Esther Perel has a podcast https://www.estherperel.com/podcast with 19 different one-time sessions with couples. I was impressed with her technique and perceptiveness working with her couples. One of the sessions called "You Need Help to Help Her" with a couple who were dealing with their daughter's mental illness particularly moved me.
As good as Esther's skill is, it is a "top down" type of therapy, cognitive. In a session called "Leaving the Shame Behind", she seems to believe that someone with childhood complex trauma can just decide to no longer display his most troubling symptom. Instead, a few weeks after the session, he joined the ranks of people who have lost their families because of their disease. Some diseases require isolation until the disease is properly treated. C-PTSD with the symptom of being verbal or physically violent is one of them.
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