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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 579 times as therapy)
avg rating 4.35 — 278,497 ratings — published 2014
The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients (Paperback)
by (shelved 371 times as therapy)
avg rating 4.32 — 29,015 ratings — published 2001
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 340 times as therapy)
avg rating 4.37 — 403,142 ratings — published 2019
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents (Paperback)
by (shelved 320 times as therapy)
avg rating 4.36 — 90,247 ratings — published 2015
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model (Paperback)
by (shelved 312 times as therapy)
avg rating 4.11 — 19,417 ratings — published 2021
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 225 times as therapy)
avg rating 4.13 — 121,615 ratings — published 2010
On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy (Paperback)
by (shelved 189 times as therapy)
avg rating 4.16 — 18,616 ratings — published 1961
Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy (Paperback)
by (shelved 179 times as therapy)
avg rating 4.25 — 41,440 ratings — published 1989
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 177 times as therapy)
avg rating 4.54 — 13,766 ratings — published 2013
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as therapy)
avg rating 4.37 — 873,993 ratings — published 1946
What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 174 times as therapy)
avg rating 4.42 — 108,150 ratings — published 2021
What My Bones Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 164 times as therapy)
avg rating 4.50 — 75,288 ratings — published 2022
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as therapy)
avg rating 4.40 — 15,586 ratings — published 1992
It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 158 times as therapy)
avg rating 3.55 — 38,137 ratings — published 2016
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as therapy)
avg rating 4.06 — 10,212 ratings — published 1997
The Gifts of Imperfection (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as therapy)
avg rating 4.25 — 221,619 ratings — published 2010
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as therapy)
avg rating 4.30 — 35,335 ratings — published 2022
Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself (ebook)
by (shelved 122 times as therapy)
avg rating 4.25 — 37,146 ratings — published 2021
Hold Me Tight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as therapy)
avg rating 4.12 — 22,379 ratings — published 2008
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as therapy)
avg rating 4.29 — 242,309 ratings — published 2012
The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: A Guide to ACT (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as therapy)
avg rating 4.14 — 20,619 ratings — published 2007
Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as therapy)
avg rating 4.12 — 49,657 ratings — published 1986
Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as therapy)
avg rating 4.45 — 63,715 ratings — published 2020
The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as therapy)
avg rating 4.05 — 30,461 ratings — published 1979
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as therapy)
avg rating 4.58 — 41,471 ratings — published 2007
When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as therapy)
avg rating 4.18 — 34,583 ratings — published 2003
Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as therapy)
avg rating 4.28 — 85,735 ratings — published 2015
On Being a Therapist (JOSSEY BASS SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE SERIES)
by (shelved 98 times as therapy)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,974 ratings — published 1986
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as therapy)
avg rating 3.92 — 64,753 ratings — published 2019
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as therapy)
avg rating 4.26 — 35,286 ratings — published 1999
How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self (ebook)
by (shelved 91 times as therapy)
avg rating 4.13 — 34,348 ratings — published 2021
Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as therapy)
avg rating 4.13 — 26,139 ratings — published 2011
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as therapy)
avg rating 4.38 — 11,645 ratings — published 2017
Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as therapy)
avg rating 4.17 — 49,409 ratings — published 2006
The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as therapy)
avg rating 4.20 — 9,489 ratings — published 1967
Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as therapy)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,645 ratings — published 2016
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as therapy)
avg rating 4.48 — 23,666 ratings — published 2007
Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as therapy)
avg rating 4.06 — 34,063 ratings — published 1980
Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as therapy)
avg rating 4.35 — 16,053 ratings — published 2020
Letters to a Young Therapist (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as therapy)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,444 ratings — published 2003
Existential Psychotherapy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as therapy)
avg rating 4.46 — 7,225 ratings — published 1980
Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as therapy)
avg rating 4.28 — 7,142 ratings — published 2007
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 77 times as therapy)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,287,573 ratings — published 2018
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as therapy)
avg rating 4.32 — 96,585 ratings — published 2021
Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as therapy)
avg rating 3.80 — 56,811 ratings — published 2020
Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People for Change (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as therapy)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,177 ratings — published 1991
Internal Family Systems Therapy (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as therapy)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,533 ratings — published 1994
Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as therapy)
avg rating 4.15 — 35,509 ratings — published 2000
The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as therapy)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,774 ratings — published 2018
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as therapy)
avg rating 4.33 — 49,082 ratings — published 1999
“After a while Mary said, “Zsadist?”
