Trauma Is a Thief - Hardcoverby Neal King (Author) Trauma Is a Thief is a memoir(ish) work whose author a California based, American, cisgender, White, gay male psychologist, professor, and former college president uses his own lived experiences of trauma in a very disturbed family (including sexual and physical abuse, abandonment, and multiple family addictions) to elucidate the developmental and lifelong impact of trauma. In a deeply personal work, Neal offers his childhood as