon, and the revised edition makes things quite clear and concise for the layman, without losing the essential concepts: the role and critical responsibility of the primary object (usually mother); the suppression/repression of feelings in favour of a need to please; the cycles of grandiosity and depression; contempt and its role in perversion and obsession; compulsion to repeat behaviours; the societal role in propagating psychologically diseased values through generations; the severe shortcomings of tradition psychotherapeutic methods (although this was first published in 1979), and the key to healing - consciously experiencing hidden emotional pain.

The case studies and quotes from patients are relevant and add an extra dimension to the theory. I found that some of the examples struck a stronger emotional chord than Miller's own observations, which is important if one is reading a book to gain insight rather than for simple curiosity.

Although a short book at approximately 126 pages, there is very little "fluff" or filling in it. Miller gets straight to the point and has little patience for "parental apologia", which is an approach I think needs to be taken. It seems from other reviews though that some parents bought the book thinking it would affirm their own notions of their child's "giftedness", and were a little "miffed" to find out that wasn't the case. In my opinion, parents like these are the exact reason professionals like Miller need to focus the lens directly on their behaviour.

While it is somewhat of a cliché these days to blame one's parents for one's neuroses, that isn't really the point; responsibility for healing rests with the victim, not the perpetrator. This is something Miller makes clear, although the point is better made in other books, notably Martha Stout's "The Myth of Sanity: Divided Consciousness and the Promise of Awareness".

That the book is now still in print and in its 3rd revision is a testament to its long-term appeal. Despite having read it twice now, I still find revisits to be enlightening and worthwhile. I am very glad to have it on my bookshelf and consider it money well spent.

Readers with a deep interest in the subject may also find "The Narcissistic Family: Diagnosis and Treatment", "Why Is It Always About You? : The Seven Deadly Sins of Narcissism", "Unholy Hungers: Encountering the Psychic Vampire in Ourselves & Others" and the previously mentioned "Myth of Sanity" to be excellent sources of additional information.

Overall, an immensely valuable work and I thank Ms. Miller for her long-term efforts in sharing such important knowledge with the wider public.

This is a very entertaining book, and you need not be an English major or academic to enjoy it. Some of the reviews here are perhaps a bit stuffier than the book warrants (showing off a bit?). Yes, there are insider jokes and allusions that some readers will get and some will not, but this is still at heart a farce. You are meant to laugh, and you will. As an aging English major, I especially enjoyed the skewering of deconstructionism, however everyone and everything in academia is fair game for Hynes. He is at times too crude for my sensibilities, so I've docked him a star. With that one caveat, I highly recommend this novel.

If you work in academia you'll be bowled over by Hynes' utterly hilarious and deadly accurate rendering of recognizable faculty personality types. It's a tad long and repetitive but impossible to put down anyway.

Hynes skewers every academic stereotype, the feminist dictator, the European narcissistic poet, the sad sack part-time composition instructor, etc., in this page-turning novel, which is a hybrid, half gothic or horror tale, half satire. It's amazing how he blends the two genres. Some lowly functionary who just lost his teaching position gets into an accident whereby he becomes afflicted with strange demonic powers which help him ascend the academic latter and reveal the academic frauds who surround him. Written like a Charles Dickens novel, The Lecturer's Tale is a rare, one of a kind book that will be enjoyed by academics and nonacademics alike. Lovers of this horror satire will want to check out James Lasdun's The Horned Man, which also takes place on a college campus and includes many gothic elements. Another similarly delicious book is The Devil's Own Work by Alan Judd.

The stereotypical characters and the lengths to which they will go in the game of "one-upsmanship" are not confined to the world of the academic. Look around folks! The power hungry thrive in every walk of life...politics, industry, etc. Everyman seeks power in his own little world.

To truly understand and enjoy most of the literary allusions and nuances in this book, one must be either an academic, an English lit major, or both. This is definitely not a book for the "man in the street". (It could, however, qualify as an example of seeking "power in your own little world"......as in "only we who have an in-depth knowledge and understanding of literature will be able to understand all the subtle "inside jokes").

