Trauma Is a Thief

<p><em>Trauma Is a Thief</em><strong><em> </em></strong>is a memoir(ish) work whose author - a California-based American cisgender White gay-male psychologist professor and former college president - uses his own lived experiences of trauma in a very disturbed family (including sexual and physical abuse abandonment and multiple family addictions) to elucidate the developmental and lifelong impact of trauma.</p><p><br></p><p>In a deeply personal work Neal offers his childhood as an illustrative case study as he invites the reader - applying his professional expertise as author researcher and clinician - inside his disturbed family and traumatic early life - and the years since as he has struggled in the aftermath toward healing and wholeness.</p>