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We thought it might be helpful to put together a list of books that apply to survivors and related issues.  The following is the beginning of that endeavour and is by no means, inclusive. However, if you know of a book that has been particularly helpful, and you feel should be included, perhaps you could post it to the forums for inclusion at a later date.

If you would like to know more about any listed book, you can copy and paste the title and author in the Amazon link provided on this page.

The Treehouse cannot make claims as to the quality or usefulness of any one book, as that is both a personal assessment as individual as people and their needs. 

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Alcohol and Addictions

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Borderline Personality Disorder

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Child Abuse

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Depression

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Dissociative Identity Disorder

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Domestic Violence

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Eating Disorders

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EMDR

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Emotional Abuse

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Friends, Family and Partners

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General

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Grief and Loss

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Incest

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Male Survivors

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PTSD

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Religions

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Repression

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Self Injury

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Sibling Abuse

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Sexual Abuse

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Therapy

Alcohol or addiction                                                                           Search Amazon        ^Top

You Mean I Don't Have to Feel This Way?: New Help for Depression, Anxiety, and Addiction by Colette Dowling

Recovering from Sexual Abuse, Addictions, and Compulsive Behaviors by Sandy Knauer

Stop Treating Symptoms And Start Resolving Trauma!: Inside-out Healing For Survivors Of All Types by Denice Adcock Colson

Trauma and Addiction: Ending the Cycle of Pain Through Emotional Literacy by Tian Dayton

Treating Addicted Survivors of Trauma by Katie Evans and J. Michael Sullivan

Borderline Personality Disorder                                                          Search Amazon        ^Top

Female Survivors of Sexual Abuse by C. Baker

Hypnosis, Dissociation and Survivors of Child Abuse: Understanding and Treatment by Marcia Degun-Mather

Psychological Trauma And Adult Survivor Theory by Lisa Mccann

Trauma reenactment: rethinking borderline personality disorder when diagnosing sexual abuse survivors.: An article from: Journal of Mental Health Counseling, (Digital) by Robyn L. Trippany, Heather M. Helm and Laura Simpson

Child Abuse                                                                                                           Search Amazon        ^Top

ACT It Out: 25 Expressive Ways to Heal from Childhood Abuse by Stefanie Auerbach Stolinsky

The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting by Alice Miller

Adult Children of Abusive Parents: A healing program for those who have been physically, sexually or emotionally abused, by Steven Farmer

Child Abuse (2ND 99 Edition) by David A. Wolfe

Childhood Interrupted Growing Up Under T by Kathleen Omalley

Children, Child Abuse & Child Protection Placing Children Centrally by The Violence Against Children Study Group

Finding Courage to Speak: Women's Survival of Child Abuse- Alisen, Paige

From Victim to Survivor: Women Survivors of Female Perpetrators by Juliann Mitchell

Growing Up a Shadow: Abuse Recovery by Lois M. Gentry    

Healing Hidden Memories: Recovery for adult survivors of childhood abuse, by Mary Jane Williams

Life After the Pain by Jenaette L. Primeaux

Outgrowing the Pain: A Book for and about Adults Abused as Children by Eliana Gil

Questions of an Abused Child: And the Answers by Ivan D. Muise Sr

Stolen Innocence: Triumphing Over a Childhood Broken by Abuse: A Memoir by Erin Merryn                       ^Top

A Teenager's Journey: Overcoming a Childhood of Abuse by Richard Pelzer

Waking the Tiger by Peter A. Levine

The World Is Full of Laughter  by Dolly Sen

Your Life Is What Your Parents Made It. How to Make It Yours: The Child Abuse Recovery Workbook by Robert Hoc

Depression                                                                                       Search Amazon        ^Top

Coping with Anxiety and Depression (Overcoming Common Problems) By: Shirley Trickett

Depression: Causes and Treatment (Paperback) by Aaron T Beck

The Freedom From Depression Workbook by Frank Minirth, MD

Second-Hand Abuse: The Power and Control Personality: (And Their Victims) by S. F. Bellsmith

Self-Coaching: How to Heal Anxiety and Depression (Paperback) by Joseph J. Ph.D. Luciani

Undoing Depression: What Therapy Doesn't Teach You and Medication Can't Give You by Richard O'Connor, Phd

An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison

Dissociative Identity Disorder                                                             Search Amazon        ^Top

Amongst Ourselves: A Self-Help Guide to Living With Dissociative Identity Disorder by Tracy, Ph.D. Alderman and Karen Marshall

Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity: Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder  by V. Sinason

Becoming One: A Story of Triumph Over Multiple Personality Disorder by  Sarah E. Olson

Clinical Perspectives on Multiple Personality Disorder by Richard P. Kluft  Catherine G., Ph.D. Fine

