TRANSCENDING TRAUMA

Healing Complex PTSD with Internal Family Systems

 

This title will be released on May 19, 2021.

 

 

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ABOUT THE BOOK
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
TESTIMONIALS

About the Book

Hope and light are on the horizon to help clients overcome the challenges of healing and releasing the pain of relational trauma.
The highly acclaimed Transcending Trauma explores a unique, compassionate, and evidence-based approach to resolving complex and dissociative trauma. In this transformative book Frank Anderson, MD, masterfully details an IFS path to therapy that allows clients to access their inherent capacity for healing – called Self-energy – while also helping them welcome, as opposed to manage, the extreme emotions frequently associated with trauma.

Included are clinical case examples, summary charts, current neuroscience research, and personal stories that will enable your clients to reclaim self-connection, experience self-love, and regain the ability to connect with and love others. Designed with clinicians in mind, this book offers a comprehensive map to complex trauma treatment that will enable readers to:

BlueCheck_transparent20Learn how to stay calm and steady in the presence of extreme symptoms
BlueCheck_transparent20Discover a different approach to resolving attachment trauma
BlueCheck_transparent20Gain confidence when addressing shame, neglect, and dissociation
BlueCheck_transparent20Understand the neurobiology of PTSD and dissociation
BlueCheck_transparent20Integrate neuroscience-informed therapeutic interventions
BlueCheck_transparent20Incorporate IFS with other models of treatment

"A crucial contribution that brings clarity and light to the often dark, confusing journey of treating complex PTSD"

Richard Schwartz, PhD

Founder of Internal Family Systems (IFS)

About Frank Anderson, MD

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Frank Anderson, MD, completed his residency and was a clinical instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is both a psychiatrist and psychotherapist and specializes in the treatment of trauma and dissociation. He is passionate about teaching brain-based psychotherapy and integrating current neuroscience knowledge with the IFS model of therapy.

Dr. Anderson is a lead trainer at the IFS Institute with Richard Schwartz and maintains a long affiliation with, and trains for, Bessel van der Kolk’s Trauma Center. He serves as an advisor to the International Association of Trauma Professionals (IATP) and was the former chair and director of the Foundation for Self-Leadership.

Dr. Anderson has lectured extensively on the Neurobiology of PTSD and Dissociation and wrote the chapter “Who’s Taking What” Connecting Neuroscience, Psychopharmacology and Internal Family Systems for Trauma in Internal Family Systems Therapy – New Dimensions. He co-authored a chapter on “What IFS Brings to Trauma Treatment in Innovations and Elaborations in Internal Family Systems Therapy” and recently co-authored Internal Family Systems Skills Training Manual.

Dr. Anderson maintains a private practice in Concord, MA.

TESTIMONIALS

"With the help of exquisite personal anecdotes, Anderson explains the deeper origins of apparently irrational and self-destructive behaviors that people have developed to deal with overwhelming realities. Most of all, he describes how to guide people in reclaiming “self-leadership” and taking back ownership of their lives. This is a wonderful book that should be read by anyone who wants to lay down the burdens of past trauma and those who seek to accompany them on this journey"

Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD

Author of New York Times bestselling The Body Keeps the Score
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"With his deeply compassionate attitude, Frank Anderson masterfully combines his years of clinical wisdom with the insights of neuroscience to create a definitive work on the treatment of complex trauma with IFS. This is a book that can and should be read by all therapists who work with trauma."

Janina Fisher, PhD

Author of Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma
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"In Transcending Trauma, Frank Anderson offers a methodical, clear, and highly instructive pathway to healing complex trauma through IFS, an astute therapeutic approach that is logically presented and generously illustrated with case examples and enriched by personal insights."

Gabor Maté, MD

Author, When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection