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I know all too well that the current resources available for survivors, supporters, and therapists are few and far between. While it’s part of my goal to broaden the number of resources available, in the meantime I would like to supply you with a few resources that I feel pass the test.
However, with that approval, I can’t endorse the text, treatment methods, or any changes in content or views that may be shared by respective authors. Please use your discretion. These lists will likely be updated frequently as we discover more commendable people and organizations fighting the good fight.
While I am in a much better place with my trauma history, my loved ones especially close partners who don’t share this kind of history – sometimes struggle to know how best to support me. I’ve had time to read, engage in trauma therapy, and connect with community around these issues, but my loved ones haven’t done that work.
Friends and family of people with C-PTSD don’t always have the same level of education and understanding that survivors do. That is why I wanted to create this quick resource not just to help fellow survivors, but to serve as a jumping off point for other people on how to better support trauma survivors and people with CPTSD.
The Body Keeps Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk MD – Click Here to view on Amazon.
This book was suggested to me by my trauma therapist. I had no interest in reading it, but I pushed myself as I was willing to try anything to help me deal with my trauma. This book did not disappoint. It was hard to stop reading. I was able to read the whole book in 4 days. I highly recommend this to anyone experiencing trauma that needs healing. He covers so many forms of abuse, ptsd, veterans, priests, school bus drivers, etc. Throughout the book he explains stories of all his various memorable patients. Then he goes into great detail with how you can teach your brain and your body to heal.
An astonishing amount of information on almost every aspect of trauma experience, research, interventions, and theories is brought together in this book, which . . . has a distinctly holistic feel to it. The title suggests that what will be explored is how the body retains the imprints of trauma. However, it delivers much more than this, delving into how the brain is impacted by overwhelming traumatic events, and is studded with sections on neuroscience which draw on the author’s own numerous studies as well as that of his peers. In addition, it investigates the effects of adverse childhood attachment patterns, child abuse, and chronic and long-term abuse. . . . [T]his book is a veritable goldmine of information.”—European Journal of Psychotraumatology
Allies in Healing by Laura Davis- Click here to view on Amazon.com.
This book was suggested to me by my trauma therapist as well. The book is written for the significant other dealing with the survivor. I read this book to try to see things from my husband’s point of view. I am glad I did. This book helped me realize how sometimes we are so consumed with our trauma we don’t realize how it affects those around us. I highly suggest you read this book then share it with your significant other.
BOOKS AND OTHER MEDIA
Books I have not read yet, but have heard fantastic things about:
- Growing Beyond Survival – A Self-Help Toolkit for Managing Traumatic Stress | A Workbook | Elizabeth Vermilyea
- The Haunted Self: Structural Dissociation and the Treatment of Chronic Traumatization | Onno van der Hart, Ellert R. S. Nijenhuis and Kathy Steele
- Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists | A Workbook | Suzette Boon, Kathy Steele, Onno van der Hart
- Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control | For Therapists | Dr. Alison Miller
- A Coloring Book of Healing Images for Adult Survivors of Child Abuse | A Spiral-bound Adult Coloring Book and Workbook | Dr. Ellen Lacter
- Dear Little Ones: A Book about Dissociative Identity Disorder for Young Alters| An Illustrated ‘Children’s Book’ | Jade Miller (You can also listen to her reading of it, and seeing the pages, here on YouTube)
- The Stranger in the Mirror: Dissociation – The Hidden Epidemic | Marlene Steinberg, M.D. (Mostly helpful for loved ones/supporters of those with dissociative disorders; of course needs an update but can still be valuable)
- The Dissociative Identity Disorder Sourcebook | Deborrah Haddock (Also helpful for survivors and their support network despite some additionally outdated material)
- A Fractured Mind | Robert B. Oxnam (And autobiographical tale of a successful male with DID and his journey to discovering his condition in a time where information on DID was quite rare)
- Dissociation and the Dissociative Disorders: DSM-V and Beyond | Paul F. Dell and John A. O’Neill (The most current, up-to-date research-based approach to dissociative disorders, covering many perspectives)
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