Diagnosis and Treatment of Multiple Personality Disorder  by Frank W. Putnam

Dissociative Identity Disorder: Diagnosis, Clinical Features, and Treatment of Multiple Personality by Colin A. Ross

Dissociative Identity Disorder Sourcebook, The  by Deborah Bray Haddock

Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality  Joan Frances Casey and Lynn Wilson

Fractured Mind, A: My Life with Multiple Personality Disorder  by Robert B. Oxnam

God Called Father, A: One Woman's Recovery from Incest and Multiple Personality Disorder  by Judith Machree

Got Parts? An Insider's Guide to Managing Life Successfully with Dissociative Identity Disorder by  A. T. W.

Multiple Personality Disorder from the Inside Out by  W. Giller and Barry M. Cohen

The Stranger In The Mirror by  Marlene Steinberg and Maxine Schnall

Domestic Violence                                                                             Search Amazon        ^Top

Angry Men & Women Who Love Them Rev Edition by Paul Hegstrom

A Battered Woman's Guide to Victorious Living by Janella Purvis

The Betrayal Bond by Patrick J Carnes

Beyond the Mirror: Reflections of a Battered Woman by Fallon Willow Coe

Bullies (02 Edition) by Jane Middelton Moz and Mary Lee Zawadski

Ditch That Jerk: Dealing with Men Who Control and Abuse Women by Pamela Jayne

Dragon slippers: This Is What an Abusive Relationship Looks Like by Rosalind B Penfold

The Emotionally Abusive Relationship: How To Stop Being Abused and How To Stop Abusing by Beverly Enge

Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing the Roots of Violence by Robin Karr Morse

Finding Your Way Through Domestic Abuse: A Guide to Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Healing (Finding Your Way Finding Your Way) by Connie Fourre

From Child Sexual Abuse to Adult Sexual Risk: Trauma, Revictimization, and Intervention by Linda J. Koenig

Getting Free 4TH Edition by Ginny Nicarthy

The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence by Gavin De Becker

How to Spot a Dangerous Man Before You Get Involved by Sandra L. Brown

Identifying Child Molesters: Preventing Child Sexual Abuse by Recognizing the Patterns of the Offenders by Carla Van Dam

Next Time, She'll Be Dead: Battering & How to Stop It by Ann Jones

Preventing Violence in Relationships: A Program for Men Who Feel They Have a Problem with Their Use of Controlling and Violent Behaviour by Gerry Heery

When Dad Hurts Mom: Helping Your Children Heal the Wounds of Witnessing Abuse by Lundy Bancroft

Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men by Lundy Bancroft

Eating Disorders                                                                               Search Amazon        ^Top

Eating Disorders and Obesity, Second Edition: A Comprehensive Handbook by Christopher G. Fairburn

Eating Disorder Sourcebook, The : A Comprehensive Guide to the Causes, Treatments, and Prevention of Eating Disorders by Carolyn Costin

Handbook of Treatment for Eating Disorders: Second Edition by David M. Garner

Secret Language of Eating Disorders, The: How You Can Understand and Work to Cure Anorexia and Bulimia by  Peggy Claude-Pierre

Surviving an Eating Disorder by Michelle Siegel

EMDR                                                                                             Search Amazon        ^Top

Transforming Trauma: Emdr: The Revolutionary New Therapy for Freeing the Mind, Clearing the Body, and Opening the Heart by Laurel Parnell

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Second Edition: Basic Principles, Protocols, and Procedures (Hardcover) by Francine Shapiro

EMDR Solutions: Pathways to Healing (Hardcover) by Robin Shapiro

Small Wonders: Healing Childhood Trauma with EMDR (Hardcover) by Joan Lovett (M.D.)

EMDR in the Treatment of Adults Abused As Children (Hardcover) by Laurel, Ph.D. Parnell, Laura Parnell
 

Soul Murder: The effects of childhood abuse & deprivation, by Leonard Shengold

Emotional Abuse

Encouragements for the Emotionally Abused Woman: Wisdom and Hope for Women At Any Stage of Emotional Abuse Recovery (Paperback) by Beverly Mfcc Engel

Emotional Abuse of the Child by Dorothy L. Renn

Healing the Scars of Emotional Abuse Gregory Jantz

Splintered Emotions: Aftermath of Child Abuse by Trena Cole

The Mother I Carry: A Memoir of Healing from Emotional Abuse by Louise M. Wisechild

Scapegoating in Families: Intergenerational Patterns of Physical and Emotional Abuse by Vimala Pillari

Friends, Family and Partners of Survivors                                           Search Amazon        ^Top

Allies in Healing: When the Person You Love Was Sexually Abused as a Child by Laura Davis

