Fawning
Ingrid Clayton
Published 2025
286 pages
The most popular trauma books
Books about trauma follow people living with the aftermath of something terrible. The event may be long past, but it returns in memory, in the body and in relationships. These novels and memoirs are about survival and the slow, uneven work of healing, told with honesty and respect.
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Batman and Psychology A Dark and Stormy Knight
Travis Langley
Published 2012
352 pages
Girl in the Walls
A. J. Gnuse
Published 2021
384 pages
We'll Never be Apart
Emiko Jean
Published 2015
279 pages
Shook One Anxiety Playing Tricks on Me
Charlamagne Tha God
Published 2018
288 pages
The Family Crucible
Augustus Napier, Carl A. Whitaker
1980 · 1984 edition
305 pages
Emotional Inheritance A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma
Galit Atlas
2022 · 2023 edition
288 pages
Late Bloomer
Fern Michaels
2001 · 2023 edition
464 pages
Resilience
Eric Greitens
2015 · 2016 edition
320 pages
The Body Remembers Continuing Education Test
Babette Rothschild
2000 · 2013 edition
208 pages
Childhood Disrupted How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology, and How You Can Heal
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
Published 2015
304 pages
The Reckoning
Mary L. Trump
Published 2021
208 pages
Saving Red
Sonya Sones
Published 2016
448 pages
Fostering Resilient Learners
Pete Hall, Kristin Souers, Kristin Souer
2016 · 2024 edition
188 pages
Invisible Storm
Jason Kander
Published 2022
224 pages
Cutting Understanding and Overcoming Self-mutilation
Steven Levenkron
Published 1998
269 pages
Where There's Hope Healing, Moving Forward, and Never Giving Up
Elizabeth Smart
Published 2018
261 pages
The Emotionally Absent Mother
Jasmin Lee Cori
Published 2010
240 pages
American Daughter
Stephanie Thornton Plymale
2020 · 2021 edition
288 pages
Fear
Jeff Abbott
2006 · 2013 edition
432 pages
The Anatomy of Anxiety
Ellen Vora
2022 · 2025 edition
352 pages
When Panic Attacks The New, Drug-Free Anxiety Therapy That Can Change Your Life
David D. Burns, M.D.
2006 · 2007 edition
464 pages
Where All the Dead Lie
J.T. Ellison, Joyce Bean
2011 · 2021 edition
370 pages
Tiny Traumas When You Don't Know What's Wrong, But Nothing Feels Quite Right
Meg Arroll
Published 2023
301 pages