In 1944, sixteen-year-old Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz. There she endured unimaginable experiences, including being made to dance for the infamous Josef Mengele. Over the coming months, Edith’s bravery helped her sister to survive, and led to her bunkmates rescuing her during a death march. In The Choice, Dr Edith Eger shares her experience of the Holocaust and the remarkable stories of those she has helped ever since.
Harcos túlélőből pszichológus: Edith Eger élettörténete
Today, she is an internationally acclaimed psychologist whose patients include survivors of abuse and soldiers suffering from PTSD. Like Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning, but exceptional in its own right, The Choice is life changing. Ez az oldal sütiket használ a felhasználói élmény fokozása érdekében. A powerful, moving memoir-and a practical guide to healing-written by Dr. Edith Eger was sixteen years old when the Nazis came to her hometown in Hungary and took her Jewish family to an interment center and then to Auschwitz.
Hours later Mengele demanded that Edie dance a waltz to “The Blue Danube” and rewarded her with a loaf of bread that she shared with her fellow prisoners. These women later helped save Edie’s life. One of the few living Holocaust survivors to remember the horrors of the camps, Edie has chosen to forgive her captors and find joy in her life every day. Years after she was liberated from the concentration camps Edie went back to college to study psychology. She combines her clinical knowledge and her own experiences with trauma to help others who have experienced painful events large and small.
A döntés ereje: hogyan formálja a trauma az életet
Dr. Eger has counselled veterans suffering from PTSD, women who were abused, and many others who learned that they too, can choose to forgive, find resilience, and move forward. The Choice weaves Eger’s personal story with case studies from her work as a psychologist. Her patients and their stories illustrate different phases of healing and show how people can choose to escape the prisons they construct in their minds and find freedom, regardless of circumstance.
Fontos üzenet és központi gondolatok
Eger’s story is an inspiration for everyone. And her message is powerful and important: “Your pain matters and is worth healing: you can choose to be joyful and free.” She is eighty-nine years old and still dancing.
Érzékenyített trauma és a gyógyítás gyakorlata
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Gyakorlati útmutató a gyógyuláshoz
In The Choice, Eger combines személyes élményét a terapeutai gyakorlatával, bemutatva, hogy a traumák túlélése nem csak emlékek feldolgozásáról szól, hanem a mindennapi élet minőségének visszaszerzéséről is.
Ízelítő megjegyzések és idézetek
„Meghozhatom azt a döntést, amelyet mindannyian meg tudunk hozni. Soha nem változtathatom meg a múltat. De egy életet meg tudok menteni: a magamét.”
A könyv fogadtatása és olvasói vélemények
Népszerű idézetek, visszajelzések és olvasói értékelések hangsúlyozzák a mű lírai erejét és gyakorlati hasznosságát a traumák feldolgozásában.
Edith Eva Eger: The Choice 93% Embrace the Possible
