Trauma Is a Thief

Neal King

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Halo Publishing International
06 September 2024

Biography: general; Child abuse; Sexual abuse & harassment; Gay & Lesbian studies; Coping with personal problems

Trauma Is a Thief is a memoir(ish) work whose author - a California-based, American, cisgender, White, gay-male psychologist, professor, and former college president - uses his own lived experiences of trauma in a very disturbed family (including sexual and physical abuse, abandonment, and multiple family addictions) to elucidate the developmental and lifelong impact of trauma.

In a deeply personal work, Neal offers his childhood as an illustrative case study as he invites the reader - applying his professional expertise as author, researcher, and clinician - inside his disturbed family and traumatic early life - and the years since as he has struggled in the aftermath toward healing and wholeness.

By: Neal King
Imprint: Halo Publishing International
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 603g
ISBN: 9781637656457
ISBN 10: 1637656459
Pages: 326
Publication Date: 06 September 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dr. Neal King has served as psychologist/psychotherapist, professor of psychology, author, keynote speaker, and college president in his professional life. He has worked with multiple survivors of trauma in his clinical practice.In ""Trauma Is a Thief"", he applies the same case-study methodology he used in his dissertation at UC Berkeley to his own lived experience in a deeply disturbed family.After living and working for several years in the San Francisco Bay Area, Neal lives with his partner of many years, Peter, in the Southern California of his youth, roughly midway between Los Angeles and San Diego. He is an avid photographer and loves to travel, read fiction, tend the roses, and visit local wineries.

Reviews for Trauma Is a Thief

A real rags-to-riches tale of the human spirit. The odyssey from abused child to emotionally isolated global vagabond, and finally to fulfilled, loving marriage partner, is nothing short of inspiring. It gives all of us wounded the hope and the impetus to keep striving for wholeness. And I'm still shaking my head at the wonder of this human being's ability to not only survive, but thrive and become an international leader in education. Remarkable. Truly incredible. To those of us who ask God (or whatever higher power you acknowledge) why we were given loving hearts only to have them broken, do not give up-read Trauma Is a Thief and meet the new day with optimism. You too can pull yourself out of the emotional muck and transform your life. Dr. King is living proof. -Ann Collins, Book Reviewer