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“What is easy and obvious is never valued; and even what is in itself difficult, if we come to knowledge of it without difficulty, and without and stretch of thought or judgment, is but little regarded.”
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Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell was an American mythologist, writer and lecturer, best known for his work in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work covers many aspects of the human experience.
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Robert M. Sapolsky PhD.
Robert Morris Sapolsky is an American neuroendocrinologist and author. He is currently a professor of biology, and professor of neurology and neurological sciences and, by courtesy, neurosurgery, at Stanford University. |
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Dr. Anna Baranowsky
Anna B. Baranowsky is a Canadian Clinical Psychologist and the founder and CEO of the Traumatology Institute. She works with trauma survivors and those with posttraumatic stress disorder on post-traumatic growth and recovery.
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Trauma Practice, now in its 3rd edition, is back by popular demand! Filled with new resources, this book based on the tri-phasic trauma treatment model is a guide for both seasoned trauma therapists and newer mental health professionals seeking practical approaches that work.
What Is PTSD? 3 Steps to Healing Trauma is the perfect companion for your recovery, introducing you to techniques and strategies that have helped thousands of our clients embark on their own healing journey.
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Michele Rosenthal
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At the age of thirteen Michele Rosenthal survived a life-threatening illness. Out of the hospital and making a full recovery, she believed if she only looked toward the future she could escape the trauma in her past. Twenty-five years later. . .the young girl had become a woman imprisoned by memories, fear and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
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MICHELE ROSENTHAL is the Chief Hope Officer (CHO) of Your Life After Trauma, LLC. A popular keynote speaker, award-winning blogger and certified professional coach, Michele hosts the radio program, Changing Direction, and is the founder of HealMyPTSD.com.
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“In 1981 as a thirteen-year-old child I was given a routine antibiotic for a routine infection and suffered anything but a routine reaction. An undiscovered allergy to the medication turned me into a full-body burn victim almost overnight. By the time I was released from the hospital I had lost 100% of my epidermis. Even more importantly, I had completely lost myself.”
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Dr. Gabor Mate
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In this timely and profoundly original book, writer and physician Gabor Maté looks at the epidemic of various addictions in our society, tells us why we are so prone to them and outlines what is needed to liberate ourselves from their hold. A haunting, compassionate and deeply personal examination of the nature of addiction.
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A renowned speaker, and bestselling author, Dr. Gabor Maté is highly sought after for his expertise on a range of topics including addiction, stress and childhood development.
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In this accessible and groundbreaking book--filled with the moving stories of real people--medical doctor and bestselling author Gabor Maté shows that emotion and psychological stress play a powerful role in the onset of chronic illness, including breast cancer, prostate cancer, multiple sclerosis and many others, even Alzheimer's disease.
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Jonathan Shay PhD.
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In this strikingly original and groundbreaking book, Dr. Shay examines the psychological devastation of war by comparing the soldiers of Homer’s Iliad with Vietnam veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Jonathan Shay is a clinical psychiatrist whose treatment of combat trauma suffered by Vietnam veterans combined with his critical and imaginative interpretations of the ancient accounts of battle described in Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are deepening our understanding of the effects of warfare on the individual.
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In this ambitious follow-up to Achilles in Vietnam, Dr. Jonathan Shay uses the Odyssey, the story of a soldier's homecoming, to illuminate the pitfalls that trap many veterans on the road back to civilian life. . .Shay deepens our understanding of both the combat veteran's experience and one of the world's greatest classics.
More From Jonathan Shay Achilles In Vietnam Documentary |
David Berceli PhD
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Shake It Off Naturally contains an easy to follow stress reduction exercise technique whose central aspect is the activation of a mild shaking response of the nervous system. It explores this most fundamental human experience of ‘shaking’ during highly excited experiences or events. . .reducing psycho-emotional stress and tension.
