Aidan R

It's hard not to laugh at this book's wild and speculative claims pretending to be scientific. My Grandmother's Hands might be useful in subduing the spasms of trauma victims trying to escape trauma bonding, but it does not establish reasoning far beyond the author's lived experiences. This book may be difficult to read for people who are not easily brainwashed by public opinion, insofar as its critics on Amazon included people trying to group the author into a "toxic masculinity" category. That critique is false, but its sensational psychobabble tempered by an earnest interest in the reader's well being prove that there's a sucker born every minute and if you can endure this book you can probably believe anything. Yes, I am critiquing a critique of the thing I am critiquing. I was given the book by a woman at a gas station and regret every second I've spent painstakingly checking my sanity against an insidious glimpse into the depths of a bio-provocateur. A bio provocateur is someone who entreats you to reject a concept of society which is not first biological, i.e. you were born traumatized and reading his book could change your body! This book will challenge your ability to think freely or rationally. Some features of this snake oil include: -Encouraging the reader to feel pain, and suggesting that while we may not enjoy it, it is good for everyone (how is that not an invitation to BDSM)? -Super-biological trauma defects in DNA (midi-chlorians that get passed down from jedi to jedi) -Everyone is traumatized, we don't trivialize trauma, therefore no one is more traumatized than you (Buy the book in hardcopy for 39.99). -Acknowledging race when it's convenient, such as in the historical context of ancestry, because biology, although race is technically "invented" (who even really knows what we're actually discussing here?) I reject the claim of the author that so-called "psychobiology" is supportive of the idea that everyone needs therapy to improve their cardiovascular health. However, it's difficult to determine based on reading the first two chapters alone whether the author is actually evil or just pretentious. It would have been enough to heal individual therapy patients using the methods included in the book instead of trying to frame it in a pseudoscientific tuquoque fallacy in order to imprint a technique for dealing with trauma response in culture. Finally, dear reader, if you are the publisher or editor of this garbage, I just want you to know that I was traumatized by it. This is a trauma response and you will be hearing from my lawyer.