I want to add more information since I finished the book.
She mentions five emotional wounds and how suffering from these wounds make us wear masks. These masks were a defence, an effort to cover these wounds and avoid more damage or the repetition of the damage but the problem is that the wound is only cover, it's not cured.
The rejection wound would give place to the evasive mask ( that I identify with the avoidant)
The abandon wound gives you the dependency mask.
On the third place is the humiliation wound driving to masochistic mask.
The controller mask is the one a person can exhibit when lived a betrayal wound.
And finally, the fifth is the injustice wound that may give place to stiffness mask.
The reading has been pretty interesting. The author, beside many behaviours that are typical of each wound, also describes how the masks are visible physically, in the body. Indeed, she states that many times is easier to see and recognise the mask or masks you wear, in the body than in your mind.
Another interesting point I loved in the book is how the reader can recognise the different personalities disorders or traits of personality in each of the wounds.
Evasive mask is the one who wears the avoidant.
The dependency is clear, the dependant.
The masochistic is not clear for me, perhaps the dependency and the borderline.
The controller mask is borderline and narcissist.
The stiffness mask is quite similar to the Perfectionist and the Schizoid.
There are many behaviours described that let you come across why you sometimes behave in a certain way. What need you are trying to fill.
I guess there are some questionable points in the book, for example, the focuss on the physical appearance and how the book ends where the author describes a great amount of good characteristics in the true persons, the persons who are behind the masks. I'm working in answer this. But I think the book might worth a try.
Is there someone here who knows about the book or about the author and wants to comment on it. Or ask me questions if you are interested.