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David Berceli, Ph.D. is an international expert in the areas of trauma intervention and conflict resolution. He is the creator of Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE). This revolutionary technique is designed to help release. . .traumatic experience (and) chronic stress.
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This book discusses the ground-breaking, Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE). The exercises elicit mild neurogenic tremors that release deep chronic tension in the body and assist the individual in the healing process and day to day stress management.
What Is TRE? YouTube Trauma Recovery Blog-David Berceli Interview |
Dr. Peter levine
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Waking the Tiger offers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It views the human animal as a unique being, endowed with an instinctual capacity. It asks and answers an intriguing question: why are animals in the wild, though threatened routinely, rarely traumatized? By understanding the dynamics that make wild animals virtually immune to traumatic symptoms, the mystery of human trauma is revealed.
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Dr. Peter A. Levine received his PhD in medical biophysics from the University of California in Berkeley and holds a doctorate in psychology from International University. He has worked in the field of trauma for over 40 years and is the developer of the Somatic Experiencing method.
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In this culmination of his life’s work, Peter A. Levine draws on his broad experience as. . . . .a stress scientist and a keen observer of the naturalistic animal world to explain the nature and transformation of trauma in the body, brain and psyche. In an Unspoken Voice is based on the idea that trauma is neither a disease nor a disorder, but rather an injury caused by fright, helplessness and loss that can be healed by engaging our innate capacity to self-regulate high states of arousal and intense emotions.
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Dr. Judith Herman
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When Trauma and Recovery was first published in 1992, it was hailed as a groundbreaking work. By placing individual experience in a broader political frame, Judith Herman argues that psychological trauma can be understood only in a social context.
Conversations With History: Judith Herman: YouTube |
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The psychology of women, child abuse, domestic violence, and post-traumatic disorders are the major research interests of psychiatrist Judith Herman. She is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Director of Training at the Victims of Violence Program at Cambridge Hospital.
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Combining scientific and clinical perspectives, contributors review the research that supports the conceptualization of complex traumatic stress as distinct from PTSD. They explore the pathways by which chronic trauma can affect psychological development, attachment security, and adult relationships.
Conversations With History: Judith Herman: YouTube |
Dr. Sandra Bloom
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For the last thirty years. . .mental health and social service systems have been under relentless assault, with fragmentation of service delivery rendering them incapable of ensuring the safety, security, and recovery of their clients. The resulting organizational trauma both mirrors and magnifies the trauma-related problems their clients seek relief from.
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Dr. Sandra L. Bloom is a Board-Certified psychiatrist, graduate of Temple University School of Medicine and recently was awarded the Temple University School of Medicine Alumni Achievement Award. Dr. Bloom currently serves Andrus Children’s Center in Yonkers, NY.
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This is the third in a trilogy of books that chronicle the revolutionary changes in our mental health and human service delivery systems that have conspired to disempower staff and hinder client recovery.
Creating Sanctuary: Dr. Sandra Bloom More From Dr. Sandra Bloom The Sanctuary Model: Dr. Sandra Bloom Sanctuary Trauma: Dr. Sandra Bloom, M.D. |
Dr. Bessel Van der Kolk
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Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Such experiences. . .leave traces on minds, emotions, and even on biology. Sadly, trauma sufferers frequently pass on their stress to their partners and children.
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Bessel A. van der Kolk M.D. is a clinician, researcher and teacher in the area of posttraumatic stress. His work integrates developmental, neurobiological, psychodynamic and interpersonal aspects of the impact of trauma and its treatment.
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In Trauma and Memory bestselling author Dr. Peter Levine (with Dr. Bessel Van der Kolk) tackles one of the most difficult and controversial questions of PTSD/trauma therapy: Can we trust our memories? While some argue that traumatic memories are unreliable and not useful, others insist that we absolutely must rely on memory to make sense of past experience.
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Charles Figley
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In recent years, much has occurred in the field of traumatology, including the widening of the audience and the awareness of PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder). This book from celebrated traumatology pioneer Charles Figley, further clarifies the concept of compassion fatigue through theory, research, and treatment.
