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Thirty Days with My Father: Finding Peace from War by Christal Presley

ISBN: 9780757316463 PUBLISHER: Health Communications FORMAT: Paperback PAGES: 250 PUBLICATION DATE: 6.12.2012 DIMENSIONS: 216mmX140mmX20mm 272grams

DESCRIPTION: Whether you are a professional who treats veterans and their loved ones, or a person at risk for military PTSD, or anyone who cares, you will be profoundly moved by this eloquent memoir. Frank Ochberg, MD, award-winning mental health expert who helped define the term post-traumatic stress disorder An incredible memoir . . . an important part of the still unhealed wounds of war. Christal has given as much of her heart to this story as her father gave to his country. Nikki Giovanni, world-renowned poet, writer, activist, and educator Thirty Days with My Father is an important addition to the literature of trauma psychology, shining a beacon of hope for transformation and healing. From the Foreword by Edward Tick, PhD, author, War and the Soul and founding co-director, Soldier's Heart To me, post-traumatic stress disorder was just a bunch of words. All I knew was that it had something to do with my father's brain, and he seemed to be going crazy. And I knew it was bad because my mom told me that if anyone found out how sick he was, they'd come and take him away forever, and they'd take me away too, and she couldn't live like that. If he had to be that sick, I wanted him to have something everybody could understand. So I picked brain cancer. From Thirty Days with My Father When Christal Presley's father was eighteen, he was drafted to Vietnam. Like many men of that era who returned home with pos

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