The ACoA Trauma Syndrome
Tian Dayton
About this book
Tian Dayton, PhD applies the latest trauma research to adult children of alcoholics and dysfunctional families — documenting how relational trauma becomes encoded in the body and nervous system, and offering a path to recovery through group work and psychodrama.
Key themes
- How family dysfunction becomes encoded in the body and nervous system
- The inner child: the emotional self frozen at the age of wounding
- Psychodrama and role-playing as tools for trauma recovery
- Patterns in adult children: hypervigilance, loyalty, and approval-seeking
- Group healing as a reenactment and repair of the family system
About the author
Tian Dayton, PhD is a psychologist, fellow of the American Society of Psychodrama, and director of The New York Psychodrama Training Institute. She has worked in addiction recovery and trauma for more than thirty years.
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