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Charles Figley is a university professor in the field of psychology and family therapy. He is the Paul Henry Kurzweg, MD Distinguished Chair in Disaster Mental Health and Graduate School of Social Work Professor at Tulane University.
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Sleeplessness, depression, anxiety...common symptoms of the burnout that often accompanies living with a loved one who has experienced some kind of traumatic stress. It's well known that the loss of a child, a life-threatening injury, sexual assault or combat experience can affect the victim in traumatic ways, but what's often overlooked is how this trauma affects those closest to the victim - the family.
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Francine Shapiro PhD
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Whether we've experienced small setbacks or major traumas, we are all influenced by memories and experiences we may not remember or don't fully understand. Getting Past Your Past offers practical procedures that demystify the human condition and empower readers looking to achieve real change.
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Francine Shapiro, PhD, is the originator and developer of EMDR, which has been so well researched that it is now recommended as an effective treatment for trauma in the Practice Guidelines of the American Psychiatric Association and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
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When EMDR was first published in 1997, it was hailed as the most important method to emerge in psychotherapy in decades. In the twenty years since, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy has successfully treated psychological problems for millions of sufferers worldwide. In this updated edition, Francine Shapiro offers a new introduction that presents the latest applications of this remarkable therapy,
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Dr. Aphrodite Matsakis
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The simple truth is that PTSD can be extremely debilitating-not just for the person who has experienced trauma first-hand, but for their partners as well. In Loving Someone with PTSD, renowned trauma expert and author of I Can't Get Over It, Aphrodite Matsakis, presents concrete skills and strategies for the partners of those with PTSD.
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Dr. Aphrodite Matsakis has worked as a counseling psychologist for 25 years and has authored over twelve books and numerous articles on an array of psychological topics including post-traumatic stress and clinical depression.
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In this ground-breaking book, Dr. Matsakis explains that post-traumatic stress disorder affects not only soldiers, but also survivors of many other sources of trauma as well. I Can't Get Over It directly addresses survivors of trauma, explains the nature of PTSD, and describes the healing process one can expect when in recovery from trauma and PTSD. More From Dr. Matsakis Here.
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Syd Gravel
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Research shows that eighty percent of suicides have a degree of pre-communication before the act is completed. Therefore, organizations have a responsibility to protect their employees and need the tools to provide assistance. Walk The Talk, coauthored with Brad McKay, hopes to provide quality guidance to employers in Public Safety.
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Syd Gravel is a former staff sergeant with thirty-one years of experience with the Ottawa Police Service. He is one of the founding fathers of Robin’s Blue Circle, a post-shooting trauma team of peers, established in 1988. Syd is a more than twenty-nine-year PTSD survivor and has been a peer supporter since 1988.
Interview With Syd Gravel Here |
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This hard-hitting, real-life testimonial of the need for peer support for posttraumatic stress-related injuries comes from Syd's 25 YEARS of PTSD survival with some powerful insight. Syd shares 4 guiding rules for workplace peer support, 5 healing stages of recovery, how to recognize the 8 most common symptoms of PTSD, and how to organize workshops for peer support.
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Sheela Raja PhD
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If you’ve experienced a traumatic event, you may feel a wide range of emotions, such as anxiety, anger, fear, and depression.
The truth is that there is no right or wrong way to react to trauma; but there are ways that you can heal from your experience, and uncover your own capacity for resilience, growth, and recovery. |
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Sheela Raja, PhD , is a licensed clinical psychologist and author of Overcoming Trauma and PTSD and The Sexual Trauma Workbook for Teen Girls. Raja is an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she researches the impact of trauma on health.
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This empowering workbook will help you move past your trauma and serve as a comforting reminder that you are strong and resilient. Healing is possible-and with healing, comes victory. In this book, you'll find true stories from other teen survivors, and in reading the stories you'll find reassurance in knowing you aren't alone in your experiences.
