The ACoA Trauma Syndrome: The Impact Of Childhood Pain On Adult Relationships
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Adult children of addicts and children from dysfunctional families often
carry silent, hidden wounds from the trauma of growing up with parental
addiction, abuse, or neglect. When they remain buried and unattended,
these wounds can reemerge and get played out in adult, intimate
partnerships and parenting, re-creating relationship dynamics that
mirror early pain.
In this authoritative guide, bestselling
author and renowned psychologist Dr. Tian Dayton explains the science
behind how trauma lives in the body/mind and shapes our neurobiology.
The ACoA Trauma Syndrome: The Impact of Childhood Pain on Adult
Relationships (HCI — $16.95) is for anyone who has lived with
dysfunction and trauma related to addiction, abuse, neglect, physical or
mental illness, military service, or cultural/ethnic or religious
prejudice. It is about facing, processing, and healing childhood pain,
marshaling strength and resilience, and taking charge of your own
emotional life.
Available at fine bookstores, online outlets or directly from the publisher: www.hcibooks.com
ISBN: 978-0-7573-1644-9
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Tian Dayton, MA, PhD, TEP, has a Masters in educational psychology and a PhD in clinical psychology
and is a board-certified trainer in psychodrama. She is also a licensed
Creative Arts Therapist and a certified Montessori teacher. Dr. Dayton
is the director of the New York Psychodrama Training Institute where she
runs training groups in psychodrama, sociometry, and experiential group
therapy. She created a model for treating trauma called Relationship
Trauma Repair, which is currently in use at treatment centers across the United States. She was also on the faculty at NYU for eight years teaching psychodrama.
Dayton is a fellow of the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and
Psychodrama, winner of their Scholar’s Award, editor in chief of the
Journal of Psychodrama, Sociometry & Group Psychotherapy, and sits
on the professional standards committee for ASGPP. She has been awarded
the Mona Mansell Award and the Ackerman/Black Award for contributions to
the field of addiction.
She has been a guest expert on NBC,
CNN, MSNBC, The Montel Williams Show, The Ricki Lake Show, The John
Walsh Show, and Geraldo. Dr. Dayton is the author of fifteen books
including Emotional Sobriety, Trauma and Addiction, Heartwounds, The
Living Stage, and Forgiving and Moving On. She has also written The
Process, an award-winning docudrama that uses psychodrama to tell
stories of addicts and ACOAs and Psychodrama and Trauma Resolution, a
comprehensive psychodrama training tape illustrating the effect of
unresolved trauma on the personality and its resolution through
psychodrama and sociometry. For more information, please visit www.tiandayton.com.
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