The 4Fs model (fight, flight, freeze, fawn) is good, but the typology is too rigid, favoring crispness and clarity over accuracy. I was able to recognize my triggered behaviors by believing the types, but NOT the "combination" types.
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The book's explicit model logically implies that nearly everyone has CPTSD (e.g. it points out that recovery from CPTSD creates above-"normal" emotional intelligence), but it stops a bit short of being willing to actually say this.
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It also implies a much lower level of institutional betrayal than in fact exists, claims that it's safe to assume that the authorities are on your side. Blind to Betrayal and Achilles in Vietnam might be a useful corrective to this.
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Its description of the Inner Critic layer was sufficiently verbally loaded that I wasn't able to notice mine for a while - for me, it consists of the *feeling* of shame about engaging in triggered behaviors, not verbalized self-judgments. (I have the same problem with CBT.)
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It leans harder than I'd like towards blaming parents, which I think may be an unavoidable developmental stage for people still stuck in a scapegoating mentality, but is unjust and I'd have liked a more precise finesse of that issue (as well as more clarity on systemic abuse).
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Even so, it's the first book on the subject of PTSD that I was able to *actually use*, and led to immediate opening up, creating clarity about and processing trauma, and I'm grateful to Pete Walker for writing it.
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More on the CPTSD book:https://twitter.com/ben_r_hoffman/status/1216799721802686465 …
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