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Kristin Neff PhD
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Kristin Neff, Ph.D., says that it’s time to “stop beating yourself up and leave insecurity behind.” Self-Compassion offers expert advice on how to limit self-criticism and offset its negative effects, enabling you to achieve your highest potential and a more contented, fulfilled life.
The Space Between Self-Esteem and Self Compassion: Kristin Neff: TedTalk |
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Kristin Neff PhD is a pioneering researcher with the focus of her work including studies into the power of self-compassion for those on a recovery path and for those seeking help with personal development. She is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Self-compassion is a powerful inner resource. More than a thousand research studies show the benefits of being a supportive friend to yourself, especially in times of need. This science-based workbook offers a step-by-step approach to breaking free of harsh self-judgments and impossible standards in order to cultivate emotional well-being.
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Russell Wangersky
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Thousands of boys dream of becoming firefighters. Some get the chance, and for some of those, the dream becomes a nightmare. Burning Down the House is the story of Wangersky’s eight-year career as a volunteer firefighter, an experience that wound up reaching into every facet of his life and changed the way he saw the world forever.
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Russell Wangersky is an award winning writer of fiction and non-fiction. Based in St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador, his highly-acclaimed book, Burning Down The House, is a riveting account of his experiences dealing with human tragedy and his own resulting trauma as a volunteer firefighter.
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As entertaining as they are insightful, the stories in The Path of Most Resistance are anchored by the concept of passive aggression in our everyday lives: ordinary people who are quietly, desperately, and indirectly trying to impose their will on the uncaring world around them.
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Lieutenant-General (Ret) Roméo Dallaire
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Thirteen months after Lt-Gen. Romeo Dallaire flew home from Africa, he found himself broken, disillusioned and suicidal, having witnessed the slaughter of 800,000 Rwandans in only a hundred days. In Shake Hands with the Devil, he takes the reader with him on a return voyage into the hell of Rwanda, vividly recreating the events the international community turned its back on.
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Founder of the Roméo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative, a global partnership with the mission to end the recruitment and use of child soldiers, Romeo Dallaire is a celebrated advocate for human rights. General Dallaire is also a respected government and UN advisor and former Canadian Senator.
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At the heart of Waiting for First Light is a no-holds-barred self-portrait of a top political and military figure whose nights are invaded by despair, but who at first light faces the day with the renewed desire to make a difference in the world. Traumatized by witnessing genocide on an imponderable scale in Rwanda, Gen. Dallaire reflects in these pages on the nature of PTSD and the impact of that deep wound on his life.
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Natalie Harris
Natalie Harris is a mom, an Advanced Care Paramedic and educator is an avid mental health advocate. After battling post traumatic stress disorder and addiction, she openly shares the story of her journey with the world through her personal blog.
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This intense and engaging memoir is based on the true life of Natalie Harris. Mental illness, post-traumatic stress, overdoses, and addiction are some of the demons this paramedic turned author deals with--stemming from a horrific double-murder call. This incredible story makes public the very private battles many face. This book is raw, honest and a window into the mind of someone facing mental illness. Although a serious topic, this biography is at times laugh-out-loud funny, poignant and simply a good, entertaining read. This is a must-have for anyone who wants a cover-to-cover read, keeping you on the edge of your seat.
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Brian Knowler
Brian Knowler has been involved in the area of criminal justice since 1994, when he was entered law school at the University of Windsor. After graduating in 1997, he decided that his true calling in the law field lay in enforcing it. Brian is a PTSD survivor.
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On the Other Side of Broken - One Cop's Battle with the Demons of PTSD is a frank and honest look at the journey Brian and his family took from the lows of the incident that caused Brian's trauma through to post-traumatic growth and a rebuilt life.
