Trauma and Abuse Reading List
1. 
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma 4.36 avg rating — 255,294 ratings
3. 
Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
by:
Lundy Bancroft
4.48 avg rating — 16,875 ratings 4. 
Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life
by:
Susan Forward
4.16 avg rating — 15,954 ratings 
6. 
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents 4.37 avg rating — 80,476 ratings
7. 
Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology, and How You Can Heal 4.27 avg rating — 2,939 ratings
8. 
The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
by:
Gavin de Becker
4.18 avg rating — 49,301 ratings 9. 
Will I Ever Be Good Enough? Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers
by:
Karyl McBride
4.20 avg rating — 11,232 ratings 
11. 
Healing Developmental Trauma: How Early Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image, and the Capacity for Relationship
by:
Laurence Heller
4.26 avg rating — 1,556 ratings 11. 
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror 4.39 avg rating — 15,057 ratings
13. 
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
by:
Pema Chödrön
4.27 avg rating — 61,849 ratings 14. 
The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognize It and How to Respond
by:
Patricia Evans
4.25 avg rating — 4,832 ratings 15. 
The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
by:
Ellen Bass
4.21 avg rating — 8,236 ratings 16. 
The Courage to Heal Workbook: A Guide for Women and Men Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
by:
Laura Davis
4.27 avg rating — 2,219 ratings 17. 
The Emotionally Absent Mother: A Guide to Self-Healing and Getting the Love You Missed
by:
Jasmin Lee Cori
4.18 avg rating — 3,649 ratings 
19. 
Should I Stay or Should I Go?: A Guide to Working Out Whether Your Relationship Can--and Should--be Saved
by:
Lundy Bancroft
4.30 avg rating — 686 ratings 
21. 
It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
by:
Mark Wolynn
3.55 avg rating — 34,991 ratings 
23. 
Man's Search for Meaning : An Introduction to Logotherapy
by:
Viktor E. Frankl
4.37 avg rating — 832,692 ratings 24. 
Outgrowing the Pain: A Book for and About Adults Abused As Children
by:
Eliana Gil
3.94 avg rating — 360 ratings 25. 
Adult Children of Abusive Parents: A Healing Program for Those Who Have Been Physically, Sexually, or Emotionally Abused
by:
Steven D. Farmer
4.05 avg rating — 218 ratings 26. 
The Emotional Incest Syndrome: What to do When a Parent's Love Rules Your Life
by:
Patricia Love
4.19 avg rating — 521 ratings 27. 
Healing Your Emotional Self: A Powerful Program to Help You Raise Your Self-Esteem, Quiet Your Inner Critic, and Overcome Your Shame
by:
Beverly Engel
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,162 ratings 28. 
The Gaslight Effect: How to Spot and Survive the Hidden Manipulation Others Use to Control Your Life
by:
Robin Stern
3.86 avg rating — 2,188 ratings 29. 
If You Had Controlling Parents: How to Make Peace with Your Past and Take Your Place in the World
by:
Dan Neuharth
4.02 avg rating — 394 ratings 
30. 
The Fear of Doing Nothing: Notes of a Young Therapist
by:
Valery Hazanov
4.43 avg rating — 183 ratings 30. 
Broken and alone... right?: I think we should talk...
by:
Hayden Nekara
4.70 avg rating — 10 ratings 
35. 
Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect
by:
Jonice Webb
4.19 avg rating — 10,558 ratings 36. 
No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us 4.50 avg rating — 8,103 ratings
38. 
Self-Care for Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: Honor Your Emotions, Nurture Your Self & Live with Confidence 3.79 avg rating — 3,578 ratings
39. 
To the Survivors: One Man's Journey as a Rape Crisis Counselor with True Stories of Sexual Violence
by:
Robert Uttaro
4.03 avg rating — 184 ratings 40. 
Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists 4.33 avg rating — 759 ratings
40. 
The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal
by:
Mary L. Trump
4.10 avg rating — 3,502 ratings 42. 
The Batterer as Parent: Addressing the Impact of Domestic Violence on Family Dynamics 4.43 avg rating — 157 ratings
42. 
