PTSD & Psychic Trauma: Books & eBooks

Shares specific, critical information and insights into what trauma looks like at different ages, why some kids exposed to the same event react very differently, how to help a child through trauma triggers, when to seek professional help, and more.

Explores the values, principles and practical applications of trauma-informed and -infused health care. Key issues addressed include the importance of cultural humility, the effects of secondary and vicarious trauma, burnout and moral injury.

Demonstrates the parallels between private terrors such as rape and public traumas such as terrorism.

By placing individual experience in a political frame, the author argues that psychological trauma is inseparable from its social and political context. Drawing on her own research on incest, as well as a vast literature on combat veterans and victims of political terror, she shows surprising parallels between private horrors like child abuse and public horrors like war.

Examines how trauma affects an individual's biology, conceptions of the world, and psychological functioning. Key topics include why certain people cope successfully with traumatic experiences while others do not, the neurobiological processes underlying PTSD symptomatology, enduring questions surrounding traumatic memories and dissociation, and the core components of effective interventions.