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Post-Traumatic Stress (PTSD) & resiliencebooks

Below are the best books we could find on Post-Traumatic Stress (PTSD) and resilience.

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The End of Trauma: How the New Science of Resilience Is Changing How We Think About PTSD

A top expert on human trauma argues that we vastly overestimate how common PTSD is and fail to recognize how resilient people really are. After 9/11, mental health professionals flocked to New York to handle what everyone assumed would be a flood of trauma cases. Oddly, the flood never came.

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George A. Bonanno
2024
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Struggle Well: Thriving in the Aftermath of Trauma

Your struggle may come in different forms, and be given one of many different names, such as anxiety, depression, addiction, and/or PTSD.

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Ken Falke, Josh Goldberg
2018
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War and the Soul: Healing Our Nation’s Veterans from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

War and PTSD are on the public’s mind as news stories regularly describe insurgency attacks in Iraq and paint grim portraits of the lives of returning soldiers afflicted with PTSD.

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Edward Tick
2024
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The Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook: Practical Mind-Body Tools to Heal Trauma, Foster Resilience and Awaken Your Potential

Traumatic life experiences can be devastating and they inevitably shape who you are. Such events can also become a powerful force that awakens you to an undercurrent of your own aliveness. Trauma recovery involves learning to trust in your capacity for new growth.

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Arielle Schwartz
2020
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Afterwar: Healing the Moral Wounds of Our Soldiers

Movies like American Sniper and The Hurt Locker hint at the inner scars our soldiers incur during service in a war zone. The moral dimensions of their psychological injuries—guilt, shame, feeling responsible for doing wrong or being wronged—elude conventional treatment.

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Nancy Sherman
2024
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Oppression and the Body: Roots, Resistance, and Resolutions

Asserting that the body is the main site of oppression in Western society, the contributors to this pioneering volume explore the complex issue of embodiment and how it relates to social inclusion and marginalization.

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Christine Caldwell (editor), Lucia Bennett Leighton (editor)
2018
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On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace (3rd Edition)

On Combat looks at what happens to the human body under the stresses of deadly battle the impact on the nervous system, heart, breathing, visual and auditory perception, memory—then discusses new research findings as to what measures warriors can take to prevent such debilitations so they can stay...

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Dave Grossman, Loren W. Christensen
2008
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Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving—A Guide and Map for Recovering from Childhood Trauma

I have Complex PTSD [Cptsd] and wrote this book from the perspective of someone who has experienced a great reduction of symptoms over the years. I also wrote it from the viewpoint of someone who has discovered many silver linings in the long, windy, bumpy road of recovering from Cptsd.

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Pete Walker
2013
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Tough as They Come

Thousands have been wounded in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Five have survived quadruple amputee injuries. This is one soldier’s story. Thousands of soldiers die every year to defend their country.

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Travis Mills, Marcus Brotherton
2024
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Combat Vet Don’t Mean Crazy: Veteran Mental Health in Post-Military Life

When it comes to veteran mental health, there are some preconceived notions about what it means. After over a decade and a half of sustained combat operations and high operational tempo, the topic of veteran mental health has emerged into the public consciousness.

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Duane K. L. France
2018
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