Finally, the "Twilight Zone" quality of the final few chapters leads one to question if Nelson Humboldt wasn't really suffering from schizophrenia and had gone off his meds.

If you're an academic, you gotta read this. Especially if you're mixed up with a literature department. Hynes has written one of the great satires of the American university, maybe the greatest. In The Lecturer's Tale, the Faust legend meets Derrida, Bloom, Foucault, Iragary, and Lacan (did I leave someone out?) with hilarious results as Hynes's antihero, an instructor on the margins of a major English department is blessed, and of course cursed, with a Twilight Zone-style power of reading minds, which he intends to parlay into the only thing more ego-enhancing than Faustian power - academic tenure.

Anyone who can identify all the critics I've listed above will love this book, provided they're not followers of any of them. The final epistemological episode in the bell tower will do a number on your mind.

Hynes's other academic fiction, Publish and Perish, is in a similar spirit, and also very enjoyable. But The Lecturer's Tale deserves to become a true cult classic. The caricatures are dead on. And right on, too.

So if your sense of humor hasn't yet been crushed and ground in the Mills of Cultural Theory, drop that dissertation right now and dig into this zestily renchant slice of academic (sur)reality.

I am a professional counselor who works with many individuals with self-harming problems. This book has been very helpful in order to understand their perspective and their behaviors. It was a great resource that enabled me to look beyond the behavior and to see what is really going on for them. I would definitely recommend it to both the professionals and individuals who are looking for great insight.

Hello,

This is the best book on this very special and misunderstood problem. If you can only get one book, buy this book and share it with anyone you know.

Andrew Levander

this is a thought-provoking book about self-injury and healing. the book is well-written and very descriptive. many narratives are used in the text, and this helps to create a greater understanding of individual experiences and struggles. this is important because each of us experiences things in our own way. that perception then becomes reality for us. once that happens, we find ways to deal with the emotional intensity that this can create. for many, the coping mechanism of choice is self-injury. self-injury is very difficult for many people to understand--even those who self-mutilate often come to treatment without a real understanding of why they harm themselves. once you understand the chain of events, you can start to better understand the compulsive nature of this behavior, the way in which the self-injurer sees self-harm as the only alternative, the only way to obtain some relief from the present experience. one caveat--i disagree with the authors' depiction of self-mutilation as NOT a manifestation of addiction. in my work with patients who self-injure, it has become very clear to me that this behavior feels very compulsive and can become habitual. also, in line with the AA model of treating addiction, patients most often do better when they recognize the power that self-injury has over them and start to explore the origins of their psychological pain in an attempt to stop expressing this pain through self-harm. information on the SAFE Alternatives program is also very helpful. statistics regarding success and healing are very encouraging, and these authors clearly have a good thing going. another excellent read is marilee strong's book *a bright red scream: self-mutilation and the language of pain.*

AMAZING. I read this book last spring when I was a freshman in college and had fallen back into the nightmarish mess of self-injury. At the time I was just looking for comfort, not a solution, so I didn't tell anyone I'd read it--no way was I *ever* going to go to the SAFE program. However, once things spun super out-of-control, I made the opposite decision. SAFE was the hardest thing I've ever done, but definitely the most worth it. I still injure on occasion, but I have the most amazing support network, better coping mechanisms and distractions, and methods of logging impulses.

This book is the only book on the topic that I've read that has not been triggering for me. If you self-injure or if you love someone who injures, this is a must-read. Please do it for yourself. You don't have to be considering the program, just open yourself up. Nothing else worked for me before this.

I AM STRONG. You can be, too!

This book as some good points and the program it discusses may be very successful. My main problem with this book and most others on SI is it's emphasis on SI stemming from childhood abuse or trauma. I self-injured for nearly 4 years as a teen and have never been abused in any way. According to this book if I wasn't overtly abused, I was biologically frail and sensitive to less obvious abuse or trauma. That is just insulting. I am now a counselor myself and I can assure you, I was never abused. While many individuals who self-injure may have been abused I think it is time to acknowledge those who self-injure and weren't abused instead of simply dismissing their experiences.