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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 239 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.32 — 315,399 ratings — published 2014
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 153 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.58 — 45,074 ratings — published 2007
Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.27 — 7,725 ratings — published 2007
The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.32 — 31,665 ratings — published 2002
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.40 — 16,495 ratings — published 1992
What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.40 — 117,231 ratings — published 2021
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.36 — 429,631 ratings — published 2019
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.37 — 12,597 ratings — published 2017
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.29 — 251,110 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 69 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.55 — 42,664 ratings — published 2016
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.52 — 121,043 ratings — published 2010
No Bad Parts (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.07 — 23,951 ratings — published 2021
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.47 — 25,924 ratings — published 2007
Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People for Change (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,463 ratings — published 1991
What My Bones Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.48 — 88,016 ratings — published 2022
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.47 — 119,266 ratings — published 2016
The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.41 — 12,368 ratings — published 2018
The Whole-Brain Child: Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.26 — 65,284 ratings — published 2011
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.30 — 41,397 ratings — published 1968
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 50 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,878 ratings — published 2018
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.34 — 106,032 ratings — published 2015
Days in the Lives of Social Workers: 58 Professionals Tell Real-Life Stories From Social Work Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.96 — 273 ratings — published 1999
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.36 — 951,646 ratings — published 1946
The Gifts of Imperfection (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.24 — 232,320 ratings — published 2010
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.21 — 91,506 ratings — published 1997
On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.16 — 19,721 ratings — published 1961
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.12 — 135,460 ratings — published 2010
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.32 — 103,253 ratings — published 2021
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.62 — 274,430 ratings — published 2014
Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,469 ratings — published
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Direct Social Work Practice: Theory and Skills [with InfoTrac] (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.74 — 413 ratings — published 2015
Modern Social Work Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.84 — 248 ratings — published
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.14 — 469,040 ratings — published 1995
Where to Start and What to Ask: An Assessment Handbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.05 — 495 ratings — published 1993
Three Little Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.20 — 17,980 ratings — published 2008
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.29 — 227,371 ratings — published 2024
ACT Made Simple: An Easy-to-Read Primer on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,342 ratings — published
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.29 — 40,436 ratings — published 2022
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.36 — 121,325 ratings — published 2019
Cognitive Therapy: Basics and Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,587 ratings — published 1995
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.91 — 68,940 ratings — published 2019
The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.21 — 9,618 ratings — published 1967
Letters to a Young Therapist (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as social-work)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,977 ratings — published 2003
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.05 — 11,006 ratings — published 1997
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 29 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.53 — 15,472 ratings — published 2013
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 4.19 — 27,340 ratings — published 2007
Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.25 — 43,982 ratings — published 1989
The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: A Guide to ACT (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.13 — 22,760 ratings — published 2007
Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.44 — 74,055 ratings — published 2019
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as social-work)
avg rating 4.48 — 109,063 ratings — published 2018
“The meaning of office is service, meaning of faith is service, meaning of science is service.”
― Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth
― Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth
“Burn My Books, Go Lift The World
(Sonnet 2236)
If they ever make a cult of me,
burn every last book of mine.
Books are just kindling,
mind is the real flame.
Damn the prophet-people divide,
every human is prophet of the planet!
Socially aloof bookworms are no good to me -
I don't want readers, I want revolutionaries.
There is not one, but two societies -
one sophisticated, the other suffering.
The sophisticated don't matter, don't count;
at the feet of the suffering life begins.”
― Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
(Sonnet 2236)
If they ever make a cult of me,
burn every last book of mine.
Books are just kindling,
mind is the real flame.
Damn the prophet-people divide,
every human is prophet of the planet!
Socially aloof bookworms are no good to me -
I don't want readers, I want revolutionaries.
There is not one, but two societies -
one sophisticated, the other suffering.
The sophisticated don't matter, don't count;
at the feet of the suffering life begins.”
― Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
