Complex PTSD by Pete Walker
$7.99
Complex PTSD
- From Surviving to Thriving
- By: Pete Walker,
- Narrated by: Paul Brion,
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Categories: Health & Wellness
Publisher’s Summary
The causes of Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder range from severe neglect to monstrous abuse. Many survivors grew up in houses that were not homes – in families that were as loveless as orphanages and sometimes as dangerous. If you felt unwanted, unliked, rejected, hated, and/or despised for a lengthy portion of your childhood, trauma may be deeply engrained in your mind, soul, and body.
This book is a practical guide to recovering from lingering childhood trauma. It is copiously illustrated with examples of the author’s and his clients’ journeys of recovering. It is a comprehensive self-help guide for working through the toxic legacy of the past and for achieving a rich and fulfilling life.
©2014 Pete Walker (P)2018 Tantor
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Voice for audiobook was intolerable
I have wanted to read this book for years, since I heard how important, unique and groundbreaking it was and how valuable it was to victims of trauma. When I realised it was available as an audiobook I was very excited. Luckily, I used a free credit to get the audiobook, because I was very disappointed to find that I couldn’t stand the vocal performance. It sounds like the kind of voice used for copyright warnings on VHS tapes, movie trailers from the same time period or “Dial 1 for option A” type phone recordings.
I knew as soon as I started listening that I wouldn’t be able to stand it, but I decided to try and give it a chance, since I was so excited about the book. After an hour, I still couldn’t stand it and gave up. I couldn’t get immersed in the content of the book because the voice was so jarring that it continually pulled me out of it.
The focus of the vocal performance seems to have been, firstly, to maintain unchanging, monotonous conformity to a singular, superficial and performative vocal aesthetic, and secondly, to carefully enunciate each individual word rather than expressing the meaning behind the words. The commitment to enunciating individual words was so total that at times it came at the expense of conveying the meaning of the sentence; emphasis placed on the incorrect word or pauses in unnatural places made the tone of the sentence sound garbled and robotic, like a voice simulator, confusing the author’s meaning.
This type of vocal style is suited to short messages of no emotional significance, not an entire book about psychological trauma, the impact of long-term abuse on your life and techniques to help you recover and heal. It’s so ill-suited that it has the effect of trivialising this deeply important content.
I cannot review the content of the book, since the voice was so distracting that I couldn’t absorb it even for an hour. I strongly recommend against getting this as an audiobook and instead recommend getting a physical copy.
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