To Be Loved: A Story of Truth, Trauma, and Transformation

"This lucid and wonderful book provides the reader with a compelling autobiographical account of the intricate life journey of a prominent trauma therapist and his courageous road to healing. Frank Anderson gently shows how his life's work has its roots in his own history--his troubled upbringing, the relatively late emergence of his sexual identity (that clearly led to a vastly heightened capacity for intimacy), and the courageous transition to raising two sons in a two-male-parent household. A passionate, courageous, and inspiring work." --Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Body Keeps the Score "A harrowingly self-revealing and tenderly self-loving memoir of trauma and transformation, by my colleague, respected psychiatrist, therapist, and teacher, Dr. Frank Anderson." --Gabor Maté, MD, author of the instant New York Times bestseller, The Myth of Normal "Leading trauma expert Frank Anderson gifts us with an intimate and vulnerable glimpse into