{"product_id":"changing-the-odds-ivan-gulas-9798218942700","title":"Changing The Odds: A New Understanding of PTSD and the Path to Recovery","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eIn Changing the Odds: A New Understanding of PTSD, Dr. Ivan Gulas draws on more than fifty years of clinical practice-spanning psychoanalytic training, cognitive-behavioral modalities, neuropsychology, and brain imaging-to introduce a unifying framework that reshapes how PTSD can be understood, treated, and successfully navigated.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThrough vivid narrative, clinical insight, and neuroscience, Dr. Gulas argues that trauma does more than produce fear. It shatters the brain's internal probability-assessment system-the quiet, invisible mechanism that continuously evaluates risk and allows people to live without constant terror. Trauma forces an instant, catastrophic recalibration: the brain, proven wrong in a moment of mortal danger, overcorrects toward hypervigilance and constant alarm.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe result is the condition we call PTSD: not a collection of symptoms, but a disorder of miscalibrated threat assessment affecting memory, emotion, behavior, and the body's survival systems. Through this lens, intrusive memories, avoidance, hypervigilance, triggers, dissociation, and emotional numbing become understandable responses to a system struggling to avoid ever being \"wrong\" about danger again.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book is neither a treatment manual nor a self-help guide. Instead, it opens a fiercely original window onto the unseen mechanisms that shape trauma and recovery. It explains why certain therapeutic approaches work, why others falter, and what recovery truly looks like: the gradual restoration of trust in a world that once proved catastrophically unsafe. Written for clinicians, trauma survivors, and families, Changing the Odds offers clarity, hope, and a powerful new way of understanding the path to healing.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ivan Gulas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798218942700\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Salisbury \u0026amp; York\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/11\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.59d","brand":"Ivan Gulas","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48114151522559,"sku":"9798218942700","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c1815c03-9efe-4192-aba6-35415b224219.jpg?v=1769619429","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/changing-the-odds-ivan-gulas-9798218942700","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}