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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 225 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.35 — 273,939 ratings — published 2014
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 141 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.58 — 41,151 ratings — published 2007
Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.28 — 7,105 ratings — published 2007
The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.32 — 28,783 ratings — published 2001
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.40 — 15,499 ratings — published 1992
What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.42 — 107,288 ratings — published 2021
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.37 — 400,559 ratings — published 2019
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.39 — 11,565 ratings — published 2017
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.29 — 241,104 ratings — published 2012
It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.55 — 37,656 ratings — published 2016
Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People for Change (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,156 ratings — published 1991
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.48 — 23,491 ratings — published 2007
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.52 — 116,835 ratings — published 2010
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.47 — 113,133 ratings — published 2016
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.11 — 18,996 ratings — published 2021
The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.43 — 11,334 ratings — published 2018
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.30 — 38,941 ratings — published 1968
Days in the Lives of Social Workers: 58 Professionals Tell Real-Life Stories From Social Work Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.98 — 265 ratings — published 1999
The Whole-Brain Child: Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.26 — 58,270 ratings — published 2011
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 45 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.16 — 171,717 ratings — published 2018
The Gifts of Imperfection (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.25 — 220,394 ratings — published 2010
What My Bones Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.50 — 74,213 ratings — published 2022
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.20 — 88,848 ratings — published 1997
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.36 — 88,701 ratings — published 2015
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.13 — 120,167 ratings — published 2010
On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.16 — 18,536 ratings — published 1961
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.14 — 459,390 ratings — published 1995
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.37 — 866,318 ratings — published 1946
Modern Social Work Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.84 — 240 ratings — published
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Direct Social Work Practice: Theory and Skills [with InfoTrac] (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.73 — 407 ratings — published 2015
Cognitive Therapy: Basics and Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,451 ratings — published 1995
Three Little Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.20 — 17,451 ratings — published 2008
Where to Start and What to Ask: An Assessment Handbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.05 — 469 ratings — published 1993
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.32 — 95,735 ratings — published 2021
The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.20 — 9,481 ratings — published 1967
ACT Made Simple: An Easy-to-Read Primer on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,024 ratings — published 2009
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.06 — 10,152 ratings — published 1997
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.92 — 64,393 ratings — published 2019
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.62 — 260,151 ratings — published 2014
I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.20 — 26,559 ratings — published 2007
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 27 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.65 — 195,297 ratings — published 2001
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.30 — 34,839 ratings — published 2022
Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.25 — 88,434 ratings — published 2015
Saving Normal: An Insider's Revolt Against Out-Of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,807 ratings — published 2013
The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: A Guide to ACT (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.13 — 20,442 ratings — published 2007
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,167 ratings — published 2019
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.54 — 13,636 ratings — published 2013
Letters to a Young Therapist (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,387 ratings — published 2003
Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.25 — 41,203 ratings — published 1989
Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,066 ratings — published
“Allergic to Opulence (Sonnet 2230)
Do I have any right to happiness,
when millions go without food and shelter!
That's why, there's not a trace of luxury in my life,
I churn out humanitarian electricity all waking hours.
Most expensive clothes I own cost 20 dollars,
most expensive devices I own cost 200 dollars.
Born to a factory worker, I never knew luxury,
then I made me a name, but saw the world's condition,
I grew an absolute repulsion to lifestyle luxurious.
The question is not, how much can I enjoy,
but how much can I endure to lift up the world!
Life's meaning comes not from what we gain for
ourselves, but from what we give up for others.
I'm existentially allergic to opulence,
every soft bed feels like a betrayal -
expensive meals scream of starving children,
dollar spent on luxury is a dollar animal.”
― Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
Do I have any right to happiness,
when millions go without food and shelter!
That's why, there's not a trace of luxury in my life,
I churn out humanitarian electricity all waking hours.
Most expensive clothes I own cost 20 dollars,
most expensive devices I own cost 200 dollars.
Born to a factory worker, I never knew luxury,
then I made me a name, but saw the world's condition,
I grew an absolute repulsion to lifestyle luxurious.
The question is not, how much can I enjoy,
but how much can I endure to lift up the world!
Life's meaning comes not from what we gain for
ourselves, but from what we give up for others.
I'm existentially allergic to opulence,
every soft bed feels like a betrayal -
expensive meals scream of starving children,
dollar spent on luxury is a dollar animal.”
― Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“I'm A Mad Monk (Sonnet 2702)
I'm a mad monk,
I won't return to paradise -
the world is a giant headache,
yet my suffering is my cure.
I'm exhausted, I want to sleep,
but I'm afraid, if I fall asleep,
I might not wake up -
so I toil, till the soil is human.
Soy un monje loco,
no volveré al paraíso -
o la tierra es de todos,
o ilegales todos somos.
The world ain't mine,
the world ain't yours -
either earth belongs to all,
or we are all illegal.”
― Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
I'm a mad monk,
I won't return to paradise -
the world is a giant headache,
yet my suffering is my cure.
I'm exhausted, I want to sleep,
but I'm afraid, if I fall asleep,
I might not wake up -
so I toil, till the soil is human.
Soy un monje loco,
no volveré al paraíso -
o la tierra es de todos,
o ilegales todos somos.
The world ain't mine,
the world ain't yours -
either earth belongs to all,
or we are all illegal.”
― Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
