Victims of Cruelty Paperback by Maryanna Eckberg; Foreword by Peter A. Levine, Ph.D.

Product Details

• Publisher: North Atlantic Books (2000-11-22)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 272 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781556433535
• Item Weight: 371.95 grams
• Dimensions: 9.0 x 6.0 x 0.6 cm

In Victims of Cruelty, Maryanna Eckberg incorporates work with Vietnam veterans (the first to be diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder) and the Chowchilla kidnapping victims. This personal testimony of how people can heal after trauma is also a professional book describing the effects of personal and political repression and how we can liberate our bodies and minds from terror.

About the Author

Maryanna Eckberg devoted her career to helping trauma victims and the victims of political torture. She worked for many years in El Salvador with the Commission on Human Rights, and at the Universidad Jose Simeon Canas. Her work during the last years of her life focused on publishing and speaking on somatic and verbal interventions in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder. She died in October of 1999.