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Author: Elizabeth G. Vermilyea, MA
Summary:
This book offers practical, easy-to-use tools to help individuals manage traumatic stress and build coping skills. Designed as a self-help toolkit, it emphasizes empowering readers with strategies like grounding, boundary-setting, self-care, and understanding triggers. The book is accessible for trauma survivors and professionals, promoting growth and healing through structured exercises.
Summary:
This book offers practical, easy-to-use tools to help individuals manage traumatic stress and build coping skills. Designed as a self-help toolkit, it emphasizes empowering readers with strategies like grounding, boundary-setting, self-care, and understanding triggers. The book is accessible for trauma survivors and professionals, promoting growth and healing through structured exercises.
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Amazon.com: The Complex PTSD Journal: A Guided Journal to Help You Heal, Grow, and Thrive: 9781638780892: Okosi PsyD, Mercedes J.: Books also on Audble (PREVIEW)
Author: Mercedes J. Okosi, PsyD
Summary:
A guided journal specifically tailored for individuals with Complex PTSD. It provides prompts and exercises that encourage reflection, self-awareness, and emotional processing. With its structured layout, the journal offers a compassionate framework for survivors to track their healing journey, set goals, and cultivate resilience. It is ideal for both independent use and as a supplement to therapy.
Summary:
A guided journal specifically tailored for individuals with Complex PTSD. It provides prompts and exercises that encourage reflection, self-awareness, and emotional processing. With its structured layout, the journal offers a compassionate framework for survivors to track their healing journey, set goals, and cultivate resilience. It is ideal for both independent use and as a supplement to therapy.
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Author: Janina Fisher, PhD
Summary:
This workbook combines psychoeducation with practical exercises to address trauma’s "living legacy" — the persistent emotional, physical, and relational impacts of trauma. Janina Fisher integrates trauma-informed approaches, including somatic and cognitive strategies, to help survivors identify patterns, manage symptoms, and reconnect with their sense of self. It is a resource for both survivors and therapists seeking structured tools for recovery.
Summary:
This workbook combines psychoeducation with practical exercises to address trauma’s "living legacy" — the persistent emotional, physical, and relational impacts of trauma. Janina Fisher integrates trauma-informed approaches, including somatic and cognitive strategies, to help survivors identify patterns, manage symptoms, and reconnect with their sense of self. It is a resource for both survivors and therapists seeking structured tools for recovery.
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Authors: H. Schielke, Bethany L. Brand, Ruth A. Lanius
Summary:
This workbook provides a step-by-step program for trauma survivors, focusing on building stability and safety during recovery. Rooted in research and clinical practice, the "Finding Solid Ground" approach addresses common obstacles like emotional dysregulation, dissociation, and interpersonal challenges. It offers structured exercises, practical tools, and evidence-based strategies to help readers create a strong foundation for healing. Available in print and Kindle formats.
Summary:
This workbook provides a step-by-step program for trauma survivors, focusing on building stability and safety during recovery. Rooted in research and clinical practice, the "Finding Solid Ground" approach addresses common obstacles like emotional dysregulation, dissociation, and interpersonal challenges. It offers structured exercises, practical tools, and evidence-based strategies to help readers create a strong foundation for healing. Available in print and Kindle formats.
Dear Little Ones (Book 1): Hope, Help, and Healing for Your Inner Children
Dear Little Ones book 1 also on Kindle and Audible
Author: Jade Miller 2021
Overview: Aimed at children and inner child parts of adults with DID, this book provides gentle, affirming messages to help explain DID in a compassionate and age-appropriate manner. It fosters a sense of safety and understanding for younger alters, encouraging healing and self-acceptance.
Overview: Aimed at children and inner child parts of adults with DID, this book provides gentle, affirming messages to help explain DID in a compassionate and age-appropriate manner. It fosters a sense of safety and understanding for younger alters, encouraging healing and self-acceptance.
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Authors: J.D. Clark and Megan Starling
Summary:
This book is a child-friendly resource designed to explain Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) in an accessible and compassionate way. Through the metaphor of a patchwork quilt, it illustrates how different parts (alters) come together to form a whole person. The book helps children understand DID, whether they are experiencing it themselves, know someone with it, or are curious about the condition. Gentle and supportive, it aims to reduce fear and stigma while fostering understanding, healing, and a sense of unity.
Summary:
This book is a child-friendly resource designed to explain Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) in an accessible and compassionate way. Through the metaphor of a patchwork quilt, it illustrates how different parts (alters) come together to form a whole person. The book helps children understand DID, whether they are experiencing it themselves, know someone with it, or are curious about the condition. Gentle and supportive, it aims to reduce fear and stigma while fostering understanding, healing, and a sense of unity.
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The Family Inside hardcover
- Author: Doris Bryant and Judy Kessler 1992
- Overview: Written for those with DID and their loved ones, this book offers insights into the experience of living with multiple parts. It includes personal accounts, therapeutic strategies, and practical advice for fostering communication and cooperation among alters.
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(New Horizons in Therapy 2004) by A.T.W. "Got Parts? was written by a survivor of DID in association with her therapist and therapy group. This book is filled with successful coping techniques and strategies to enhance the day-to-day functioning of adult survivors of DID in relationships, work, parenting, self-confidence, and self-care. Got Parts will help you introduce yourself to your internal family and improve its communication, integration, and well-being. Although written to carefully avoid triggering, it delivers well-grounded guidelines for living that DID people need to do on the way to recovery. Coping strategies included help you with issues related to triggers, flashbacks, and body memories. Got Parts also includes a detailed list of outside resources you can draw on. This book is intended to be used in conjunction with a therapist and is not a substitute for therapy."
