Showing titles in Trauma Psychology

Discover an empowering new way of understanding your multifaceted mind—and healing the many parts that make you who you are. Is there just one “you”? We’ve been taught to believe we have a single identity, and to feel fear or shame when we can’t control the inner voices that don’t...

From a clinical psychologist and expert in complex trauma recovery comes a powerful guide introducing fawning, an often-overlooked piece of the fight-flight-freeze reaction to trauma—explaining what it is, why it happens, and how to help survivors regain their voice and sense of self. Most of...

In Trauma and the Soul, Donald Kalsched continues the exploration he began in his first book, The Inner World of Trauma (1996)?this time going further into the mystical or spiritual moments that often occur around the intimacies of psychoanalytic work. Through extended clinical vignettes...

Includes a mindfulness meditation led by the author! Instant New York Times Bestseller From psychotherapist and social media star Meg Josephson, a groundbreaking “cure for chronic people-pleasing” (Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author) that explores the common survival instinct...

Why Does Trauma Bonding Feel Like Love Why You Stay, Why It Hurts, and How to Detach and Recover You don’t stay because you don’t see the damage. You stay because leaving feels like losing yourself. Trauma bonding is not weakness. It is not naïveté. And it is not love. It is a psychological attachment formed through intensity, inconsistency, and emotional survival. This book explores why intelligent, self-aware people remain trapped in relationships that erode their sense of reality - and why logic alone cannot free them. Through deeply human examples and precise psychological ...

Are you tired of second-guessing yourself, walking on eggshells, or feeling confused by someone’s behavior? Dark psychology isn’t always loud or obvious - sometimes it’s quiet, subtle, and expertly disguised. But once you understand the patterns, the tactics, and the emotional fingerprints, you can break free from manipulation for good. Understanding Dark Psychology is your clear, compassionate roadmap to recognizing mind games, protecting your boundaries, and reclaiming emotional safety. Written in a warm, empowering tone, this book helps you identify the tactics manipulators use - ...

You are not broken. You are simply a person who learned to survive. You live as if something bad is always about to happen. You move through your days carrying a heavy, invisible weight, a constant, underlying sense that you must guard yourself, perform, or hide just to be safe. To the outside world, you might seem fine. You might even have high functioning anxiety, appearing competent and successful. But inside, you feel like you are performing a role rather than living a life, constantly managing the internal noise of a nervous system that refuses to rest. This is not a personality flaw. ...

What if the struggles you carry today are not personal flaws, but survival patterns you learned when no one protected you? If you grew up with emotionally neglectful, distant, or narcissistic parents, you may still feel the weight of needs that were ignored, minimized, or punished. Those early wounds often echo into adulthood as people pleasing, self doubt, fear of conflict, perfectionism, emotional shutdown, or the painful belief that you are too much or never enough. You are not broken. You adapted to survive. I Had to Raise Myself is a compassionate, research grounded guide for adults ...

¿Y si descubres, demasiado tarde, que nunca empezaste a vivir de verdad? Cada mañana te levantas con la sensación de que algo falta. Cumples obligaciones, tachas tareas, sonríes cuando toca. Pero en el fondo lo sabes: estás posponiendo la vida que realmente quieres vivir. "Cuando tenga más tiempo", "cuando cambien las cosas", "cuando sea el momento perfecto"… Mientras tanto, los días se deslizan. Y un día —quizá dentro de treinta años, quizá mañana— será demasiado tarde. La muerte no es el problema. El problema es vivir como si no fuera a llegar. Memento Mori no es un ...

Brought to you by Penguin. THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - OVER 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here one of the world's experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for treatment, moving away from...

“Discover the Hidden Gender Differences in Dissociative Identity Disorder That Transform Treatment Outcomes” Are you a mental health professional, therapist, or counselor seeking breakthrough insights into Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) and multiple personality disorder? Do you want to understand why trauma recovery and therapeutic approaches must be tailored differently for men and women with DID? In "Dissociative Identity Disorder Differences: How Multiple Personalities, Alters, and Mental Health Changes The Lives of Men vs Women," mental health expert Morris Finney presents the...

Brought to you by Penguin. Are you constantly worried about what people think of you? Psychotherapist Meg Josephson explores the common survival instinct fawning and offers explanations, comfort and solutions. If you ever: Leave social situations overthinking something you’ve said Overlook...

COMPLEX PTSD RECOVERY You deserve to live your best life. Have you wondered what would truly help move the past into the past? What would keep those defenses, impulses, codependency, worry, obsessions, and triggers from intruding into your present life? Have talk therapy and group support reached their limit in helping you make changes and feel better? Complex PTSD has such far-reaching effects as to affect your health, your relationships, your relationship with yourself and your body, and most importantly, it interferes with your ability to learn, grow stronger, and wiser in life. Over the...

A road map for rewiring our brains to unlearn harmful beliefs, heal broken bonds, and transform our communities The beliefs that hold us back—inherited prejudices, self-limiting thoughts, destructive patterns—often feel permanent. But what if they're not? In Radical Unlearning, you’ll...

A lyrical and groundbreaking exploration of the misun­derstood ways women survive and forever carry trauma from the award-winning New York Times Magazine writer Jen Percy. “Percy’s subject is brutal, but her writing allays some of the impact by being almost impossibly beautiful: crisp...

Brought to you by Penguin. Depression. Anxiety. Chronic pain. Phobias. Obsessive thoughts. The evidence is compelling: the root of these difficulties may reside in the traumas of our parents, grandparents and even great-grandparents. The latest research affirms that traumatic experience is...

A profound new approach to healing trauma, grounded in a radical reframing of how we understand this nearly universal experience For centuries, we’ve been taught that being traumatized means we are somehow broken—and that trauma only happens to people who are too fragile or flawed to deal...

If you keep going back to someone who hurt you, this book will finally help you understand why. Whether you’re stuck in an on-off relationship, craving someone who treated you badly, or constantly doubting yourself, what you’re feeling might not be love ~ it might be a trauma bond. The Trauma Bond Cured is a gentle but powerful guide to understanding what’s really going on underneath the surface of an intense, unhealthy relationship. If you've ever felt like you were addicted to your ex, couldn’t walk away, or found yourself drawn to the same type of toxic partner again and again, ...

Are you experiencing physical or emotional symptoms that no one is able to explain? If so, you may be suffering a traumatic reaction to a past event, teaches Dr. Peter A. Levine. Medical researchers have known for decades that survivors of accidents, disaster, and childhood trauma often endure...

🧠 SIMPLIFY COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY 💥 BREAK FREE FROM ANXIETY • 🌱 REROOT YOUR THOUGHTS • 💪 REGAIN CALM CONFIDENCE 📖 INCLUDES BONUS GROUNDING VERSES TO CENTER YOUR MIND AND STRENGTHEN YOUR SPIRIT 🙏 Are you tired of living in your head, constantly overthinking, battling anxiety, and feeling like peace is out of reach? You don't have to stay stuck in fear, stress, or self-doubt. There is a way forward, a proven, practical way to stop runaway thoughts, reframe your mindset, and finally feel calm and in control again. In Simplify Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mystic ...