Recommended Readings
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
~Thomas Carruthers
Elaine Aaron:
Frank Anderson:
Bonnie Badenoch:
The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships.
Louis Cozolino:
The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy: Healing the Social Brain
Christine A. Courtois:
Linda A. Curran:
Trauma Competency: A Clinician's Guide.
Antonio Damasio:
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain.
David Emerson:
Overcoming Trauma through Yoga: Reclaiming Your Body
Janina Fisher:
Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors.
Victoria Follette, (Editor), John Briere (Editor), Deborah Rozelle (Editor), James W. Hopper (Editor), David Rome (Editor):
Mindfulness-Oriented Interventions for Trauma: Integrating Contemplative Practices.
Paul Frewen and Ruth Lanius:
Healing the Traumatized Self: Consciousness, Neuroscience, Treatment.
Diane Poole Heller:
The Power of Attachment: How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships.
Judith Herman:
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror.
Joseph LeDoux:
Synaptic Self: How Our Become Who We Are.
Marsha Linehan:
Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder.
Opposite Action (Video, DVD): Changing Emotions You Want to Change Behavioral
Peter A. Levine:
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma: The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences.
In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness.
Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body.
Jamie Marich:
Iain McGilchrist:
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World.
Rasmaa Menakem:
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
Belleruth Naparstek:
Invisible Heroes: Survivors of Trauma and How They Heal.
Staying Well With Guided Imagery.
A Guided Meditation for Healing Trauma (PTSD) Health Journeys.
Your Sixth Sense: Unlocking the Power of Your Intuition HarperOne.
Pat Ogden:
Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy
Jaak Panksepp:
Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions.
Lane Pederson:
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training for Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment Settings
V. S. Ramachandran:
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind HarperCollins Books
The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human
Babette Rothschild:
The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment. W. W. Norton & Company.
8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery: Take-Charge Strategies to Empower Your Healing.
Help for the Helper: The Psychophysiology of Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma.
Trauma Essentials: The Go-To Guide (Go-To Guides).
Robert C. Scaer MD, PhD:
The Body Bears the Burden: Trauma, Dissociation, and Disease Second edition.
The Trauma Spectrum: Hidden Wounds and Human Resiliency.
Robin Shapiro:
EMDR Solutions: Pathways to Healing.
EMDR Solutions II: For Depression, Eating Disorders, Performance, and More.
The Trauma Treatment Handbook Protocols Across the Spectrum.
Allan N. Schore:
Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self/Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self.
Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self: The Neurobiology of Emotional Development.
Daniel J. Siegel, MD:
Healing Trauma: Attachment, Mind, Body, and Brain.
Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD:
Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society.
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma.