Lynda Field is a trained counsellor, therapist and life coach, with a degree in sociology and social psychology. Her highly popular books include 60 Ways to Feel Amazing (No 3 on ST bestseller list), Self-Esteem for Women (chosen as one of the top titles for the NHS 'Book Prescription' scheme), Just Do It Now; Weekend Life Coach and many others. They have sold more than half a million copies and been translated into more than 20 languages. She gives trainings and workshops internationally and has written for a large number of UK magazines and newspapers including The Times, Daily Express, Grazia, Tesco Magazine, Cosmo, Prima, Woman and Home, Slimming Magazine, Good Housekeeping, Psychologies, My Weekly (current life coach), Yours (current agony aunt) and many others. Her website address is- www.lyndafield.com and she lives in Cambridge, UK.
?Brief Treatments for the Traumatized can be best viewed as an inital foray into expicating the ways that traumatized persons may be helped by conventional and nonconventional approaches to ameliorating the adverse effects of abuse, trauma, and violence. Its heuristic value rests in what it will spawn in the future.?-Contemporary Psychology