Some survivors of childhood trauma and child abuse who we have supported have found the following books helpful.
• Babette Rothschild: 8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery: Take-Charge Strategies to Empower Your Healing (8 Keys to Mental Health)
• Babette Rothschild: The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment, 2000
• Bessel van der Kolk: The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma
• Beverley Engel: It Wasn’t Your Fault: Freeing Yourself from the Shame of Childhood Abuse with the Power of Self-Compassion
• Janina Fisher: Healing the fragmented selves of trauma survivors
• Alice Miller: The Body Never Lies
• Peter Levine: Waking the Tiger – Healing Trauma
Some sexual abuse survivors have found the following books helpful:
• Ellen Bass & Laura Davis: The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (20th Anniversary edition)
• Mike Lew: Victims No Longer: The Classic Guide for Men Recovering from Sexual Child Abuse
• Daniel Siegel & Marion Solomon: Healing Trauma: Attachment, Mind, Body and Brain