Pioneering psychologist George A. Bonanno argues that we routinely fail to predict the psychological response to adverse events because most of what we understand about trauma is wrong; people are more resilient than we think. This book introduces a new model of the coping process called the flexibility sequence, a series of steps we take in order to understand how best to meet the challenges of specific situations. Flexibility is a natural feature of the human mind. By learning how it works, we can better understand the roots of trauma, and ultimately learn how to make ourselves more resilient in the future. -- Adapted from book jacket.