Together with his wife Cathy, Brian established Knowler Consulting. The duo offer assistance on ways to keep bodies and minds healthy and balanced and have a special focus on working with emergency responders to help them manage both work and traumatic stress; including improved sleep and better resiliency for shift work. Knowler Consulting |
Gary Rubie
From growing up suffering abuse, to his 25-year career as a city cop, surviving deep depression, suicidal thoughts and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Gary Rubie has made it through his own Dante’s Inferno: The darkest hole imaginable of addictions, his own incarceration and his eventual victorious recovery.
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Writing with complete transparency, Gary Rubie has courageously walked through healing and by turns offers readers to do the same by reflecting through his poetry. Out On A Cliff, an intricately-weaved anthology of lyrical prose, takes readers into an intense journey into Rubie’s mind, providing a glimpse into his soul’s darkest hole.
In this superb translation with an introduction and commentary by Allen Mandelbaum, all of Dante's vivid images--the earthly, sublime, intellectual, demonic, ecstatic--are rendered with marvelous clarity to read like the words of a poet born in our own age.
Gary Rubie: A Story of Strength, Courage & Hope by Lynne Rusk, Badge of Life Canada |
Dr. V.S. Ramachandran
V.S. Ramachandran is Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition and Distinguished Professor with the Psychology Department and Neurosciences Program at the University of California, San Diego, and Adjunct Professor of Biology at the Salk Institute.
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In this landmark work, V. S. Ramachandran investigates strange, unforgettable cases—from patients who believe they are dead to sufferers of phantom limb syndrome. With a storyteller’s eye for compelling case studies and a researcher’s flair for new approaches to age-old questions, Ramachandran tackles the most exciting and controversial topics in brain science, including language, creativity, and consciousness.
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Stephanie Conn
Author Stephanie Conn, a clinician, researcher, former police officer and dispatcher, debunks myths about weakness, offering strategies in plain language for police employees and their families struggling with traumatic stress and burnout.
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Increasing Resilience in Police and Emergency Personnel illuminates the psychological, emotional, behavioral, and spiritual impact of police work on police officers, administrators, emergency communicators, and their families.
Sections of each chapter also offer guidance for frequently overlooked roles such as police administrators and civilian police employees. Using real-world anecdotes and exercises, this book provides strengths-based guidance to help navigate the many complex and sometimes difficult effects of police and emergency work. |
Dr. James Chu
Dr. James Chu is a psychiatrist in Belmont, Massachusetts and is affiliated with McLean Hospital. He received his medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine and has been in practice for more than 20 years.
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In this new edition of Rebuilding Shattered Lives, Dr. Chu distills the wisdom he has gained from many years spent building and directing an extraordinary therapeutic community in a major teaching hospital. Both beginners and experienced clinicians will benefit from this book's unfailing clarity, balance, and pragmatism.
An invaluable resource."--Judith L. Herman, MD, Director of Training for the Victims of Violence Program, Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA Dr. James Chu: Featured Studies Predicting Stabilizing Treatment Outcomes for Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Dissociative Identity Disorder: An Expertise-Based Prognostic Model |
Susan Pease Banitt, LCSW
Susan Pease Banitt, LCSW helps people heal from traumatic stress. Her first book was written for people with PTSD. Susan uses traditional psychotherapy, Reiki, yogic mindfulness therapies and shamanic techniques to help folks overcome PTSD and dissociative disorders as she has done for herself.
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Susan Pease Banitt says that most people experience trauma as a terminal blow to their deepest sense of self. Her techniques restore a sense of wholeness at the core level from which all healing springs. The uniqueness of her book lies in its diversity and accessibility. She assesses the values and limitations of traditional and alternative therapies and suggests methods that are universally available.
Wisdom, Attachment, and Love in Trauma Therapy focuses on the creation of the therapist as healing presence. . .Trauma survivors need wise therapists who practice with the union of intellect, knowledge, and intuition. . .his book shows how Eastern wisdom teachings and Western psycho-therapeutic modalities combine with modern theory to support a knowledgeable, compassionate, and wise therapist who is equipped to help even the most traumatized person heal.
