Banishing Night Terrors and Ni

by Christopher Raoul Carranza, , Dil

Drawn from the latest research and the author's own experiences with night terrors, this comprehensive guide provides parents with the most effective therapeutic approaches, the pros and cons of medication, and the steps needed for permanently vanquishing this disorder, while improving physical and emotional health. Original.

240 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2004

Reviews

[Fishface · Rating 3 out of 5]

Excellent overall. Goes over what night terrors are -- both the "shallow-rooted" kind experienced by young children and the debilitating adult version -- and explains how to deal with them and get rid of them. He does not fluff you off with a vague "just go to counseling and you'll be all right;" he tells you what you need to work on and how to make the night terrors go away. The author spends a little too long making his case that night terrors are often trauma-based and were never a genetic disorder -- c'mon, man, that was obvious all along! But I realize well the blinkered, it-doesn't-say-that-in-the-manual approach of too many professionals, so it was probably worth the effort. My only quibble is that the author is too quick to dismiss this or that person as a psychopath when he also says, without appearing to realize the contradiction, that these people are simply re-enacting their childhoods because that is all they know. Wait, here's another quibble: the author talks as if only people who suffer from night terrors suffer from the damaged boundaries and lousy relationship choices that most chronically-traumatized people do.