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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