Psychotherapist and writer Gita Mammen has worked with survivors of childhood abuse since the mid-1980s. She trained in medicine and psychiatry and her subsequent involvement with Complex Trauma has spanned public, private, academic and not-for-profit health sectors, and ministerial advisory committees on mental health and women’s health. Gita has written, spoken, taught and lobbied for better availability of complex-trauma-specific mental healthcare. Her previous book on the subject, After Abuse, 2006, was written for multidisciplinary health practitioners. Gita lives in Melbourne, Australia.

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• Part One: Consequences of Childhood Abuse:1.Abuse Memory and Adult Functioning2.Childhood Injury Sequence3.Adult Everyday Transactions4.Adult Mental HealthPart Two: Resilience-Based Complex-Trauma Health-care: 5.Crisis of Disclosure: Early Help6.Triggers and Symptoms: Medium-term Help7.Faces of Complexity: Long-term HelpPart Three: Reclaiming Potential8.A Curious Lag9.Health-care and Sexual Trauma10.Personal Agency

Psychotherapist and writer Gita Mammen has worked with survivors of childhood abuse since the mid-1980s. She trained in medicine and psychiatry and her subsequent involvement with Complex Trauma has spanned public, private, academic and not-for-profit health sectors, and ministerial advisory committees on mental health and women’s health. Gita has written, spoken, taught and lobbied for better availability of complex-trauma-specific mental healthcare. Her previous book on the subject, After Abuse, 2006, was written for multidisciplinary health practitioners. Gita lives in Melbourne, Australia.

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• Part One: Consequences of Childhood Abuse:1.Abuse Memory and Adult Functioning2.Childhood Injury Sequence3.Adult Everyday Transactions4.Adult Mental HealthPart Two: Resilience-Based Complex-Trauma Health-care: 5.Crisis of Disclosure: Early Help6.Triggers and Symptoms: Medium-term Help7.Faces of Complexity: Long-term HelpPart Three: Reclaiming Potential8.A Curious Lag9.Health-care and Sexual Trauma10.Personal Agency

Psychotherapist and writer Gita Mammen has worked with survivors of childhood abuse since the mid-1980s. She trained in medicine and psychiatry and her subsequent involvement with Complex Trauma has spanned public, private, academic and not-for-profit health sectors, and ministerial advisory committees on mental health and women’s health. Gita has written, spoken, taught and lobbied for better availability of complex-trauma-specific mental healthcare. Her previous book on the subject, After Abuse, 2006, was written for multidisciplinary health practitioners. Gita lives in Melbourne, Australia.

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• Part One: Consequences of Childhood Abuse:1.Abuse Memory and Adult Functioning2.Childhood Injury Sequence3.Adult Everyday Transactions4.Adult Mental HealthPart Two: Resilience-Based Complex-Trauma Health-care: 5.Crisis of Disclosure: Early Help6.Triggers and Symptoms: Medium-term Help7.Faces of Complexity: Long-term HelpPart Three: Reclaiming Potential8.A Curious Lag9.Health-care and Sexual Trauma10.Personal Agency