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WHY WE SUFFER AND HOW WE HEAL
Using Narrative, Ritual, and Purpose to Flourish Through Life's Challenges
Suzan Song is a psychiatrist who has dedicated her life to treating global survivors of unspeakable horrors - torture, hostage, and trafficking - and unpacking the effects of trauma on the psyche. But in caring for victims of the most extreme adversities, she has discovered a powerful secret that applies to even the mildest forms of everyday pain and sorrow: embrace instability.
Some survivors are unflappable, yet it's not their optimism, determination or mindfulness that carries them forward - it's that they acknowledge and internalize the inherent instability in their lives.
Dr. Song draws from her clinical practice, patient stories, research, and public health work to help readers release their unrealistic longing for stability, and open them up to a new, heathier mindset built around their narratives, rituals and purpose. Her personal story, in the wake of a violent tragedy surrounding her father's death, inspires not just this book and its title - drawn from the Korean motifs that guided her in the wake of childhood trauma - but also her lifelong mission.
Dr. Suzan Song is a Harvard- and Stanford-trained child and adult psychiatrist whose work focuses on individuals affected by adversity across the world. She is a recipient of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists' Catchers in the Rye Humanitarian Award, which is the field's equivalent of the Nobel Peace Prize. Dr. Song serves as director of the Division of Child, Adolescent and Family Psychiatry and professor of psychiatry at George Washington University. She is an adviser to the U.S. State Department and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and applies lessons gleaned during her two decades of global mental health work to a clinical practice in Palo Alto, CA and Washington, D.C., where she assists high-profile executives, politicians, and technology leaders in cultivating hope when facing uncertainty and danger. She has been a speaker for organizations such as Google, Nike, Toyota, and contributed to NBC Think, U.S. News & World Report and Huffington Post, among many others, and is often interviewed on national news here.
Dr. Song draws from her clinical practice, patient stories, research, and public health work to help readers release their unrealistic longing for stability, and open them up to a new, heathier mindset built around their narratives, rituals and purpose. Her personal story, in the wake of a violent tragedy surrounding her father's death, inspires not just this book and its title - drawn from the Korean motifs that guided her in the wake of childhood trauma - but also her lifelong mission.
Dr. Suzan Song is a Harvard- and Stanford-trained child and adult psychiatrist whose work focuses on individuals affected by adversity across the world. She is a recipient of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists' Catchers in the Rye Humanitarian Award, which is the field's equivalent of the Nobel Peace Prize. Dr. Song serves as director of the Division of Child, Adolescent and Family Psychiatry and professor of psychiatry at George Washington University. She is an adviser to the U.S. State Department and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and applies lessons gleaned during her two decades of global mental health work to a clinical practice in Palo Alto, CA and Washington, D.C., where she assists high-profile executives, politicians, and technology leaders in cultivating hope when facing uncertainty and danger. She has been a speaker for organizations such as Google, Nike, Toyota, and contributed to NBC Think, U.S. News & World Report and Huffington Post, among many others, and is often interviewed on national news here.
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Published 2026-02-01 by Harmony |