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Dr. Gabor Maté on the Trauma Underlying the Stigma of Addiction: An Interview

By John Lavitt — 2017

There are legitimate uses of opioids in the treatment of physical pain. There is no legitimate use in the treatment of emotional pain.

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Recovery: Freedom From Our Addictions

With a rare mix of honesty, humor, and compassion, comedian and movie star Russell Brand mines his own wild story and shares the advice and wisdom he has gained through his fourteen years of recovery.

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Russell Brand
2025
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Feel to Heal: Releasing Trauma Through Body Awareness and Breathwork Practice

In this revolutionary approach to living well, a pioneering trauma-release therapist puts relief in reach—with a multi-modal practice that can be done at home.

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Giten Tonkov
2019
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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

In this instant classic of developmental psychology, a renowned psychiatrist examines the effect that trauma can have on a child, reveals how PTSD impacts the developing mind, and outlines the path to recovery.

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Bruce D. Perry, Maia Szalavitz
2017
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The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment

For both clinicians and their clients there is tremendous value in understanding the psychophysiology of trauma and knowing what to do about its manifestations. This book illuminates that physiology, shining a bright light on the impact of trauma on the body and the phenomenon of somatic memory.

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Babette Rothschild
2000
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Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence—From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

Trauma and Recovery is revered as the seminal text on understanding trauma survivors. By placing individual experience in a broader political frame, Harvard psychiatrist Judith Herman argues that psychological trauma is inseparable from its social and political context.

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Judith Herman
2015
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Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy

Trauma and the Body is a detailed review of research in neuroscience, trauma, dissociation, and attachment theory that points to the need for an integrative mind-body approach to trauma.

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Pat Ogden, Kekuni Minton, Clare Pain
2006
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Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction

Unbroken Brain offers a radical and groundbreaking new perspective, arguing that addictions are learning disorders and showing how seeing the condition this way can untangle current debates over treatment, prevention, and policy.

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Maia Szalavitz
2017
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Chicken Soup for the Soul: From Lemons to Lemonade

From lemons to lemonade; from heartbreak to happiness; from victim to victorious.

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Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Amy Newmark
2013
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The Addicted Brain: How to Break Free

Dr. Hyla Cass has discovered that correcting brain chemistry imbalances that trigger addictive behaviors will often eliminate the addiction.

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Hyla Cass
2014
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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors.

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Bessel van der Kolk
2015
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