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Stories of Survival and Transformation After Trauma
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The Sunday Times bestselling authors of The Devil You Know return with a life-affirming, myth-busting exploration of trauma, resilience, and healing. What does a traumatic event do to someone's identity? How do we talk about unbearable loss? Can trauma be passed from parents to children? What...
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The Sunday Times bestselling authors of The Devil You Know return with a life-affirming exploration of trauma and healing.
The Sunday Times bestselling authors of The Devil You Know return with a life-affirming exploration of trauma, resilience and healing.
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The Sunday Times bestselling authors of The Devil You Know return with a life-affirming, myth-busting exploration of trauma, resilience, and healing.
What does a traumatic event do to someone's identity? How do we talk about unbearable loss? Can trauma be passed from parents to children? What happens when trauma goes unspoken? How can we best help people after profoundly traumatic experiences?
Dr Gwen Adshead invites us into her clinic to witness her work with a range of patients who have faced life-changing distress, from a widow fleeing conflict to the survivors of children's home abuse, from the victim of a mugging to a prisoner of war. As she listens to their experiences, she helps these individuals to find new thoughts and new ways of relating to their bodies, their minds, their present. Their growth lies not in recovering the old self, but in discovering the new.
Unspeakable is filled with powerful insights on suffering and hope, and how the hardest words to speak help us to heal.
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ISBN: 9780571385256
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 26 February 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Edition: Export - Airside ed
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
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Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 320
About the Author
Dr Gwen Adshead has worked as a forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist in the NHS for three decades, including within prisons and secure hospitals. She has published over one hundred academic works; holds an MA in Medical Law and Ethics and an honorary doctorate from St George's Hospital Medical School and has lectured widely, including the BBC Reith Lectures in 2024. She is the co-author of the Sunday Times bestseller The Devil You Know.
Eileen Horne is a writer and dramatist. She worked for twenty years as a television drama producer and has been an editor, media lecturer and translator. She is the author of three non-fiction books and the scriptwriter of numerous BBC radio dramas. She is the co-author of The Devil You Know.
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