Facing the Invisible Monster

Facing the Invisible Monster How I Came Back from Trauma, and How You Can Too

Hardback (31 Jul 2025)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Jenni Schaefer, best-selling author and self-help speaker, reveals her unexpected but harrowing battle with trauma while exploring the groundbreaking treatments that saved her At the height of her career as a mental health expert, Jenni Schaefer was admitted to a psychiatric hospital. She had already battled and overcome anorexia, so this time around, her diagnosis shocked her—she had PTSD. In this revelatory book, Schaefer discloses the truth about PTSD: it can happen to anyone. She delves into her own trauma—rape at the hands of an abusive boyfriend—and shares the steps she took on the journey to recovery. By including original research about the condition and its treatments, Schaefer paints a new, fuller picture of PTSD that will shatter stigmas and right readers' misconceptions about trauma.

Book information

ISBN: 9780358252016
Publisher: HMH Books
Imprint: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 256
Weight: 454g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm