Book description
Stacey is living exactly the right life before she hits the psychological equivalent of a patch of black ice.
As Professor Hettes, her classes focus as much on neuroscience's beauty and wonder as its facts and theories. Fellow faculty members see her as a fair but outspoken leader on a…
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1 author picked Dispatches from the Couch as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
After a triggering incident at work reactivates paralyzing memories of her childhood sexual abuse, neuroscience professor Stacey Hettes reenters therapy. Her courageous account of therapy from the client's perspective is all the more powerful because of her clear explanations about the ways that trauma rewires the brain.
This is an exquisitely written, sometimes gut-wrenching, and ultimately hopeful story about a woman's strength, a family's complicated love, and a therapist's intelligence and persistence.
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