Reading Materials

Introductory and Self Help Books

Bass, E. Davis, L. (2004) The Courage to Heal - Third Edition - Revised and Expanded: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse. HarperCollins, New York, NY

Bradshaw, John (1988) Bradshaw On: The Family: A New Way of Creating Solid Self-Esteem. Health Communications, Inc., Deerfield Beach, FL

Bradshaw, John (1988) Healing the Shame that Binds You. Health Communications, Inc., Deerfield Beach, FL

Dyre, Wayne (1995) Your Erroneous Zones. Avon Books, New York, NY.

Peck, Scott (1978) The road less traveled. Touchtone, New York, NY.

Scaer, R. (2007). The body bears the burden: trauma, dissociation, and disease. Routledge, New York.

Moderate Reading

Anderson, F.S. (2008) (Ed.), Bodies in treatment: The unspoken dimension. New York: The Analytic Press.

Cornell, W.F., (2008). Explorations in transactional analysis: The meech lake papers. Pleasanton, California: Transactional Analysis Press.

LeDoux, J. (1996). The emotional brain: The mysterious underpinnings of emotional life. New York: Touchstone.

LeDoux, J. (2002). Synaptic self: How our brains become who we are. Penguin Books, New York.

Ogden, P., Minton, K., & Pain, C. (2006). Trauma and the body: A sensorimotor approach to psychotherapy. New York: W.W. Norton, Inc.

van der Kolk, B. A., A. McFarlane, L. Weisaeth (eds.),(1996). Traumatic stress: the effects of overwhelming experience on mind body and society. The Guildford Press: New York.

Advanced Readings

Bromberg, P. (1998). Standing in the spaces: Essays on clinical process, trauma, and dissociation. Hillsdale, New Jersey: The Analytic Press.

Bromberg, P. (2006). Awakening the dreamer: Clinical journeys. Mahwah, New Jersey: The Analytic Press.

Howell, E. (2005). The dissociative mind. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press, Inc.

Panksepp, J. (1998). Affective neuroscience: The foundations of human and animal emotions. New York: Oxford University Press, Inc.

Solms, M. & Turnbull, O. (2002). The brain and the inner world: An introduction to the neuroscience of subjective experience. New York, Other Press.

Stolorow, R. (2007). Trauma and human existence: Autobiographical, psychoanalytic, and philosophical reflections. New York: The Analytic Press.