'Approachable and valuable....will bring encouragement to many who are suffering alone and feel overwhelmed.' John McCarthy, CBE

Despite how rare one-off traumatic events may seem, the statistics show that the majority of us are likely to experience such trauma at some point in our lives.

In this innovative and engaging book, John Marzillier combines first hand-accounts from trauma sufferers with over forty years of clinical practice to provide an honest, human description of how trauma affects us at the time and also after the event as we return to normal life. Whether discussing accounts of terrorist bombings, natural disasters, road accidents or physical attacks, he looks at what these experiences do to us and offers practical and consoling advice - for both sufferers and their loved ones - on coping with the experience and developing resilience for the future.

To Hell and Back provides a compassionate insight into the way in which trauma can affect us all and helps navigate the path to recovery.

John Marzillier has extensive experience as a clinical psychologist and has worked at the Institute of Psychiatry and the University of Oxford, as well as acting as 'Force Psychologist' for Thames Valley Police Force. His previous book, The Gossamer Thread: My Life as a Psychotherapist was short-listed for the MIND Book of the Year, 2011.