Includes glossary

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Connection between trauma and addiction -- Emotions and emotional literacy -- How trauma and addiction undermine healthy styles of relating in families and intimate relationships -- Trauma in the body and in the brain: the body-mind connection -- Personality characteristics of adult children of trauma and addiction: what happened to me? -- Why am I stuck in this loop? -- Why isn't my life working the way I want it to? -- Letter writing as a healing tool: John's story -- Two different worlds: the social atom as a healing tool -- Journaling as a healing tool -- Photographs as a healing tool: Eva's story -- Psychodrama as a healing tool -- Character component-intangible aspects of recovery: resilience, mental set and integration -- Treatment -- Ounce of prevention: a case for emotional literacy -- Appendix -- Glossary of Psychodramatic Terms -- Bibliography -- Index.

"The author weaves solid scientific findings with her professional and personal experience into a thoughtful analysis of traumatic experience, secrecy and addictive behaviors"