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Surviving Survival: The Art And Science Of Resilience (2013)

by Laurence Gonzales(Favorite Author)

4.11 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0393346633 (ISBN13: 9780393346633)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

review 1: One of my favorite topics to read: survival stories. I read Laurence Gonzales' Deep Survival several years ago, and was completely fascinated by the psychology of humans and survival. Surviving Survival is every bit as fascinating. Gonzales writes about what is happening in the brain after a tragedy and how humans deal with it; his books are a gift to all of us. He relays this information through the stories of individuals' tragedies. These stories will have you contemplating what you will do to survive a physical or emotional tragedy, or simply how you deal with everyday life.
review 2: The horrifying survival tales were quite interesting to read, ranging anywhere from grizzly attacks to Nazi concentration camps. This book also doubled as a crash course... more in advanced psychology, exploring the brain’s emotional capacity. The self-help advice for trauma recovery was somewhat redundant. I was disappointed that the author didn't expand more on the self—a person’s spirit. At times, it felt like he was reducing humanity to nothing more than electrical impulses and instinctual reactions. less

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