4.26 avg rating — 1,612 ratings

"Trauma: in utero, at birth, in infancy and earliest childhood. Excellent clinical understanding of developmental factors. Offers the sweet relief of understanding for people who experienced trauma very early in life.
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"Beautiful writing about the neurophysiology of trauma. "

3.98 avg rating — 124,203 ratings

"Exquisite storytelling about the ruptures in relation that trauma causes ... and the restoration of same :-)"

4.37 avg rating — 866,187 ratings

"Essential reading from a doctor/psychiatrist who survived a Nazi death camp and went on to invent a psychotherapy: Logotherapy, which centers on meaning. Frankl knew in his bones that love is our primal sanity and salvation."

4.10 avg rating — 1,475,717 ratings

"Madcap tragedy: Dresden, Germany, 1945. A young American soldier, a 'grunt', survives the razing of Dresden ... just as the author did ..."

3.92 avg rating — 17,327 ratings

"This is what I call 'a story that saves us.' Love is our anchor, refuge, and sustenance. "

4.14 avg rating — 47,643 ratings

"Trauma: child-rape and 'routine' violence within a family. Heroine: the girl who survived it. Intense and visceral."

4.22 avg rating — 706 ratings

"Extreme experience interwoven with extreme survival and ultimate resilience, interspersed with tragic outcomes. How do we remain intact, alive, and sane after trauma ... immediately, through the aftermath, and over the long haul?"

4.14 avg rating — 6,592 ratings

"Great story in a mystery series about a female Episcopalian priest who's also an Air Force chopper pilot and a war veteran. The plot revolves around a group of people, including the priest, who gather weekly in a PTSD support group."

3.87 avg rating — 966 ratings

""How can a child become feral?" ~ This story reveals a deep-wooded family, broken at its core and for generations ... and one young member whose life work, day after day, is to stay alive, keep his younger siblings alive, and somehow grow into a good man ... "

3.93 avg rating — 8,720 ratings

"Spans the globe, as did the effects of atomic weapons, circa August 1945 ... Elegant writing; scarred, beautiful voices from Japan, the Middle East, America, all survivors, in their ways, of war ..."

3.99 avg rating — 143 ratings

"Brilliant essays by a man whose brain was deeply injured by a virus. Floyd Skloot shows, word by word, just how long and hard he's worked to regain abilities from the sensorimotor to the literary. His example inspires me :-)"

4.06 avg rating — 10,152 ratings

"Peter A. Levine: my #1 sage of trauma studies. He is a gift. Read him and heal :-)"

4.34 avg rating — 3,299 ratings

"Peter Levine's magnum opus. If you read just one book about what trauma is and does ... and how to make sense of it and begin the long work of softening its effects ... This is the one!"

4.15 avg rating — 87 ratings

"Mollica, a physician, calls trauma 'the existential injury.' He works extensively with people who have been displaced through war and other extremes. Story -- both its safe telling and its honourable receiving -- is sacred to Dr. Mollica; he writes with great reverence about people ... "

3.91 avg rating — 22 ratings

"The wild, speechless, inarticulate, ineffable core of us ... Somehow Michael Eigen is able to bring the lucid light of language to them. He is considered by many to be peerless in this ability; his work is suffused with compassion.
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4.03 avg rating — 118 ratings

"Lauren B. Davis gets to the root of trauma in every novel she writes. Trauma through war, displacement, addiction, child abuse ... She writes with a clear eye and a huge heart.
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4.40 avg rating — 15,495 ratings

"A classic in trauma studies."

4.36 avg rating — 3,468,720 ratings

"How does a boy survive sexual assault and other horrors to mature into a man with sanity and soul intact? This story gives a glimpse ... "

4.10 avg rating — 4,897 ratings

"My #1 book on the neurology of love. Hard science written with a beautiful, poetic sensibility. Underscores our absolute need for loving relation.
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4.18 avg rating — 601 ratings

"Essential for anyone who has been terrorized into the volitional paralysis that trauma can cause. Moshe Feldenkrais, one of Thomas Hanna's mentors, said that "Movement is life" -- this book will help you to live!
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4.38 avg rating — 130 ratings

"A woman who lives with chronic fatigue syndrome explores the crux of deep illness as an alchemical process. "

4.48 avg rating — 797 ratings

"I turn to these poems when I need a dose of quiet, sturdy thinking. No frills here; just meticulous curiosity and simple statements about the way it is.
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4.04 avg rating — 30,116 ratings

"Jack, the 'prodigal son' of this story, is a man riddled with agony and alcohol addiction. He's the most complex and heartbreaking alcoholic character I've ever read ... "

3.77 avg rating — 1,618 ratings

"Relational loss; the abandonment of love in the heart. "

4.12 avg rating — 391 ratings

"There's change...and there's transition: the in-between; the void; the fallow time; bardo. The book: deeply comforting.
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3.73 avg rating — 51,923 ratings

"Smilla's a survivor."

4.34 avg rating — 8,361 ratings

"When my soul cries out, she cries for Rilke."

4.05 avg rating — 2,246 ratings

"Outstanding science & story combo! "

3.28 avg rating — 18 ratings

"Truly original; succinct, surprising, and sane. Best book I've seen on what we call (heh) "anger management."
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4.02 avg rating — 53 ratings

"Devastating illness / injury is a trauma. Alida Brill co-authors this singular memoir with her physician. Their relationship: a healing template for all of us."

3.87 avg rating — 775 ratings

"Humans and dogs. All haunted. ~ Gorgeous writing; musical. ~ Gives us a sense of the 'voidness' of long-term traumatic aftermath. The people in this story are lost ... with and without their dogs.
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4.19 avg rating — 15,702 ratings

"Excellent reference; a tome on all aspects of major depression. Refreshing in its thorough perspective and research. "

4.34 avg rating — 95,239 ratings

"One little girl ... and The Men in Grey. ~ A timeless, TIMELY story."

4.19 avg rating — 10,740 ratings

"Cancer has torn through Terry Tempest Williams' family. Here we read of both the ruination of ecosystems -- individual bodies and land masses -- and restoration through steady love, presence, and awareness. Gorgeous writing.
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4.20 avg rating — 4,158,693 ratings

"Anne Frank ... my first true hero. I read her diary when I was eleven ... She helped me through some awful times.
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4.54 avg rating — 14,517 ratings

"Mary's poem, "The Journey", helped to save my life when I was very ill ... and her poems in general remind me of why we need to be in love with the natural world, to celebrate the most simple beauties of existence.
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"MInd-blowing work that proposes a brilliant new understanding of the human nervous system. It helped me to understand trauma that occurs in infancy.
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"A harrowing memoir by a woman whose mother's behaviour was that of a "Mommie Dearest." Exquisite, urgent writing.
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4.10 avg rating — 919 ratings

"Best primer on trauma! 32 pages packed with wisdom. Graphic format. Distilled from the works of our best trauma sages, i.e., Peter Levine, Bessel van der Kolk, Stephen Porges, etc. A vital educational tool.
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3.72 avg rating — 294 ratings

"A man who was a poet and teacher survives torture in an unnamed South American (?) country. Now living in Denmark, he works with a sensitive therapist; the breakdown, breakthrough, and eventual softening of his psyche are beautifully rendered. He comes to share deep love with a woman who is also a trauma survivor (domestic violence). This is my favourite novel about trauma and healing.
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