The Best Books About Trauma & Healing

You’ll find here some of the greatest thinkers on trauma in all its various forms (lower-case trauma, PTSD, collective trauma) and a wide-range of texts, including those that are a bit more academic (Peter Levine) to handbooks (Transforming Trauma by James Gordon). I’ve done TONS of interviews with trauma therapists over the past, including Galit Atlas on Pulling the Thread, as well as Terry Real—while he is not solely focused on trauma, his practice touches on lowercase trauma and the way it manifests in men.

Please, as always, drop recommendations in the comments, I am always all ears for more books to read. The link below will take you to a shelf I curated on Bookshop with my picks—I earn an affiliate commission there, but it is ALWAYS MY PREFERENCE that you shop at and support your local bookseller, so no pressure to buy via Bookshop. This is the easiest way for me to organize and keep picks updated. Happy reading!