Books, articles, websites, newsletters, movies for trauma healing (Not sold here)
(I created this list many years ago, and it might not be up-to-date. Some resources and/or books may no longer be available.)
PAIN
The Pain Cure: The Proven Medical Program That Helps End Your Chronic Pain, Dharma Singh Khalsa
Journey with Pain, Ronald Barozzi
Pain: The Gift Nobody Wants, Paul Brand
Mastering Pain: A Twelve Step Program for Coping with Chronic Pain, Richard Sternbach, 1987
Healing Pain: The Innovative, Breakthrough Plan to Overcome your Physical Pain and Emotional Suffering, Ann Berger, M.D.
Pain Free in 6 Weeks, Sherry Rogers, M.D.
Mind/Body Connection
Living Beyond Fear, Jeanne Segal
No Ordinary Moments: A Peaceful Warrior’s Guide to Daily Life, Dan Millman
The 12 Stages of Healing: A Network Approach to Wholeness, Donald Epstein, D.C.
The Black Butterfly: An Invitation to Radical Aliveness, Richard Moss, M.D.
Waking the Tiger, book and tape, Peter Levine, 1997
The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment, Babette Rothschild, 2000
The Body Bears the Burden: Trauma, Dissociation and Disease, Richard Scaer, 2001
At the Speed of Life: A New Approach to Personal Change Through Body Centered Therapy, Drs. Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks
The Trauma Spectrum, Hidden Wounds and Human Resiliency, Richard Scaer
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD
Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes your Biology and How You Can Heal, Donna Jackson Nakazawa
The Relationship of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Adult Health: Turning Gold into Lead, Vincent J. Felitti, M.D.
When the Body Says No: Understanding the Stress Disease Connection, Gabor Mate
Living the Truth: Transform Your Life Through the Power of Insight and Honesty Keith Ablow, M.D.
Inscribed Bodies: Health Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse, Anna Luise Kirkengen, 2001, Kluwer Academic Publishers
Fibromyalgia: Hope from a Completely New Perspective, William Glasser, M.D.
Deep Healing: The Essence of Mind/Body Medicine, Emmett Miller, M.D.
Quantum Healing: Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/Body Medicine, Deepak Chopra, M.D.
Getting Our Bodies Back: Recovery, Healing and Transformation in Body Centered Psychotherapy, Christine Caldwell, 2004
COMPASSIONATE MEDICINE
Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing, Victoria Sweet
God’s Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine, Victoria Sweet
The Healing Companion: Simple and Effective Ways Your Presence Can Help People Heal, Jeff Kane, M.D.
Human Side of Medicine: Learning What it’s Like to Be a Patient and What It’s Like to Be a Physician, Laurence A. Savett, M.D.
Gesundheit: Bringing Good Health to You, the Medical System, and Society through Physician Service, Complementary Therapies, Humor, and Joy, Patch Adams, MD
SEXUAL ABUSE
Reach for the Rainbow: Advanced Healing for Survivors of Sexual Abuse, Lynne Finney
Secret Survivors: Uncovering Incest and Its Aftereffects on Women, E. Sue Blume
The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, Ellen Bass
Finding Courage to Speak: Women’s Survival of Child Abuse, Paige Alisen
Sexual Recovery: Everywoman’s Guide Through Sexual Co-Dependency, Gina Ogden, Ph.D.
Treating the Adult Survivor of Childhood Sexual Abuse, Jody Messler Davis
She Who Was Lost is Remembered: Healing from Incest through Creativity, Edited by Louise Wisechild
Trauma
Drama of the Gifted Child, Alice Miller
Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries, Alice Miller
Shock and Trauma, Will Wilson (article)
Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation, Janina Fisher, Ph.D.
