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Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic Paperback – October 5, 2021
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A Journey Toward Understanding, Active Treatment, and Societal Prevention of Trauma
Imagine, if you will, a disease―one that has only subtle outward symptoms but can hijack your entire body without notice, one that transfers easily between parent and child, one that can last a lifetime if untreated. According to Dr. Paul Conti, this is exactly how society should conceptualize trauma: as an out-of-control epidemic with a potentially fatal prognosis.
In Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic, Dr. Conti examines the most recent research, clinical best practices, and dozens of real-life stories to present a deeper and more urgent view of trauma. Not only does Dr. Conti explain how trauma affects the body and mind, he also demonstrates that trauma is transmissible among close family and friends, as well as across generations and within vast demographic groups.
With all this in mind, Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic proposes a course of treatment for the seemingly untreatable. Here, Dr. Conti traces a step-by-step series of concrete changes that we can make both as individuals and as a society to alleviate trauma’s effects and prevent further traumatization in the future.
You will discover:
• The different post-trauma syndromes, how they are classified, and their common symptoms
• An examination of how for-profit health care systems can inhibit diagnosis and treatment of trauma
• How social crises and political turmoil encourage the spread of group trauma
• Methods for confronting and managing your fears as they arise in the moment
• How trauma disrupts mental processes such as memory, emotional regulation, and logical decision-making
• The argument for a renewed humanist social commitment to mental health and wellness
It’s only when we understand how a disease spreads and is sustained that we are able to create its ultimate cure. With Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic, Dr. Conti reveals that what we once considered a lifelong, unbeatable mental illness is both treatable and preventable.
- Print length200 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherSounds True Adult
- Publication dateOctober 5, 2021
- Dimensions6 x 0.5 x 8.85 inches
- ISBN-101683647351
- ISBN-13978-1683647355
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“Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic will be a game changer. It provides not only the wisdom and intelligence of the author―an experienced professional in the worlds of psychiatry and sociology―but unlike other intellectual books written about trauma, Paul’s offers a multitude of solutions. These practical responses to trauma address everything from physical and mental health to encouraging self-care and correcting unhealthy behaviors. Trauma affects countless individuals and families, and Paul’s book is carefully thought out and explained in ways that are understandable to everyone. Wisdom and patience prevail in his unique outlook on a subject that has been largely ignored by doctors for years. It’s a must-read for professionals as well as anyone who has experienced trauma or other psychological stressors.” ―Tommy Hilfiger, entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist
“Dr. Conti is a physician and psychiatrist, and a person who has been through a lot, too. This gives him a unique perspective on how people function and how traumas can change us, specifically how traumas lead us to think and act differently without understanding why. Dr. Conti explains how trauma interacts with the way our brains work and how trauma is affected by certain aspects of society, and he does so with vivid illustrations of real people and their lives. But this book doesn’t just stop there. Dr. Conti also provides real solutions―solutions people can use for themselves and their loved ones, and solutions to help make the world a kinder and safer place.” ―Kim Kardashian, actress, producer, and businesswoman
“Paul Conti is one of the most unique and thoughtful physicians I have ever met. His approach to psychiatry is interactive both with the patient and with the referring physician. I have a large, successful concierge practice in New York and am often asked to see patients with complicated medical issues. Of all of the consultants I refer patients to, Paul is the most effective. Any time I have a patient with a complicated medical history and many previous evaluations, I reach out to Paul, who has taught me to look for and find the underlying trauma in their lives. Paul, my patients and I thank you for teaching me to be a better physician.” ―Bernard Kruger, MD, oncologist and cofounder of Sollis Health
“After reading Paul Conti’s excellent book, Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic, I now understand that trauma exists in all of us. Sometimes we remember it, but even when we can’t, it remembers us, keeping us from living our lives fully. Until we can identify it and bring it to the light, we exist with fears, anxieties, and masks that keep us from living in the light. Paul Conti’s book helps us identify the trauma(s) we have endured in our lives and helps us move toward healing―no small task in today’s traumatic world.” ―Carole Bayer Sager, Golden Globe– and Academy Award–winning lyricist, singer, and songwriter
“I’ve known Paul Conti for nearly 25 years, and over the course of that time I have been privileged to witness, and benefit from, both his brilliance and his insight into the human condition. Paul has lived through terrible tragedies and, as such, can speak to the important subject of trauma as both a clinical expert and a regular person who has suffered and struggled as so many of us have. Paul’s impact on my own life, and the lives of many of my patients, has been greater than I could ever explain on the back of a book jacket.” ―Peter Attia, MD, physician, consultant, and cofounder of Zero
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- Publisher : Sounds True Adult (October 5, 2021)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 200 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1683647351
- ISBN-13 : 978-1683647355
- Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.5 x 8.85 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #38,134 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #74 in Popular Neuropsychology
- #127 in Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
- #179 in Popular Psychology Pathologies
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Its medicalized methods aren't sustainable either. They can be stigmatizing and traumatizing, a dehumanizing process for both patient and practitioner in which mental and emotional states are taken as signifiers of something “wrong” that needs to be “cured,” where diagnostic language objectifies the patient and asserts practitioner authority.
Treatment also routinely serves as a form of punishment, and several methods deserve critique as deliberate or unconscious strategies to press individuals to conform, for their lack of attention to developmental and relational or physiological needs. The therapist's office can also become the holding tank for patients with treatment-resistant physical suffering who have been slapped with a psychiatric diagnosis instead…
From a bird’s eye view, the system of care can look like a labyrinth of chutes by which individuals can effortlessly internalize the failures, disconnects, ills and evils happening around them, and by which they can further isolate and numb or fail to get traction in their lives. With pharmaceuticals facilitating throughput and the management of heavy caseloads, the hatch on the deeper realities and festering wounds gets heavier and heavier to lift.
Rather than railing against the system, Conti offers a model for stepping in as individuals to right the ship—to set a course for honoring the human condition, where both healthy boundaries and relational exchange can coexist.
He has divested himself of the hierarchical language and positionality of the medical field, and his own subjectivity is woven throughout the book. Writing as both human and healer, he shines a soft and gentle light into recesses of shame and traces suffering within an expanded context of culture, community, family history, economics, national politics, historical events, and inevitably occurring life experiences. Even as the failures of the mental health care complex come into exponentially greater dimension through his lens, he holds steady, delivering the wisdom of experience and a well spring of humanity. There’s no splitting or blaming, but an invitation, a call to provide care and a demonstration of the breadth of the need.
If you are in deep distress, this might not be the book to start with but it could serve as an essential corollary and supplement to your healing process. Going deep into the nature of one’s own suffering requires multiple layers of support, and what is needed for the nervous system doesn’t come solely in the cognitive and solitary space of reading a book. But for those situations when we are in a position to provide care, this is a critically important book to take to heart. It is likewise a great model if you are committed to sustainability, integration or systems change.
“Trauma: The invisible Epidemic” to all my patients. and I’ll be re-reading it many times.
Also I was moved by some of the real life experiences told in the book.
It is one of the better books out there.
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Reviewed in Canada on January 18, 2023