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Dr. C. Otto Scharmer
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Leading From the Emerging Future presents proven practices for building a new economy that is more resilient, intentional, inclusive, and aware.
We have entered an age of disruption. Financial collapse, climate change, resource depletion, and a growing gap between rich and poor are but a few of the signs. Otto Scharmer and Katrin Kaufer ask, why do we collectively create results nobody wants? |
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Dr. C. Otto Scharmer is a Senior Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and founding chair of the Presencing Institute. Scharmer introduced the concept of “presencing”—learning from the emerging future—in his bestselling books Theory U and Presence. MITx U-Lab, has activated a global eco-system of societal and personal renewal.
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The Essentials of Theory-U is a concise, accessible guide to the key concepts and applications in Otto Scharmer's classic Theory U. Scharmer argues that what prevents us from attending to situations more effectively is that we aren't fully aware of that interior condition from which our attention and actions originate. Scharmer calls this lack of awareness our blind spot. He illuminates the blind spot. . .to help change makers overcome, through the process, principles, and practices of Theory U.
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Robin Wall Kimmerer
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers.
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In Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer 'brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise'. (Elizabeth Gilbert).
In reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. More Works From Robin Wall Kimmerer |
Michael Pond
Mike Pond is a West Vancouver-based psychotherapist with unique empathy for those battling substance use and behavioural addictions. . .His search for compassionate evidence-based treatment was captured in the film 'Wasted', which aired on CBC’s, The Nature of Things. Through public speaking and workshops, Pond continues to fight for effective substance use treatment.
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Psychotherapist Mike Pond built a life helping others struggling with addiction, but he could not help himself. . . Along with his partner, Maureen Palmer, Mike embarked on a quest for evidence-based treatments—science-backed therapies that don’t always demand abstinence—a search chronicled in the book’s new second half.
Watch "Wasted" on The Nature of Things The Couch of Willingness: After two decades of helping clients battle addictions, Michael Pond, a successful therapist, succumbs to one himself. He loses his practice, his home and his family to alcoholism, ending up destitute in a rundown recovery home populated by a cast of characters straight out of Dickens. . .Pond’s harrowing two-year journey to sobriety takes stops in abandoned sheds, dumpsters, ditches, emergency wards, intensive care, and finally, prison. His riveting account crackles with raw energy and black humour as he plunges readers into a world few will ever have the misfortune to experience.
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John Ralston Saul
John Ralston Saul has had a growing impact on political and economic thought in many countries. Declared a “prophet” by TIME magazine, he is included in the prestigious Utne Reader’s list of the world’s 100 leading thinkers and visionaries. His 14 works have been translated into 28 languages in 37 countries. Saul’s most recent essay is The Comeback published in October 2014 and translated into French by Daniel Poliquin in 2015 under the title Le Grand Retour.
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In this startlingly original vision of Canada, renowned thinker John Ralston Saul argues that Canada is a Métis nation, heavily influenced and shaped by (Indigenous) ideas: Egalitarianism, a proper balance between individual and group, and a penchant for negotiation over violence are all Aboriginal values that Canada absorbed. An obstacle to our progress, Saul argues, is that Canada has an increasingly ineffective elite, a colonial non-intellectual business elite that doesn't believe in Canada. It is critical that we recognize these aspects of the country in order to rethink it's future.
Historic moments are always uncomfortable, Saul writes in The Comeback, calling on all of us to embrace and support the comeback of Indigenous peoples.
The events that began late in 2012 with the Idle No More movement were not just a rough patch in Indigenous relations with the rest of Canada. What is happening today, Saul argues, is about rebuilding relationships that were central to the creation of Canada as a Nation. |
Desmond & Mpho Tutu
Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, Nobel Peace Laureate and Honorary Elder: Desmond Tutu continues his mission as a veteran anti-apartheid activist and peace campaigner. Archbishop Tutu is widely regarded as ‘South Africa’s moral conscience’.
