Contents:

	Foreword
	Introduction
	Introduction
	Part One The Call To Healing: Understanding the emerency stage and making the decicion to heal
	Chapter One: Understanding the Healing Process and Trauma
		Understanding the Healing Process
	Chapter Two: Heroes and Villains vs. Survivors and Victims
		Spider-Man and Choosing to Become a Hero
		J. Jonah Jameson and Becoming a Villain
		Victim vs. Survivor
	Chapter Three: Norrin Radd and Understanding the Emergency Stage
	Chapter Four: Making the Decision to Heal
	Part Two Crossing the First Threshold: Remembering and beliebing it happened
	Chapter Five: The Effects of Childhood Trauma
	Chapter Six: Denial Believing It Happened and What It Means to Be a Good
	Chapter Seven: Kraven the Hunter, Self-Harm
	Chapter Eight: Remembering and Child, Parent, Adult (CPA) Thoughts
	Part Three: The Road of Trials: Grieving, anger, and understanding it was not your fault
	Chapter Nine: Iron Man and Becoming the Villain
	Chapter Ten: The Hulk Learning to Grieve and Accepting All Emotions
	Chapter Eleven: Understanding It Wasnt Your Fault
	Part Four Transformation: Breakuing the silener and telling your truth
	Chapter Twelve: Why You May Have Remained Silent
	Chapter Thirteen: How to Disclose Your Childhood Sexual Abuse
	Chapter Fourteen: My Truth-Telling (Autobiographical)
	Part Five Master of Two Worlds: Resolution, moving on, and post-traumatic growth
	Chapter Fifteen: Daredevil and Becoming the Master of Two Worlds
	Chapter Sixteen: Victor von Doom and Healing Childhood Wounds
	Further reading
	Sources
	Glossary

Description: »Heroes, Villains, and Healing allow survivors to view their thoughts and actions through the lens of Marvel heroes and villains they love and hate. Characters such as Wolverine demonstrate how trauma can cause the strongest to forget and block out the pain of the past, while powerful characters such as the Hulk and Thing view themselves as monsters, using their anger and strength to mask their pain, fear, and sense of loneliness. While filled with fantastic radioactive mutations, arch-nemesis, and super soldiers, the realm of superheroes and villains provides survivors the ability to safely explore the theories and applications of cognitive behavior therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and internal family systems therapy to heal their cognitive distortions and become complete individuals. Comics, while designed to be read through the lens of good vs. evil and hero vs. villain, can cause survivors to view their reality, their actions, and the actions of others in the same black-and-white terms. However, reality is more complex, containing contrasting colors and shades of grey. Heroes, Villains, and Healing use these comics as a foundation, providing the tools to identify cognitive distortions and change their automatic thoughts to no longer view themselves as either a hero or a villain. Instead, they learn to view themselves as individuals capable of overcoming the impact of their traumatic past to become the best version of themselves.« (Source: )

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