Recommended Readings

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

~Thomas Carruthers

Elaine Aaron:

Psychotherapy and the Highly Sensitive Person: Improving Outcomes for That Minority of People Who Are the Majority of Clients, Routledge (2010).

Frank Anderson:

Internal Family Systems Skills Training Manual: Trauma-Informed Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, PTSD & Substance Abuse. PESI Publishing & Media, (2017);

Bonnie Badenoch:

The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships. W. W. Norton & Company; (2017);

Louis Cozolino:

The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy; Norton & Company; (2010).

Christine A. Courtois, Julian D. Ford:

Treating Complex Traumatic Stress Disorders: An Evidence-Based Guide. The Guilford Press; (2009).

Linda A. Curran:

Trauma Competency: A Clinician's Guide PESI; (2010);

101 Trauma-Informed Interventions: Exercises, Experiments and Activities for Moving the Client and Therapy Forward (2013).

Antonio Damasio:

Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain Penguin; (2005).

Janina Fisher:

Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors. Routledge; (2017).

Victoria Follette, (Editor), John Briere (Editor), Deborah Rozelle (Editor), James W. Hopper (Editor), David Rome (Editor):

Mindfulness-Oriented Interventions for Trauma: Integrating Contemplative Practices, (2014).

Paul Frewen and Ruth Lanius:

Healing the Traumatized Self: Consciousness, Neuroscience, Treatment. Norton & Co; (2015).

Diane Poole Heller:

The Power of Attachment: How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships. Sounds True, (2019);

Judith Herman:

Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror Basic Books; (1997).

Joseph LeDoux:

Synaptic Self: How Our Become Who We Are Penguin; (2003).

Marsha Linehan:

Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder The Guilford Press; (1993);

Opposite Action (Video, DVD): Changing Emotions You Want to Change Behavioral Tech LLC: (2007).

Peter A. Levine:

Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma: The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences. North Atlantic Books; (1997);

In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness North Atlantic Books; (2010);

Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body Sounds True Inc. (2005).

Jamie Marich:

EMDR Made Simple PESI Publishing; (2011).

Iain McGilchrist:

The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World Yale University Press; (2010).

Belleruth Naparstek:

Invisible Heroes: Survivors of Trauma and How They Heal Bantam; (2005);

Staying Well With Guided Imagery by Belleruth Naparstek Warner Books;(1994);

A Guided Meditation for Healing Trauma (PTSD) Health Journeys; (1999);

Your Sixth Sense: Unlocking the Power of Your Intuition HarperOne; (2009).

Lane Pederson:

The Expanded Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training Manual: Practical DBT for Self-Help, and Individual & Group Treatment Setting; (2012);

Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training for Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment Settings; (2013).

Pat Ogden:

Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy W. W. Norton & Company; (2006).

Jaak Panksepp:

Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions Oxford University Press; (2006).

V. S. Ramachandran:

Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind HarperCollins Books; (1998).

The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human W. W. Norton & Company; (2011).

Babette Rothschild:

The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment. W. W. Norton & Company; (2000);

The Body Remembers Volume 2: Revolutionizing Trauma Treatment (with Autonomic Nervous System Table: Laminated Card). W. W. Norton & Company (2017);

8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery: Take-Charge Strategies to Empower Your Healing. W. W. Norton & Company; (2010);

Help for the Helper: The Psychophysiology of Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma. W. W. Norton & Company; (2006);

Trauma Essentials: The Go-To Guide (Go-To Guides). W. W. Norton & Company (2011).

Robert C. Scaer MD, PhD:

The Body Bears the Burden: Trauma, Dissociation, and Disease Second edition The Haworth Press; 2 edition; (2007);

The Trauma Spectrum: Hidden Wounds and Human Resiliency The Haworth Press; (2005).

Robin Shapiro:

EMDR Solutions: Pathways to Healing W. W. Norton & Company (2005);

EMDR Solutions II: For Depression, Eating Disorders, Performance, and More W. W. Norton & Company; (2009);

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. W. W. Norton & Company; (2003);

Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self: The Neurobiology of Emotional Development Lawrence Erlbaum Assocites, Inc. (1994).

Right Brain Psychotherapy. W. W. Norton & Company, (2019);

Daniel J. Siegel, MD:

Healing Trauma: Attachment, Mind, Body, and Brain W. W. Norton & Company; (2003).

Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD:

Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society The Guilford Press; (1996);

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma; (2014).