Trauma and PTSD books
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New to the genre? These 5 are the books to read first.
Trauma and Recovery
Judith Lewis HermanLinks combat trauma with abuse and captivity, and sets out a three-stage model of recovery.
Achilles in Vietnam
Jonathan ShayA veteran psychiatrist reads Homer's Iliad alongside accounts of combat veterans' moral injury.
Unclaimed Experience
Cathy CaruthA literary and theoretical account of how trauma resists being fully recalled and told.
The Harmony of Illusions
Allan YoungA social history of how PTSD was built as a clinical category and where it came from.
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Waking the TigerPeter A. Levine - My Grandmother's Hands
My Grandmother's HandsResmaa Menakem - The Glass Castle
The Glass CastleJeannette Walls - Educated
EducatedTara Westover - The Inner World of Trauma
The Inner World of TraumaDonald Kalsched - A child called "it"
A child called "it"David J. Pelzer1987 - When You're Ready, This Is How You Heal
When You're Ready, This Is How You HealBrianna Wiest2022 - What Happened to You?
What Happened to You?Bruce D. Perry2021 - Complex PTSD
Complex PTSDPete Walker2013 - The Body
The BodyStephen King1988