Library - Section overview

Articles ^{^}

• Articles - Fundamental topics, key issues, valuable reviews

Book reviews ^{^}

• Book review: 8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery - Take-Charge Strategies To Empower Your Healing Babette Rothschild - While you are moving toward recovery, there are things you can do to make it a better journey
• Book review: Coping with trauma-related dissociation - Teaching ideas and skills for us all
• Book review: Resolving the anxiety dilemma - Dylan M. Kollman - Anxiety is your friend…until it isn’t, at which point you will do well to have this book at hand
• Book review: The body keeps the score - Bessel van der Kolk - a highly original contribution from a trauma research pioneer

Psychotherapy and other interventions for psychological trauma and related mental disorders ^{^}

• About my PTSD (Posttraumatic Stress Disorder) - For YOU to give to other adults, to help them understand your PTSD
• Anxiety and mindfulness meditation - A self-managed intervention with no noxious side effects
• Challenge walking - Using your positive body sense to transform negative emotional learning and memory
• Deepening self-awareness in the early stages of psychotherapy - Knowing more enables doing more
• Didn’t have the mother you needed? - Some constructive options to consider
• Explaining your PTSD to your children - A little gentle reassurance can be so very helpful
• Feelings - is there more going on than you know? - How to discover ALL that you are feeling
• Finding a good therapist - How to solve this problem thoughtfully and efficiently
• Journaling as trauma therapy - New research validates the effectiveness of expressive writing
• MDMA for PTSD not recommended by US Federal Drug Administration scientific advisory panel - FDA approval still possible, but unlikely
• Medication problems? - How to find the best solution
• Organic rule-outs - Six top-priority concerns when you’re having a bad day
• SSRI anti-depressants can lead to emotional blunting - Effect seen in healthy subjects after 3 weeks of medication

Psychology and trauma ^{^}

• Childhood influences adulthood - It matters more than you may think
• Complex post-traumatic stress disorder explained - Many experts recognize that complex PTSD is a disorder in its own right
• Memories of trauma are unique because of how brains and bodies respond to threat - A traumatic memory can be nearly impossible to shake
• PTSD in sexual assault victims differs from that in combat veterans - Our picture of PTSD is inaccurate due to an overwhelming focus on PTSD in combat veterans
• Threat detection can be an automatic, unconscious brain activity - Managing this is particularly important in trauma and dissociation disorders
• Trauma- and trauma-related diagnoses - It’s more complex than you might think

Society and trauma ^{^}

• Calling prostitution "Sex work" makes the problem worse - It’s cover-up language
• Children must be protected in their earliest years - Serious mental and physical health risks in later life can be minimized if we do this
• Childhood adversity is a ‘cause of causes’ of adult illnesses and mental health problems - This public health hazard hides in plain sight
• LGBTQ in America? That’s dangerous!- Americans violently abuse LGBTQ people 9 times more often than non-LGBTQ people
• Mental Health and treatment - American views are becoming distinctly more positive
• Parental violence against children has consequences - …And none of them are good
• Physicians urged to check siblings of suspected child abuse victims - Children living in the same home or in contact with the same caretaker are also at risk
• Rape - it’s effectively decriminalized in England and Wales - Why do so many men get away with rape? Police officers, survivors, lawyers and prosecutors on the scandal that shames the justice system
• School shootings: At least 377 have occurred since Columbine - Well over a quarter of a million children have been exposed to this violence since 1999
• Sexual abuse rampant in U.S. federal prisons - Bipartisan federal report finds abuse in the majority of prisons
• Young children who are survivors of sexual abuse are not being heard - The #MeToo movement has not included young sexual abuse victims

To get you thinking… ^{^}

• To get you thinking… - What would it take? Perhaps this…
  • Thinking - about courage, control, and anxiety - Fear need not stop you
  • Thinking - about development of sense of "self", integration, and dissociation - Normal integration of experience into our sense of self can fail, resulting in serious psychological disorders
  • Thinking - about diagnosis and the pursuit of understanding - Diagnosis is the beginning of treatment
  • Thinking - about priorities in responding to trauma memories in psychotherapy
  • Thinking - about self-care - Know yourself - care for yourself
  • Thinking - about trauma and difficulty connecting with others - Chronic childhood trauma makes connections difficult or impossible
  • Thinking - about trauma or neglect in childhood - It creates an unreal, inaccurate sense of self

Guidebook for a good life ^{^}

• Guidebook for a good life - Practical, focused ideas for achieving and maintaining a life that works
  • A simple body-weight workout- Easy to start, easy to stick with
  • Gratitude - getting started on a gratitude practice - Few things you can do will improve your mood more quickly!

Site authors ^{^}

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page author: Tom Cloyd | reviewed 2025-03-06:0827 Pacific Time (USA)