This is a pretty good list of books that may be helpful for partners, parents, and even children with parents dealing with trauma. Take a look, and if you’ve read any of the books on the list, and want to recommend it, feel free to leave a review here!
http://traumadissociation.com/books-partners-family-ptsd-dissociative-abuse.html
On The Mind: How Trauma Changes You
What It Really Feels Like to Dissociate — And How To Feel Better
Why Change Is Hard Even When We Know It’s Needed
Action on childhood trauma ‘could help solve drug death crisis’
That feeling you can’t name? It’s called emotional exhaustion
The Eraser: Confronting childhood trauma through art and photography
I know I haven’t been writing much this month, it’s been a very, very busy month! However, if you’re looking for some good stuff from other survivors, there’s no better place to start than this month’s edition of the Blog Carnival Against Child Abuse! Check it out, and consider submitting your own posts in future…
I especially identified with the section on maladaptive schemas that may have developed during childhood because I’ve always been a big believer that children growing up in abusive situations will develop whatever mechanism they need to survive and then carry those same mechanisms into adulthood instead of learning the things they should learn as kids.
That’s a maladaptive schema if there ever was one.
Read, and learn more below:
The article below is about Restorative Justice, and idea that has become popular in some instances, because as much as we may not like it, this is true: “Some of the problems with the criminal justice system can, and should, be addressed through reform. Other problems may be unavoidable in an adversarial system.” I have…
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