“Yeah?”
“What are those markings?”
His frowned and flicked his eyes over to her, thinking, as if she didn’t know? But then . . . well, she had been a human. Maybe she didn’t. “They’re slave bands. I was . . . a slave.”
“Did it hurt when they were put on you?”
“Yes.”
“Did the same person who cut your face give them to you?”
“No, my owner’s hellren did that. My owner . . . she put the bands on me. He was the one who cut my face.”
“How long were you a slave?”
“A hundred years.”
“How did you get free?”
“Phury. Phury got me out. That’s how he lost his leg.”
“Were you hurt while you were a slave?”
Z swallowed hard. “Yes.”
“Do you still think about it?”
“Yes.” He looked down at his hands, which suddenly were in pain for some reason. Oh, right. He’d made two
fists and was squeezing them so tightly his fingers were about to snap off at the knuckles.
“Does slavery still happen?”
“No. Wrath outlawed it. As a mating gift to me and Bella.”
“What kind of slave were you?”
Zsadist shut his eyes. Ah, yes, the question he didn’t want to answer. For a while it was all he could do to force himself to stay in the chair. But then, in a falsely level voice, he said,
“I was a blood slave. I was used by a female for blood.”
The quiet after he spoke bore down on him, a tangible weight.
“Zsadist? Can I put my hand on your back?”
His head did something that was evidently a nod, because Mary’s gentle palm came down lightly on his
shoulder blade. She moved it in a slow, easy circle.
“Those are the right answers,” she said. “All of them.”
He had to blink fast as the fire in the furnace’s window became blurry. “You think?” he said hoarsely.
“No. I know.”
― Father Mine
“Yeah?”
“What are those markings?”
His frowned and flicked his eyes over to her, thinking, as if she didn’t know? But then . . . well, she had been a human. Maybe she didn’t. “They’re slave bands. I was . . . a slave.”
“Did it hurt when they were put on you?”
“Yes.”
“Did the same person who cut your face give them to you?”
“No, my owner’s hellren did that. My owner . . . she put the bands on me. He was the one who cut my face.”
“How long were you a slave?”
“A hundred years.”
“How did you get free?”
“Phury. Phury got me out. That’s how he lost his leg.”
“Were you hurt while you were a slave?”
Z swallowed hard. “Yes.”
“Do you still think about it?”
“Yes.” He looked down at his hands, which suddenly were in pain for some reason. Oh, right. He’d made two
fists and was squeezing them so tightly his fingers were about to snap off at the knuckles.
“Does slavery still happen?”
“No. Wrath outlawed it. As a mating gift to me and Bella.”
“What kind of slave were you?”
Zsadist shut his eyes. Ah, yes, the question he didn’t want to answer. For a while it was all he could do to force himself to stay in the chair. But then, in a falsely level voice, he said,
“I was a blood slave. I was used by a female for blood.”
The quiet after he spoke bore down on him, a tangible weight.
“Zsadist? Can I put my hand on your back?”
His head did something that was evidently a nod, because Mary’s gentle palm came down lightly on his
shoulder blade. She moved it in a slow, easy circle.
“Those are the right answers,” she said. “All of them.”
He had to blink fast as the fire in the furnace’s window became blurry. “You think?” he said hoarsely.
“No. I know.”
― Father Mine
“Everyone may agree upon the diagnosis, but not everyone may consent to the therapy. Indeed, for healing, things have to be sacrificed at times and separation or loss might always be heartbreak and leave scars of remorse or regret. (“Sorrow”)”
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