The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal
by:
Mary L. Trump
4.10 avg rating — 3,502 ratings 44. 
Take Back Your Life: Recovering From Cults & Abusive Relationships
by:
Janja Lalich
4.38 avg rating — 199 ratings 45. 
When Dad Hurts Mom: Helping Your Children Heal the Wounds of Witnessing Abuse
by:
Lundy Bancroft
4.57 avg rating — 336 ratings 46. 
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
by:
Miguel Ruiz
4.19 avg rating — 489,782 ratings 47. 
Women with Attention Deficit Disorder: Embrace Your Differences and Transform Your Life
by:
Sari Solden
4.21 avg rating — 1,917 ratings 
50. 
The Truth Book: Escaping a Childhood of Abuse Among Jehovah's Witnesses
by:
Joy Castro
4.11 avg rating — 290 ratings 51. 
Victims No Longer: The Classic Guide for Men Recovering from Sexual Child Abuse
by:
Mike Lew
4.36 avg rating — 258 ratings 51. 
Amongst Ourselves: A Self-Help Guide to Living with Dissociative Identity Disorder
by:
Tracy Alderman
4.03 avg rating — 150 ratings 
54. 
Sibling Abuse Trauma: Assessment and Intervention Strategies for Children, Families, and Adults
by:
John V. Caffaro
4.30 avg rating — 20 ratings 55. 
Silently Seduced: When Parents Make Their Children Partners : Understanding Covert Incest
by:
Kenneth M. Adams
4.19 avg rating — 866 ratings 56. 
Allies in Healing: When the Person You Love Was Sexually Abused as a Child
by:
Laura Davis
4.13 avg rating — 432 ratings 57. 
Repressed Memories: A Journey to Recovery from Sexual Abuse (Fireside Parkside Books) 3.90 avg rating — 90 ratings
58. 
Children of the Self-Absorbed: A Grown-Up's Guide to Getting over Narcissistic Parents
by:
Nina W. Brown
3.92 avg rating — 1,639 ratings 59. 
I Never Told Anyone: Writings by Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
by:
Ellen Bass
4.09 avg rating — 261 ratings 
61. 
The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment 4.28 avg rating — 2,389 ratings
61. 
My Silence is Broken: A workbook for survivors of Sexual Abuse and Rape
by:
Gary Sellors
4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings 61. 
Shadows Among Us: Recognizing and Breaking the Cycle of Narcissistic Control
by:
L S Corbin
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
61. 
You Empowered: Get Beyond The Trauma You've Experienced To Live A Full And Happy Life
by:
Anna Saviano
4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings 61. 
The Wizard of Oz and Other Narcissists: Coping with the One-Way Relationship in Work, Love, and Family 4.17 avg rating — 1,847 ratings
61. 
Healing the Wounds of Sexual Abuse: Reading the Bible with Survivors
by:
Elaine A. Heath
4.13 avg rating — 31 ratings 
61. 
The Great Endurance: My Journey. My Truth. My Life.
by:
Maurice Mitchell
4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings 
61. 
Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents: Practical Tools to Establish Boundaries & Reclaim Your Emotional Autonomy 4.40 avg rating — 4,896 ratings
61. 
Goodbye to Lovely: The harrowing true story of a woman’s struggle with urban poverty, domestic violence and addiction
by:
Buck Starmer
3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings 61. 
The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition 4.44 avg rating — 381 ratings
61. 
The Mother Next Door: Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy
by:
Andrea Dunlop
4.15 avg rating — 4,489 ratings 
88. 
You Untangled: A DBT Skills Workbook, Practical Tools To Manage Your Emotions And Improve Your Life
by:
Amy Tibbitts
4.08 avg rating — 24 ratings 88. 
Discovering The Healthy Self and Meaningful Resistance to Toxic Narcissism 4.29 avg rating — 21 ratings
88. 
After Awareness: Advocating For Battered Women
by:
Jenna Brooks
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings 
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What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
by:
Stephanie Foo
4.50 avg rating — 67,920 ratings 96. 
The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal
by:
Mary L. Trump
4.10 avg rating — 3,502 ratings 
96. 
The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity 4.43 avg rating — 10,880 ratings