The Mother I Carry: A Memoir of Healing from Emotional Abuse, Louise Wisechild, 1993
I Can’t Get Over It: A Handbook for Trauma Survivors, Aphrodite Matsakis, 1996
Trust After Trauma: A Guide to Relationships for Survivors and Those Who Love Them, 1998, Aphrodite Matsakis
The Developmental Needs Meeting Strategy (DNMS): An Ego State Therapy for Healing Adults with Childhood Trauma and Attachment Wounds, Shirley Jean Schmidt, MA, LPC
The Limits of Talk: Bessel van der Kolk wants to transform the treatment of trauma, Mary Sykes Wylie, Psychotherapy Networker
The Treatment of Traumatic Memories, Onno van der Hart and Kathy Steele
Dependency in the Treatment of Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Dissociative Disorder, Kathy Steele, Omno van der Hart, Ellert Nijenenjuis, The Journal of Trauma and Dissociation
Dissociation, Somatization and Affect Dysregulation: the Complexity of Adaptation of Trauma, Bessel van der Kolk, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Trauma-related Structural Dissociation of the Personality, Ellert Nijenhuis, www.traumapages.com/nijenhuis
Dependency in the Treatment of Complex PTSD and DID, Kathy Steel, Onno van der Hart, E. Nijenhuis (article)
The Effects of Early Relational Trauma on Right Brain Development, Affect Regulation and Infant Mental Health, Allan N. Schore, www.trauma-pages.com
In Terror’s Grip: Healing the Ravages of Trauma, Bessel van der Kolk, The Trauma Center
Neuroception: A Subconscious System for Detecting Threats and Safety, Stephen Porges, Ph.D., www.stephenporges.com
Somatoform Dissociation: Phenomena, Measurement, and Theoretical Issues, Ellert R. S. Nijenhuis
The Haunted Self: Structural Dissociation and the Treatment of Chronic Traumatization (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology), Onno van der Hart, Ph.D.
Memories of Fear: How the Brain Stores and Retrieves Physiologic States, Feelings, Behaviors and Thoughts from Traumatic Events, Bruce Perry, M.D., www.childtrauma.org
The Handbook of Women, Stress and Trauma, Kathleen Kendall-Tackett
Finding the Energy to Heal: How EMDR, Hypnosis, TFT, Imagery, and Body-focused Therapy Can Help Restore Mindbody Health, Maggie Phillips, 2000, Norton
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Sourcebook, Glenn Schiraldi
The Transcendent Child: Tales of Triumph over the Past, Lillian B. Rubin
Children of the Self-Absorbed: A Grown-Up’s Guide to Getting Over Narcissistic Parents, Nina Brown
The Narcissistic Family: Diagnosis and Treatment, Stephanie and Robert
Pressman
Trapped in the Mirror: Adult Children of Narcissists in Their Struggle for Self, Elan Golumb
Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life, Dr. Susan Forward
Emotional Blackmail: When the People in Your Life Use Fear, Obligation, and Guilt to Manipulate You, Dr. Susan Forward
RITUAL ABUSE
Lessons in Evil, Lessons From the Light: A True Story of Satanic Abuse and Spiritual Healing, Gail Feldman, Ph.D.
Combatting Cult Mind Control, Steven Hassan
Releasing the Bonds: Empowering People to Think for Themselves, Steve Hassan
Safe Passage to Healing: Guide for Survivors of Ritual Abuse, Chrystine Oksana
Reaching for the Light: A Guide for Ritual Abuse Survivors and Their Therapists, Emile P. Rose
Breaking the Circle of Satanic Ritual Abuse, Daniel Ryder, 1992
Abuse Beyond Words: The Healing Journey of Reclaiming Our Inner Power and Peace by Speaking the Unspeakable Truth, Moriah St. Clair
Blessed: Reclaiming My Life from the Horrors of Ritual Abuse, Rosie Daymore
Cult and Ritual Abuse, James Randall Noblitt and Pamela Sue Perskin
Breaking Ritual Silence: An Anthology of Ritual Abuse Survivor Stories, Jeanne Marie Lorena and Paula Levy
The Ultimate Challenge: A Revolutionary Sane and Sensible Response to Ritualistic and Cult Related Abuse, Gayle Woodsum
Satanic Ritual Abuse: Principles of Treatment, Colin A. Ross, M.D.
