I read it years ago during a college psych course. for some yes it can be triggering for others not. it all depends upon your own triggers. it has some great stories to illustrate things like flight or fight reaction, and other physical body reaction to triggers and trauma. though it does define psychological terms and does have psychological information in it, it is more based on the physical aspects of how the human brain works when traumatized...


be aware that this book is almost two decades old (1997) and that here in america things in the mental health field changed drastically in 2013. some of the information may apply but much of the information in the book is now outdated and not what treatment providers may now go by...


to give you an example the book defines trauma as a stressful occurrence that is outside the range of usual human experience and that would be markedly distressing to almost anyone. and everything in the book is in relation to this definition of trauma


where as today in my location trauma is defined more individualized as anything in that persons own life that has caused them great, clinical distress.


the difference the first one takes into consideration only elements that the whole human race on average would be triggered by, where as the updated definition takes into consideration that one person maybe traumatized by one thing and another person maybe traumatized by something else.


in the book they dont consider something in a persons daily life that causes one to have a nightmare trauma, the story says the diagnosing psychiatrist said it wasnt trauma it was just a nightmare.


my point its a good read, can be triggering for some but much of the content is out of date and no longer what is used/ believed in the mental health field due to the book is almost two decades old and times and definitions have changed recently.