About PTSD: Some Sources

In a month or so, I’ll be teaching students in my English 1A courses about medical humanities and sharing my blog with them. Then in my colleague Dylan Eret’s Humanities class, I’ll lead a writing exercise about scars and discuss my experience of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD. At classes and presentations, I give out a list of resources that I’ve compiled. In thinking about all this, I realize that I’ve never shared this list on my blog. I’ve mentioned many of these sources in my previous posts but thought it might be a good idea to present them all to you in one place. So here goes:

Some Print and Web Resources about PTSD

Bass, Ellen, and Laura Davis. The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, 3^rd Ed. New York: Collins Living, 2008. Print.

Hay, Louise. You Can Heal Your Life. Hay House Books. Print.

Levine, Peter, and Ann Frederick. Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 1997. Print.

Murray, Bob. “PTSD and Childhood Trauma.” Uplift Program. Web. 20 Apr. 2010. <www.upliftprogram.com/article_ptsd.html>.

Nesaule, Agate. A Woman in Amber. New York: Penguin Books, 1995. Print.

Perry, Bruce D., and Maia Szalavitz. The Boy Who was Raised as a Dog and Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist’s Notebook: What         Traumatized Children Can Teach Us about Loss, Love, and Healing. New York: Basic Books, 2006. Print.

Rogers, Annie G. A Shining Affliction: A Story of Harm and Healing in Psychotherapy. New York: Penguin Books, 1995. Print.

Terr, Lenore. Too Scared to Cry: How Trauma Affects Children…and Ultimately Us All. New York: Basic Books, 1990. Print.

Bodywork Resource

Middendorf Institute for Breath Experience. 801 Camelia Street, Suite C, Berkeley, CA 94710. Jeurg Roffler. 510-981-1710. <www.breathexperience.com>