Switching Time also on Kindle and Audible
Author: Richard Baer 2008
Overview: A true story of a therapist working with a patient with DID. Dr. Baer chronicles his patient Karen’s journey, exploring her traumatic past, the emergence of her alters, and the challenges of therapy. It provides a compelling look at the therapeutic process and the complexity of DID.
"Managing Traumatic Stress Through Art 1995, will inspire survivors to explore the aftermath of traumatic stress as it affects self-image, relationships with others, and functioning in the world. The 26 projects in this book encourage creative growth and help to establish a sense of personal safety, while exploring and honoring feelings of anger, fear, shame, and sadness. The art experiences are broad enough to be of value to survivors of a wide variety of traumatic experiences, ranging from childhood abuse to accidents to disabling mental illness."
"In The Way of the Journal, 1998, therapist and author Kathleen Adams, M.A. teaches her trademark approach to using reflective writing as a therapeutic process. Adams' ten-step "quick and easy" method was created to provide sexual abuse survivors and dissociative clients with ways to maximize structure, balance, and permission while minimizing overstimulation and overwhelming feeling. Developed while working with dissociative disorders patients at a national treatment center, The Way of the Journal can be used by all survivors, as well as anyone in pain who wishes to gain greater self-understanding."
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Looking Through the Eyes of Trauma and Dissociation: An illustrated guide for EMDR therapists and clients: Paulsen Ph.D, Sandra: 9781439213216: Amazon.com: Books
Becoming the One also on Kindle and Audible
- Author: Sheleana Aiyana 2024
- Overview: While not exclusively about dissociation, this book discusses the journey of healing from trauma and reconnecting with the self. It encourages readers to embrace their wholeness and find inner peace through self-love and integration.
Author: Richard Baer 2008
Overview: A true story of a therapist working with a patient with DID. Dr. Baer chronicles his patient Karen’s journey, exploring her traumatic past, the emergence of her alters, and the challenges of therapy. It provides a compelling look at the therapeutic process and the complexity of DID.
The Myth of Sanity also on Kindle and Audible
- Author: Martha Stout 2002
- Overview: This book examines how dissociation manifests in everyday life, not just in individuals with DID. Dr. Stout explores the ways people unconsciously use dissociation to cope with trauma and how it affects their sense of self and relationships.
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STRANGER IN THE MIRROR: Dissociation: The Hidden Epidemic also on Kindle
by Marlene Steinberg, Maxine Schnall 2000.
"This book drags you into it.
I found myself going back to it again and again, I was through the first hundred pages and thought the easy reading and understand of
this book in unbelievable. I didn't think I would be able to read it norless understand it. I had to take that chance and was I shocked when I realized it was on my level. This is a must read book for all.
I found myself all thought this book, and at times we found ourselves.
Thank You so much for this information it has given me a better understanding after years of talking with a therapist on some of the insanity that my life has taken me through."
this book in unbelievable. I didn't think I would be able to read it norless understand it. I had to take that chance and was I shocked when I realized it was on my level. This is a must read book for all.
I found myself all thought this book, and at times we found ourselves.
Thank You so much for this information it has given me a better understanding after years of talking with a therapist on some of the insanity that my life has taken me through."
by Tracy, Ph.D. Alderman, Karen Marshall LCSW, 1998,
"We had read everything we could get our hands on about MPD, hoping to find something we could use both as a therapeutic source for ourselves and a resource to share with important people in our life. This book not only does just that, but most importantly, it consistantly exudes respect for the multiple as a whole as well as for each alter. Rosalee, one of the alters of one of the authors, describes various facets of living with MPD with honesty and candor. We feel that this book
should be distributed like World War Two propaganda: out of low-flying airplanes, to the masses."
"We had read everything we could get our hands on about MPD, hoping to find something we could use both as a therapeutic source for ourselves and a resource to share with important people in our life. This book not only does just that, but most importantly, it consistantly exudes respect for the multiple as a whole as well as for each alter. Rosalee, one of the alters of one of the authors, describes various facets of living with MPD with honesty and candor. We feel that this book
should be distributed like World War Two propaganda: out of low-flying airplanes, to the masses."
"In The Way of the Journal, 1998, therapist and author Kathleen Adams, M.A. teaches her trademark approach to using reflective writing as a therapeutic process. Adams' ten-step "quick and easy" method was created to provide sexual abuse survivors and dissociative clients with ways to maximize structure, balance, and permission while minimizing overstimulation and overwhelming feeling. Developed while working with dissociative disorders patients at a national treatment center, The Way of the Journal can be used by all survivors, as well as anyone in pain who wishes to gain greater self-understanding."
Becoming Yourself: Overcoming Mind Fragmentation in Trauma Survivors
- Author: Dr. Janina Fisher
- Overview: This book explores mind fragmentation and dissociation as responses to trauma. Dr. Fisher presents practical techniques rooted in neuroscience and trauma therapy, emphasizing the integration of fragmented parts into a cohesive sense of self. Strategies include somatic awareness, mindfulness, and internal dialogue to foster healing and self-compassion.
Overcoming Depersonalization and Feelings of Unreality
- Author: Fugen Neziroglu and Katharine Donnelly
- Overview: A guide for those struggling with depersonalization and derealization, this book combines psychoeducation with cognitive-behavioral strategies to address symptoms of disconnection from reality. It provides exercises to ground oneself, address underlying anxiety or trauma, and develop a greater sense of self-awareness and presence.
A Logical Way of Being
- Author: Melanie Goodwin
- Overview: This book is a self-help guide written for individuals with DID. Melanie Goodwin uses clear language and logical frameworks to demystify dissociation and provide actionable advice for understanding and working with parts. The book offers tools for communication, cooperation, and internal harmony between alters.
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