Reading List

Trauma

Trauma and Recovery by Judith Lewis Herman

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk

It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle by Mark Wolynn

Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter A. Levine, PhD

What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Bruce D. Perry, M.D., PhD, and Oprah Winfrey

Coping with Trauma Related Dissociation by Suzette Boon, Kathy Steele and Onno van der Hart


Child Sexual Abuse

The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis

The Courage to Heal Workbook by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis

I Never Told Anyone by Ellen Bass and Louise Thorton

Beginning to Heal by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis

Recovery of Your Inner Child by Lucia Capacchione, PhD

Conspiracy of Silence by Sandra Butler

Healing Your Aloneness Workbook by Erika J. Chopich, PhD

Secret Survivors by E. Sue Blume

Becoming Whole Again: Help for Women Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse by Dr. Vera Gallagher

Healing the Child Within by Charles L. Whitfield, M.D.

Right to Innocence by Beverly Engel

Growing Through the Pain by Catharines Bronson

Courage to Be Yourself by Sue Pattonnthoele

Outgrowing the Pain– A Book for and About Adults Abused as Children by Eliana Gil, PhD

Banished Knowledge by Alice Miller


Male Survivors

Healing the Shame That Binds You by John Bradshaw

Homecomings by John Bradshaw

Victims No Longer by Mike Lew

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