Reads:
For Clinician Colleagues & Reading Enthusiasts Alike
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Lopez Lomong - Running for My Life: One Lost Boy's Journey from the Killing Fields of Sudan to the Olympic Games
Bozoma Saint John - The Urgent Life: My Story of Love, Loss, and Survival
Johnnie Clark - Guns Up: A Firsthand Account of the Vietnam War
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Dr. Bruce Perry - The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing
Dr. Mary Pipher - Letters to a Young Therapist
Dr. Allan Schore - The Right Brain and the Origin of Human Nature (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
Dr. Peter Salerno - Cruelty by Nature: The Science of Intentional Abuse
Dr. Uri Bergmann - Neurobiological Foundations for EMDR Practice
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Lundy Bancroft - Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
Kimberly Taylor - Exposing the Abusive Female
Dr. Patrick Carnes - The Betrayal Bond: Breaking Free of Exploitive Relationships
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Fizza Masood - The Boy Who Drummed His Feelings
(supports emotion calming, healthy adult connection, inner structure, curiosity, expression, resilience, and more)
Russell Hoban - A Bargain for Frances
(supports navigating healthy boundaries, voice and self-advocacy, recognizing manipulation, overcoming relational betrayal, and more)
Margaret Holmes - A Terrible Thing Happened: A Story for Children Who Have Witnessed Violence or Trauma
(supports navigating resilience post-trauma, curiosity, creativity, and more)
Some of this can be an add on for encouragement, lifelong learning, personal or professional growth, or similar!*many of these texts offer well-rounded perspectives, with most written by authors who are extremely resilient individuals or science-rooted clinical experts or both, several of whom display in their materials not only demonstration of their knowledge, but also a tremendous capacity to embody the duality of deep honesty and profound empathy*Disclaimer: all of this recommended readings webpage is not supervision, professional service, or professional counseling and is not considered suitable for such. Please note that practical application or general perspective formulating or anything related to your experience in any way, regarding selected texts displayed or similar related to the webpage, occurs at viewer’s own discretion and your viewing of this webpage implies acknowledgement of such.