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BostonPL_Trauma, Therapy, & Mental Health

Trauma can live in the body and affect our day to day life. And, there are many types of therapy and healing paths to be explored. There are so many books on these vast topics and this is by no means an exhaustive list, but it is a place to start.

17 items

  • No Bad Parts

    Healing Trauma & Restoring Wholeness With the Internal Family Systems Model

    Schwartz, Richard C.,
    Available as an ebook too.
    BookBoulder, Colorado : Sounds True, 2021. — RC480 .S334 2021
  • My Grandmother's Hands

    Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

    Menakem, Resmaa,
    Available as an ebook too.
    BookLas Vegas, NV : Central Recovery Press, 2017. — E185.615 .M38 2017
  • The Deepest Well

    Healing the Long-term Effects of Childhood Adversity

    Burke Harris, Nadine, 1975-
    Available as an ebook too.
    BookBoston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2018] — RJ506.P66 B87 2018x
  • The Body Keeps the Score

    Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

    Van der Kolk, Bessel A., 1943-
    Available as an ebook and audiobook too.
    BookNew York, New York : Viking, 2014. — RC552.P67 V357 2014x
  • Losing Our Minds

    the Challenge of Defining Mental Illness

    Foulkes, Lucy,
    Available as an ebook and audiobook too.
    BookNew York : St. Martin's Press, 2022. — RC437.5 .F685 2022
  • Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome

    America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing

    Leary, Joy DeGruy
    Book[Portland, Oregon] : Joy DeGruy Publications Inc., [2017] — RC451.5.N4 L43 2017bx
  • Healing

    Our Path From Mental Illness to Mental Health

    Insel, Thomas R., 1951-
    Available as an ebook too.
    BookNew York : Penguin Press, 2022. — RA790.6 .I576 2022
  • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

    a Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

    Gottlieb, Lori,
    Available as an ebook and audiobook too.
    BookBoston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019. — RC480.8 .G68 2019
  • Ebook and audiobook available too.
    BookEncinitas, CA : PuddleDancer Press, 2015. — BF637.C45 R645 2015
  • It Didn't Start With You

    How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle

    Wolynn, Mark,
    Available as an audiobook too.
    BookNew York : Viking, 2016. — BF637.S4 W6575 2016
  • Traumatized

    Identify, Understand, and Cope With PTSD and Emotional Stress

    Morton, Kati,
    BookNew York : Hachette Go, 2021. — RC552.P67 M684 2021
  • The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health

    Navigate An Unequal System, Learn Tools for Emotional Wellness, and Get the Help You Deserve

    Walker, Rheeda,
    Available as an ebook too.
    BookOakland, CA : New Harbinger Publications, Inc., [2020] — RC451.5.N4 W35 2020x
  • The Politics of Trauma

    Somatics, Healing, and Social Justice

    Haines, Staci,
    BookBerkeley, California : North Atlantic Books, [2019] — BF175.5.P75 H35 2019
  • Available as an ebook and audiobook too.
    BookVancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press, [2018] — HV1568 .P54 2018x
  • Trauma Stewardship

    An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others

    Lipsky, Laura van Dernoot,
    Available as an ebook and audiobook too.
    BookOakland, CA : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, [2009] — RA997 .L567 2009