THE FIRST BOOK ABOUT CPTD WRITTEN IN RUSSIAN!This book is about the symptoms of complex trauma: loss of meaning, flashbacks, a sense of difference, and where these experiences come from. About what trauma is, how PTSD and CPTD differ from each other. Dissociation as the essence of trauma. That it's not only the threat to life that is traumatic, but also the lack of freedom, isolation, and betrayal.About the difficulties of diagnosis: CPTD is usually not pronounced, it is not necessarily associated with extreme experiences, but it is always associated with chronic stress, and it is very common: according to one of the leading trauma therapists, Janina Fisher, 40 percent of people have some kind of traumatic symptoms. Many disorders, including borderline personality disorder, are solutions to PTSD as a problem.About collective trauma: about the repressions and wars of the 20th century as periods of the most intense violence, about the USSR as an artificially created captivity within the country, about the traumatism of the nineties and noughties and about what is happening to us in the present.The book is written in a lively and relevant language: it is a serious, deep and very free conversation with a professional.Anastasia Zhichkina is a social psychologist, researcher, candidate of Psychological Sciences; author of the text "KPTSD: restoring connections" and the telegram channel "KPTSD: a suitcase with texts".