Daddy Can't Hurt Me Anymore by Darryl J. Bogatay

Families in Recovery by Beverly Engel

Ghosts in the Bedroom by Ken Graber

Helping Her Get Free: A Guide for Families and Friends of Abused Women by Susan Brewster

How Long Does It Hurt?: A Guide to Recovering from Incest and Sexual Abuse for Teenagers, Their Friends, and Their Families by Cynthia L. Mather

I Will Survive: The African-American Guide to Healing from Sexual Assault and Abuse by Lori Robinson

The Kiss by Kathryn Harrison

Survivors and Partners: Healing the Relationships of Sexual Abuse Survivors by Paul A. Hansen

Survivors Guide to Sex: How to Have an Empowered Sex Life After Child Sexual Abuse by Stacie Haines

We Are Not Alone: A Guidebook for Helping Professionals and Parents Supporting Adolescent Victims of Sexual Abuse by Jade C. Angelica

What About Me? A Guide for Men Helping Female Partners Deal with Childhood Sexual Abuse by Grant Cameron

What Only a Mother Can Tell You about Child Sexual Abuse by Karen Schaefer

General                                                                                           Search Amazon        ^Top

Emerging, Rising, and Soaring: The Progression of the Victim to Survivor to Overcomer and Conqueror of Abuse by Esther Lee

The Emotionally Abused Woman: Overcoming Destructive Patterns and Reclaiming Yourself by Beverly Engel

Life as Prey by Cheryl L. Smith

The Survivor's Guide by Sharice A. Lee

Trauma and Recovery By Judith Herman (Basic Books, 1997)

Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognize It & How to Respond by Patricia Evans

Grief & Loss                                                                                    Search Amazon        ^Top  

Surviving the Death of a Sibling: Living Through Grief When an Adult Brother or Sister Dies by T J Wray

On Love Alone: Words to Heal the Heart on the Death of a Father by Jonathon Lazear

In the Letting Go: Words to Heal the Heart on the Death of a Mother by Jonathon Lazear

Incest

Betrayal of Innocence: Incest and Its Devastation; Revised Edition, by Susan Craig

Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You, by Sue William Silverman

Harmed by Night - Healed by Light by Julia Carrol

Healing the Incest Wound: Adult Survivors in Therapy, by Christine A. Courtois

I Never Told Anyone: Writings by Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, by Ellen Bass

It Happened to Me: A Teen's Guide to Overcoming Sexual Abuse by William Lee Carter

Other Side of the Family: A book for recovery from abuse, incest & neglect by Ellen F Ratner

Reclaiming Our Lives: Hopes for adult survivors of incest by Carol Poston

Secret Survivors: Uncovering Incest and Its Aftereffects in Women by E Sue Blume

Silently Seduced: When Parents Make their Children Partners - Understanding Covert Incest, Kenneth Adams

The Ultimate Betrayal: The Enabling Mother, Incest and Sexual Abuse by Audrey Ricker

Male Survivors                                                

Abused Boys: The Neglected Victims of Sexual Abuse, Mic Hunter

Back on Track: Boys Dealing With Sexual Abuse by Leslie Bailey Wright and Mindy B. Loiselle

Betrayed as Boys: Psychodynamic Treatment of Sexually Abused Men, by  Richard B. Gartner

Beyond Betrayal: Taking Charge of Your Life after Boyhood Sexual Abuse by Richard B. Gartner

Bobby and His Cat: A Story about Abuse, Courage and Wisdom for Survivors, Friends and Therapists by Rob Weinstein

Broken Boys / Mending Men: Recovery from Childhood Sexual Abuse by Stephen D. Grubman

Don't Tell: The Sexual Abuse of Boys by Michel Dorais

Leaping Upon the Mountains: Men Proclaiming Victory Over Sexual Child Abuse by Mike Lew

The Me Nobody Knows, The: A Guide for Teen Survivors  by Barbara Bean and Shari Bennett

Victims No Longer a book for male survivors of child sexual abuse and incest by Mic Hunter

Wounded Boys Heroic Men: A Man's Guide to Recovering from Child Abuse, by Daniel Jay Sonkin

PTSD

Coping with Post-Trauma Stress by Frank Parkinson

Coping with Trauma: A Guide to Self-Understanding by Jon Allen

I Can't Get Over It: A Handbook for Trauma Survivors by Aphrodite Matsakis

The PTSD Workbook: Simple, Effective Techniques for Overcoming Traumatic Stress Symptoms by Mary Beth William and Soili Poijula

Soul Murder: The Effects of Childhood Abuse and Deprivation by Leonard Shengold

Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman

Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society by Bessel A. Van Der Kolk, Alexander C. McFarlane, and Lars Weisaeth

