Recs if you like Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving - A Guide and Map for Recovering from Childhood Trauma...
books your therapist would recommend to you
this list spans from self help books that are actually helpful to in depth theories about healing. you would probably find quite a few of these books on your therapist’s bookshelf. maybe you are looking for deeper healing. maybe you are a therapist looking for your next read. welcome :)
CPTSD and Inner Child Healing
After submitting a Club Post https://pagebound.co/posts/578725, the incredibly kind community on PageBound left lots of lovely comments and book recommendations, both fiction and nonfiction. This list is based on these book recommendations. I highly recommend checking out the comments people have left there as it all feels like a warm hug ❤️
Feel free to give recommendations 😊
CPTSD Recovery
This is a personal curriculum reading list that was put together to help with understanding CPTSD and how to begin the journey to recovery. This list was created with people who identify as creative women in mind; however, the titles on this list are useful reads for anyone who wants to figure themselves out and hopefully live life feeling more at ease, safe, and confident.
Understanding trauma and CPTSD
Mental Health & Trauma
Books that help with trauma, mental health, and my autism & ADHD.
Reading on Complex Trauma 🕊️
A mix of memoir, fiction, and psychology exploring the impact of complex trauma - and the ways people survive, create meaning, and heal.
On Trauma, Neurodiversity & Mental Illness
Memoirs, psychology texts, reference papers, workbooks and novels... if those things are a primary focus of the text, it's going here.
Trauma Literacy
Nonfiction focused on trauma, dissociation, and the neuroscience of how we survive. For survivors, clinicians, students, and the casually curious.
Reading to Learn
Some books I want to read in the next couple years. I want to learn more things, especially about philosophy, the state of the world, mythology, and history.
Project LETS: Learn About Trauma
Project LETS’s beyond The Body Keeps the Score recommendations.
“What’s wrong with TBKTS?…some major criticisms from community members include: -Status quo politics; Western and Eurocentric perspectives on trauma, -Lack of analysis around politics, oppression, identity, and trauma -Author is accused of sexual misconduct, various forms of harassment…"
Trauma-away
These are books that have supported my childhood-trauma healing journey. They voice experiences common to survivors and highlight a way forward
I have potential as the therapist AND the patient
NF books mainly focused on trauma, especially complex trauma.
So you're studying your psychology/ counseling degree and realize you have the potential to make a good therapist and a good patient. I got you.
The following are books for those looking to develop their therapeutic knowledge, or those so deep into the trenches of their mental health recovery they're explaining therapy modalities to their therapist (or both like me)
Real Psychology
No self help over here! But also not too advanced :)
[IN PROGRESS]
ESSENTIAL MENTAL HEALTH BOOKS
maybe my parents messed me up
a collection of books that have slowly helped the hurt child inside of me. maybe words on a page can fix you… and a lot of therapy.
Therabussy
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