Trauma


The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
What My Bones Know
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
I’m Glad My Mom Died
In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts
A Little Life
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der KolkComplex PTSD by Pete WalkerWhy Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controllin... by Lundy   BancroftToxic Parents by Susan ForwardAdult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson
Trauma and Abuse Reading List
174 books — 108 voters
THE ECHOING GUN by Yasmin ChinoyThe Girl on the Train by Paula HawkinsGone Girl by Gillian FlynnSharp Objects by Gillian FlynnDark Places by Gillian Flynn
Psychological Thrillers/Mystery
289 books — 304 voters

A Child Called "It" by Dave PelzerThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsDear Teddy by J.D. StockholmThis Childhood of Mine by Laura Meer BarkleyTelling Teddy by J.D. Stockholm
Non-fiction Dysfunctional Families
74 books — 90 voters

A Child Called "It" by Dave PelzerTrauma and Recovery by Judith Lewis HermanThe Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der KolkWhen Rabbit Howls by Truddi ChaseThe Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass
Trauma And Dissociation
230 books — 78 voters

Max Nowaz
You shall address me as ‘My Dearest’,’ he repeated in a mocking voice, trying to copy her tone. ‘You will forget all about this conversation when you leave this room.’ It was interesting that tone; it had a sort of hypnotising ring to it.
Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

Judith Lewis Herman
The ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable. Atrocities, however, refuse to be buried. Equally as powerful as the desire to deny atrocities is the conviction that denial does not work. Folk wisdom is filled with ghosts who refuse to rest in their graves until their stories are told. Murder will out. Remembering and telling the truth about terrible e ...more
Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

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