The Reverend Mpho A. Tutu is an ordained Episcopal Priest and is the founding Director of the Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation. |
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winner,
Founding member and former Chair of The Elders, and Chair of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, along with his daughter, the Reverend Mpho Tutu, offer a manual on the art of forgiveness—helping us to realize that we are all capable of healing and transformation. Follow The Work of The Elders Here In No Future Without Forgiveness, Tutu argues that true reconciliation cannot be achieved by denying the past-Nor is it easy to reconcile when a nation "looks the beast in the eye." Rather than repeat platitudes about forgiveness, he presents a bold spirituality that recognizes the horrors people can inflict upon one another, and yet retains a sense of idealism about reconciliation. Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation |
Professor Robert Wright
Robert Wright is the author, most recently of Why Buddhism is True (2017) and of The Evolution of God (2009), which was a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His other books include The Moral Animal, which The New York Times Book Review named one of the ten best books of 1994.
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From one of America’s greatest minds, Why Buddhism Is True grants readers a journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and enduring happiness. . . If we know our minds are rigged . . .what do we do? Wright locates the answer in Buddhism, which figured out thousands of years ago what scientists are only discovering now.
Are men literally born to cheat? Does monogamy actually serve women's interests? These are among the questions that have made The Moral Animal one of the most provocative science books in recent years. Robert Wright unveils the genetic strategies behind everything from our sexual preferences to our office politics--as well as their implications for our moral codes and public policies. More From Robert Wright |
Rick Hanson, PhD
Rick Hanson, PhD, is a psychologist who's written and taught about the essential inner skills of personal well-being, psychological growth, and contemplative practice – as well as about relationships, family life, and raising children.
"As we’ve learned so much more about the brain over the past twenty years, I’ve been deeply interested in the historically unprecedented meeting of modern neuroscience and ancient contemplative practices." ~ Dr. Rick Hanson |
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By combining breakthroughs in neuroscience with insights from thousands of years of mindfulness practice, Author, Rick Hanson, PhD, explains how you can use your mind to shape your brain for greater happiness, love, and wisdom. Buddha's Brain draws on the latest research to show how to stimulate your brain for more fulfilling relationships, a deeper spiritual life, and a greater sense of inner confidence and worth.
With his trademark blend of neuroscience, mindfulness, and positive psychology, New York Times bestselling author Dr. Rick Hanson shows you how to develop twelve vital inner strengths hardwired into your own nervous system. Then no matter what life throws at you, you’ll be able to feel less stressed, pursue opportunities with confidence, and stay calm and centered in the face of adversity. You've heard the expression, "It's the little things that count." Research has shown that little daily practices can change the way your brain works, too. This book offers simple brain-training practices you can do every day to protect against stress, lift your mood, and find greater emotional resilience. Grow An Unshakable Core of Resilient Well-Being |
Bruce Lipton, PhD
Bruce H. Lipton, PhD is an internationally recognized leader in bridging science and spirit. Stem cell biologist, bestselling author of The Biology of Belief and recipient of the 2009 Goi Peace Award, he has been a guest speaker on hundreds of TV and radio shows, as well as keynote presenter for national and international conferences.
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This 10th-anniversary edition of Bruce Lipton’s best-selling book The Biology of Belief has been updated to bolster the book’s central premise with the latest scientific discoveries—and there have been a lot in the last decade.The Biology of Belief is. . .a profoundly hopeful synthesis of the latest and best research in cell biology and quantum physics has been hailed as a major breakthrough . . .our bodies can be changed as we retrain our thinking.
The Honeymoon Effect: 'A state of bliss, passion, energy, and health resulting from a huge love': Your life is so beautiful that you can't wait to get up to start the day. . .Think back on the most spectacular love affair of your life-the Big One that toppled you head over heels. Life was so beautiful that you couldn't wait to bound out of bed in the morning to experience more Heaven on Earth-it's possible to live that way every day.
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