Soul Murder: The Effects of Childhood Abuse and Deprivation, Leonard Shengold
The Paradigm Conspiracy: How Our Systems of Government, Church, School, and Culture Violate Our Human Potential, Christopher Largent and Denise Breton
Ellen Lachter’s Article
Dissociative Identity Disorder, also known as Multiple Personality Disorder
Katherine, It’s Time: The Incredible True Story of Multiple Personalities, Kit Castle
The Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality, Joan Frances Casey
Dissociative Identity Disorder Sourcebook, Deborah Haddock
First Person Plural: My Life as a Multiple, Cameron West, Ph.D. 1999
Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder: Techniques and Strategies for Stabilization, Colin A. Ross, M.D.
The Dissociative Child: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Management, Joyanna L. Silbert, Sidran Press, 1998
Voices, Trula Michaels LaCalle, Ph.D.
The Magic Daughter: A Memoir of Living with Multiple Personality Disorder, Jane Phillips 1995 Viking
The Way We Are: How States of Mind Influence our Identities, Personality and Potential for Change, Dr. Frank Putnam
Stranger in the Mirror: Dissociation, the Hidden Epidemic, Marlene Steinberg, M.D.
Miscellaneous Psychological Issues
Obsessive Compulsive Disorders: Treating and Understanding Crippling Problems, Steven Levenkron
Healing Anxiety Naturally, Harold Bloomfield, M.D.
Scattered: Attention Deficit Disorder, Gabor Mate
Shorter Term Treatments for Borderline personality Disorders (Best Practices for Therapy), John D. Preston
Borderline Patients: Extending the Limits of Treatability, Applebaum, Yeomans, Koenigsberg, Stone and Kernberg
New Hope for People with Borderline Personality Disorder: Your Friendly, Authoritative Guide to the Latest in Traditional and Complementary Solutions, Neil Bockian and Nora Villagran
Hope: A Shield in the Economy of Borderline States, Anna Potamianou
Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking your life back when someone you care about has borderline personality disorder, Paul Mason and Randi Kreger
Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Regulation: Insights from the Polyvagal Theory, Stephen Porges, Ph.D., www.stephenporges.com
Lost Childhoods: The Plight of the Parentified Child, Gregor Jurkovic
Silently Seduced: When Parents Make their Children Partners – Understanding Covert Incest, Kenneth M. Adams
When You and Your Mother Can’t be Friends: Resolving the Most complicated Relationship of Your Life, Victoria Secunda
Psychotherapies
Flow, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The Past Gets in My Eyes: Right Brain Imagery and Hypnotherapy for Treatment of Sexual, Physical and Emotional Trauma and Abuse, Jack Birnbaum, M.D.
The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy, Viktor Frankl
Becoming Attached: First Relationships and How They Shape Our Capacity to Love, Robert Karen, Ph.D.
The Black Swan: Twelve Lessons of Abandonment Recovery, Susan Anderson
Choice Theory: A New Psychology of Personal Freedom, William Glasser, MD
Psychotherapy with “Impossible Cases”: The Efficient Treatment of Therapy Veterans, Barry Duncan, Mark Hubble, Scott Miller
Psychotherapy Relationships that Work: Therapist Contributions and Responsiveness to Patients, edited by John Norcross
Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, Diana Fosha
The Transforming Power of Affect: A Model for Accelerated Change, Diana Fosha
Self-Esteem Therapy, Anger Therapy and other Elf Help Books, Karen Katafiasz
Compassionate Therapy: Working with Difficult Clients, Jeffrey Kottler
Interventions and Strategies in Counseling and Psychotherapy, Richard Watts and Jon Carlson
Brief but Comprehensive Psychotherapy: The Multimodal Way, Arnold Lazarus, Ph.D.
Case Studies in Psychotherapy, Danny Wedding, Ph.D.
Six Therapists and One Client, Frank Dumont
Psychotherapy Relationships that Work, John Norcross, Ph.D.
How People Change, Allen Wheelis
How to Stubbornly Refuse to Make Yourself Miserable about Anything, Albert Ellis
Psychotherapy with Impossible Clients, Scott Miller
Trick or Treatment: How and When Psychotherapy Fails, Richard Stuart
The Talking Cure: The Science of Psychotherapy, Susan Vaughan, M.D.
