from therapists:
" Prognosis: Fair is a masterpiece of science, academic resource, therapeutic prescription, personal traumatic experience, abandonment, injustice as well as examples of unconditional love, real support, on going recovery, transcendence, and soul. It is a life changing treasure with a lingering impact.
-- Terri Fessler, LCSW, trauma specialist
"I am so grateful for your beautiful book. I love the courage and science and humor and honesty and pain and hope and music and quotes and cover and inscription and all of it. Wow. Thank you."
-- Gloria Miele, PhD, Co-Author, Trauma Services for Women in Substance Abuse Treatment
"I was struck by how courageous an undertaking Prognosis: Fair is, and impressed with how much is pulled together-- theory, data, lyrics, verse, technical information, personal experience. It makes me all the more aware of the hard and important work of integrating traumatic memories."
-- Cynthia Magistro, PhD, clinical psychologist
-- Terri Fessler, LCSW, trauma specialist
"I am so grateful for your beautiful book. I love the courage and science and humor and honesty and pain and hope and music and quotes and cover and inscription and all of it. Wow. Thank you."
-- Gloria Miele, PhD, Co-Author, Trauma Services for Women in Substance Abuse Treatment
"I was struck by how courageous an undertaking Prognosis: Fair is, and impressed with how much is pulled together-- theory, data, lyrics, verse, technical information, personal experience. It makes me all the more aware of the hard and important work of integrating traumatic memories."
-- Cynthia Magistro, PhD, clinical psychologist
from physicians:
" Prognosis: Fair is such an emotional and powerful journey. I'm astounded by Dr. Southwick's courage. [I am] grateful and humbled about what is shared. I am changed by reading it."
-- Ian Kim, MD, family medicine and mobile medicine physician
"I have already borrowed insights from Prognosis: Fair in working with some of my patients with trauma histories."
-- Helene Alphonso, FAPA, attending psychiatrist, JPS Northeast Medical Home Behavioral Health Center and assistant professor at Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine and Texas Christian University Medical School
"The honesty and vulnerability of the writing is incredible. . . Overall, it was deeply personal and authentic in a way that I wish was standard for things like case reports and medical literature."
-- James Dodge, DO, osteopathic family physician
"I love Prognosis: Fair. It is both a work of art and a very helpful educational text."
-- Tomoko Sairenji, MD, MS, assistant professor of clinical family medicine
-- Ian Kim, MD, family medicine and mobile medicine physician
"I have already borrowed insights from Prognosis: Fair in working with some of my patients with trauma histories."
-- Helene Alphonso, FAPA, attending psychiatrist, JPS Northeast Medical Home Behavioral Health Center and assistant professor at Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine and Texas Christian University Medical School
"The honesty and vulnerability of the writing is incredible. . . Overall, it was deeply personal and authentic in a way that I wish was standard for things like case reports and medical literature."
-- James Dodge, DO, osteopathic family physician
"I love Prognosis: Fair. It is both a work of art and a very helpful educational text."
-- Tomoko Sairenji, MD, MS, assistant professor of clinical family medicine