Resources
The following books are excellent resources:
- Addictions and Trauma Recovery: Healing the Body Mind and Spirit by Dusty Miller
- Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman
- Life After Trauma: A Workbook for Healing by Dena Rosenbloom, PhD and Mary Beth Williams, PhD
- I Can't Get over It: A Handbook for Trauma Survivors by Aphrodite Matsakis
- Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self by Susan J. Brison
- Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing the Roots of Violence by Robin Karr-Morse and Meredith S. Wiley
- Confronting the Horror: the Aftermath of Violence by Wilma Derksen
- Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (2007) -- Revised & Expanded (2008) by Oliver Sacks
- This is Your Brain in Music by Daniel Levitan
To really understand how trauma and the sanctioned use of violence is upheld by most cultures, read anything by Alice Miller such as:
- The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Cruel Parenting
- For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence
- Breaking Down the Wall of Silence
- Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society's Betrayal of the Child
- The Untouched Key: Tracing Childhood Trauma in Creativity and Destructiveness
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