Religions                                                                                         Search Amazon        ^Top

Beneath Wings of an Angel: Healing the Child Within a Spiritual Healing Journey to Recovery from Domestic Violence by Janice Romney Farnsworth

Creating Safe and Sacred Places: Identifying, Preventing, and Healing Sexual Abuse by Gerard J Mcglone

God Loves Abused Women Too: Strategies to Help Break the Cycle of Abuse by Dr Norma Barnett

Heal & Forgive: Forgiveness in the Face of Abuse by Nancy Richards

"Redeeming Love" by Francine RIvers

Refuge from Abuse: Healing and Hope for Abused Christian Women by Nancy Nason-clark

Set Free: God's Healing Power for Abuse Survivors and Those Who Love Them by Jan Coates

Shine the Light: Sexual Abuse and Healing in the Jewish Community by Rachel Lev

Sins of a Father: Forgiving the Unforgivable by Kitty Chappell

Survivor Prayers: Talking with God about Childhood Sexual Abuse by Catherine Foote

The Uncaged Project: Soul Strategies to Rise Above a Wounded Childhood by Sallie Culbreth

Repression

Memory and Abuse by Charles Whitfield

Repressed Memories: A journey of recovery from sexual abuse by Renee Fredrickson, PH.D

Repressed Memories: Can You trust them? Arlys Norcross McDonald

Self injury                                                                                       Search Amazon        ^Top

Beyond The Razor's Edge: Journey of Healing and Hope Beyond Self Injury (Paperback) by Judy Redheffer, Sarah J Brecht

Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation by Steven Levenkron

Healing the Hurt Within: Understand Self-Injury and Self-Harm, and Heal the Emotional Wounds by Jan Sutton

Secret Scars: Uncovering and Understanding the Addiction of Self-Injury (Paperback) by V.J. Truner

Self-Injury: When Pain Feels Good (Resources for Changing Lives) (Paperback) by Edward T. Welch

Sexual Abuse

Beginning to Heal (Revised Edition): A First Book for Men and Women Who Were Sexually Abused As Children, by Ellen Bass Laura Davis

A Conspiracy of Love: Living Through and Beyond Childhood Sexual Abuse by Wendy Read

Courage to Heal Workbook: For women & men survivors of child sexual abuse, by Laura Davis

Growing Beyond Abuse: A workbook for survivors of sexual exploitation or childhood sexual abuse by Signe L. Nestingen and Laurel Ruth Lewis

Moving On: A Journey Through Sexual Assault by Louise Phillips

No Secrets No Lies: How Black Families Can Heal from Sexual Abuse by Robin D Stone

Obsidian Mirror 3RD Edition Healing From Childhood abuse by Louise Wisechild

Nightmares Echo by Katlyn Stewart

Rebuilding the Garden: Healing the Spiritual Wounds of Childhood Sexual Assault by Karla McLaren

Repressed Memories: A Journey to Recovery from Sexual Abuse, by  Renee Fredrickson

Right to Innocence: Healing the Trauma of Childhood Sexual Abuse, The: A Therapeutic 7-Step Self-Help Program for Men and Women, Including How to Choose a Therapist and Find a Support Group, by  Eleanor Hamilton

Strong at the Heart: How It Feels to Heal from Sexual Abuse by Carolyn Lehman

Surviving Childhood Sexual Abuse: Practical Self-Help for Adults Who Were Sexually Abused As Children, by Caroline Ainscough and Kay Toon

A Wallflower No More: Building a New Life After Emotional and Sexual Abuse by Jayne Maas Freeman

Sibling Abuse                                                                                   Search Amazon        ^Top

The Broken Taboo: Sex in the Family (Paperback) by Blair Justice, Rita Justice

Not Child's Play: An Anthology on Brother-Sister Incest by Risa Shaw

Sibling Abuse: Hidden Physical, Emotional, and Sexual Trauma by Vernon R. Wiehe

Sibling Abuse Trauma : Assessment and Intervention Strategies for Children, Families, and Adults John V. Caffaro

Sibling Abuse Trauma (Paperback) by John Caffaro


Therapy                                                                                         
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An Uncommon Dialogue by Debra Drake

Every Day Gets a Little Closer: A Twice-Told Therapy by Irvin D. Yalom, Ginny Elkin

Existential Psychotherapy by Irvin D. Yalom

The Heart of Psychotherapy: The Most Honest, Revealing, Fascinating Account of What Goes On In Therapy by George Weinberg

In Session: The Bond Between Women and Their Therapists by Deborah A. Lott

Love's Executioner: and other Tales of Psychotherapy by Irvin D. Yalom

Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy by Irvin D. Yalom

When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession by Irvin D. Yalom

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