Mind Games: Are We Obsessed With Therapy, Robert Baker
Your Drug May Be Your Problem: How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Medications, Peter Breggin, M.D., 1999
Toxic Psychiatry, Peter Breggin, M.D. 1991
SPIRITUAL
The Light Inside the Dark: Zen, Soul, and the Spiritual Life, John Tarrant
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times, Pema Chodron
The Places that Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times, Pema Chodron
Women Who Run with Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Circle of Stones: A Woman’s Journey to Herself, Judith Duerk
Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
Journey of Souls, Michael Newton
Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom, John O’Donohue
Wrestling with Your Angels: A Spiritual Journey to Great Writing, Janet Hagberg
Walking a Sacred Path: Rediscovering the Labyrinth as a Spiritual Practice, Lauren Artress
Horse, Follow Closely: Native American Horsemanship, GaWaNi Pony Boy
The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity, Julia Cameron
New and Selected Poems, Mary Oliver
Sacred Space: Clearing and Enhancing the Energy of Your Home, Denise Lynn
Self-Help
Beyond Mars and Venus: Relationship Skills for Today’s Complex World, John Gray
Making Sense of Suffering: The Healing Confrontation with Your Own Past, J. Konrad Stettbacher
The Dark Side of the Inner Child: The Next Step, Stephen Wolinsky
Navigating Midlife: Women Becoming Themselves, Robyn Vickers-Willis
The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognize It and How to Respond, Patricia Evans
The Secret of Overcoming Verbal Abuse: Getting Off the Emotional Roller Coaster and Regaining Control of Your Life, Ellis, Albert and Powers, Marcia Grad
You Can Heal Your Life, Louise Hay
Getting Through the Day: Strategies for Adults Hurt as Children, Nancy Napier
Growing Beyond Survival: A Self-Help Toolkit for Managing Traumatic Stress, Elizabeth Vermilyea
The Journey: An Extraordinary Guide for Healing Your Life and Setting Yourself Free, Brandon Bays
The Reconnection: Heal Others, Heal Yourself, Dr. Eric Pearl
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, Natalie Goldberg
Prewriting: Clustering, Melanie Dawson and Joe Essid
Movies
Murder in the First with Kevin Bacon
Corinna Corinna with Whoopi Goldberg
Multiplicity with Michael Keaton
Inner Child Cards, Isha and Mark Lerner
Children’s
I’m in Charge of Celebrations, Byrd Baylor
Mama, Do You Love Me? Barbara M. Joosse
The Rainbow Fish, Marcus Pfister
Health
Medical Medium: Secrets Behind Chronic and Mystery Illness and How to Finally Heal, Anthony Williams
The E.I. Syndrome: An Rx for Environmental Illness, Sherry Rogers, M.D.
www.drmercola.com
NATURE
Nature-Speak, Ted Andrews
The Healing Energies of Trees, Patrice Bouchardon
Forest Therapy: Seasonal Ways to Embrace Nature for a Happier You, Sarah Ivens
Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind, Theodore Roszak
The Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy, Valerie Ann Worwood
Organizations
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, www.missingkids.com
Stop sexual abuse, www.stopitnow.org
Blue Knot Foundation in Australia, National Centre of Excellence for Complex Trauma, www.blueknot.org
Ritual Abuse Network Scotland, RANS, www.rans.org.uk
Izzy’s Promise, www.izzyspromise.org.uk
Your Strength To Heal (from abuse and trauma), www.strengthtoheal.org
Stop Mind Control and Ritual Abuse Today, S.M.A.R.T., ritualabuse.us
For survivors of ritual abuse, mind control and torture and pro-survivors, www.survivorship.org
ra-info
Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network, RAINN, www.rainn.org
Early Development and Well-Being, www.zerotothree.org
Overcoming Adversity (Miscellaneous)
Waking: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence, Matthew Sanford
We Die Alone, David Armine Howarth