I read the book from the advice from a friend that knows of my childhood from the hands of an abusive mother.-- i must say, it was disturbing. But, what was VERY therapeutic to me was listening to one of his speeches and watching a video of his on one of his motivational speeches. Something hit me that I needed to hear, (years of counseling, psychiatrists, and psychologists never helped me) but hearing this from a survivor really sunk in, -- he was basically saying you have to drop what happened to you and move forward, stop living in the past, and I needed to hear that, instead of always trying to make sense of what happened to me or getting hurt again and angered again when i can't get my mother to account for what she did or apologize, in her twisted mind she sounds like his mother when he interviewed her, my mother brought up ONE bad thing with an excuse almost to take the focus of the other things (beatings, torture, starvation,etc).. and listening to him speak on how he has come to grips with that, has taken a huge load off of my shoulders, almost like I'm a new person now.
I'm forever grateful, wish i had read this book a few years ago when my friend brought it to my attention =(