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Bessel van der Kolk on Trauma, Development and Healing

By David Bullard — 2014

Internationally acclaimed clinician, educator and researcher Bessel van der Kolk shares some observations from his 40-year passion for understanding and treating people who have experienced trauma.

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The Posttraumatic Growth Workbook: Coming Through Trauma Wiser, Stronger, and More Resilient

People who experience trauma often struggle with its effects, but many men and women have found meaning in their traumatic event and now experience life differently.

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Richard G. Tedeschi, Bret A. Moore
2025
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Transforming Trauma: The Path to Hope and Healing

In his role as the founder and executive director of The Center for Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM), Dr. Gordon has created and implemented what may well be the world’s largest and most effective program for healing population-wide psychological trauma.

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James Gordon
2021
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Military PTSD - Thriving Not Just Surviving

Living with PTSD is difficult but you can recover and become more resilient.

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2018
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How Veteran Keith Sekora’s Family Helps Him Adapt to Life Back Home

Keith suffered a brain injury during his service that resulted in memory loss. Everyday he has difficulties recalling things, even important family events. Although he cannot remember 70–80% of his day, he chooses to push himself for his wife and daughter.

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2015
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Digging for Victory: Horticultural Therapy with Veterans for Post-Traumatic Growth

Horticultural Therapy is ideally suited to engage veterans alienated from traditional civilian healthcare routes who present with a range of complex and challenging healthcare needs. It presents, on the surface, as a deceptively simple and accessible activity.

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Joanna Wise
2015
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Posttraumatic Growth: Theory, Research, and Applications

Posttraumatic Growth reworks and overhauls the seminal 2006 Handbook of Posttraumatic Growth.

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Richard G. Tedeschi, Jane Shakespeare-Finch, Kanako Taku, Lawrence G. Calhoun
2025
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Disabled Veterans Help Each Other Heal Through Fly Fishing

In 1968, Edward Veaudry was drafted to the US ARMY and during his service he transported over 400 deceased GI’s to Saigon where they were taken home to US soil.

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2018
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Wheels of Courage: How Paralyzed Veterans from World War II Invented Wheelchair Sports, Fought for Disability Rights, and Inspired a Nation

Wheels of Courage tells the stirring story of the soldiers, sailors, and marines who were paralyzed on the battlefield during World War II-at the Battle of the Bulge, on the island of Okinawa, inside Japanese POW camps—only to return to a world unused to dealing with their traumatic injuries.

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David Davis
2022
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Where War Ends: A Combat Veteran’s 2,700-Mile Journey to Heal―Recovering from PTSD and Moral Injury through Meditation

Winner of a 2019 Foreword INDIES Silver Book of the Year Award After serving in a scout-sniper platoon in Mosul, Tom Voss came home carrying invisible wounds of war—the memory of doing or witnessing things that went against his fundamental beliefs.

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Tom Voss, Rebecca Anne Nguyen
2025
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Healing Invisible Wounds: Paths to Hope and Recovery in a Violent World

In these personal reflections on his thirty years of clinical work with victims of genocide, torture, and abuse in the United States, Cambodia, Bosnia, and other parts of the world, Richard Mollica describes the surprising capacity of traumatized people to heal themselves.

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Richard F. Mollica
2025
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