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Fariha Róisín Turns Personal Trauma into Narratives of Cultural Resistance

By Fariha Róisín — 2021

Document takes you inside Róisín’s home as she talks beauty, recovery, and navigating cultural shame

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Jeremy Adam Smith
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Grieving the Losses of Coronavirus

In addition to the tragic losses of life and health and jobs, we are grieving the losses of weddings, sports and the ability to buy eggs or get a haircut.

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Lori Gottlieb
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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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Trauma: A Social Theory

In this book Jeffrey C. Alexander develops an original social theory of trauma and uses it to carry out a series of empirical investigations into social suffering around the globe.

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Jeffrey C. Alexander
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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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What Doesn’t Kill Us: The New Psychology of Posttraumatic Growth

For the past twenty years, pioneering psychologist Stephen Joseph has worked with survivors of trauma.

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Stephen Joseph
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The Second Assault

Victims of childhood sexual abuse are far more likely to become obese adults. New research shows that early trauma is so damaging that it can disrupt a person’s entire psychology and metabolism.

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Olga Khazan
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Moving Beyond Trauma: The Roadmap to Healing from Your Past and Living with Ease and Vitality

Have you noticed that no matter how much time you spend in talk therapy, you still feel anxious and triggered? That is because talk therapy can keep you stuck in a pattern of reliving your stories, rather than moving beyond them.

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Ilene Smith
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How to Recognize and Cope with Racial Trauma

Racial trauma is a reaction to experiences of racism, including violence or humiliation. You might also hear it referred to as race-based trauma or race-based traumatic stress...Here’s a closer look at what racial trauma involves, and how to find culturally appropriate support.

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Krystal Kavita Jagoo
2020
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Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma: A Workbook for Survivors and Therapists

Traumatic experiences leave a “living legacy” of effects that often persist for years and decades after the events are over. Historically, it has always been assumed that re-telling the story of what happened would resolve these effects.

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Janina Fisher
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