Trauma Identity

Featuring three new songs from David Archuleta making their exclusive debut on this audiobook! A raw and powerful coming-out story from the beloved American Idol finalist traces David Archuleta’s journey from closeted Mormon teen to global pop star to openly queer man, revealing the hidden...

“Discover the Hidden Gender Differences in Dissociative Identity Disorder That Transform Treatment Outcomes” Are you a mental health professional, therapist, or counselor seeking breakthrough insights into Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) and multiple personality disorder? Do you want to understand why trauma recovery and therapeutic approaches must be tailored differently for men and women with DID? In "Dissociative Identity Disorder Differences: How Multiple Personalities, Alters, and Mental Health Changes The Lives of Men vs Women," mental health expert Morris Finney presents the...

Why Betrayal Hurts More Than Loss The Psychology of Betrayal, Trust, Identity Collapse, Emotional Trauma, and Relationship Control. After the Knife It is a book about what happens when reality collapses. Loss removes something from your life. Betrayal rewrites the life you thought you were living. This book examines why betrayal triggers deeper psychological damage than death, separation, or abandonment - and why its effects linger long after the relationship ends. Through unsentimental psychological insight and lived human dynamics, it reveals how trust functions as power, how loyalty ...

“They’re gone,” I hear someone say. “Your mother, they all left. Did you know?” The door opens without resistance. They didn’t even bother to lock; they never did. Doors are never locked here, not in this apartment nor any other. Who would steal anything here? There is nothing to take. Born in a rural desert town to a family of Persian immigrants, Miriam was twelve years old the first time she had three meals in one day. The tenth daughter of twelve siblings, she was raised so far away from anyone who might care that there was no one around to see her endure the debilitating ...

For listeners of Colm Tóibín and Claire Keegan, Saoirse is a powerful novel set between the United States and Ireland about a woman who runs from her traumatic past and the secrets she carries to survive. Saoirse features light musical sound design. In Michigan, Sarah’s childhood was defined...

An essential resource that addresses the unique experiences of trauma, healing, and mental health in Asian and Asian American communities. Coauthors Soo Jin Lee and Linda Yoon are professional therapists who witnessed firsthand how mental health issues often went unaddressed not only in their...

Why Does Trauma Bonding Feel Like Love Why You Stay, Why It Hurts, and How to Detach and Recover You don’t stay because you don’t see the damage. You stay because leaving feels like losing yourself. Trauma bonding is not weakness. It is not naïveté. And it is not love. It is a psychological attachment formed through intensity, inconsistency, and emotional survival. This book explores why intelligent, self-aware people remain trapped in relationships that erode their sense of reality - and why logic alone cannot free them. Through deeply human examples and precise psychological ...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Stephen Graham Jones, the master of modern horror and New York Times bestselling author of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, a novel of revenge and identity hailed by Stephen King as “thrilling, literate, scary, immersive” that is equal parts psychological horror...

You’re Not Broken. You’re Just Tired A quiet, honest book for women who are done pretending they’re fine. You’ve held it together. You’ve done what was expected. You’ve tried to stay grateful, to keep the peace, to smile through the overwhelm. But deep down, something’s off. Not a crisis. Not a disaster. Just… a slow unraveling. You’re exhausted—and not in the “need a nap” kind of way. More like the “don’t know how to keep going, but still do” kind of tired. This book is for that version of you. What this book is — and what it’s not: It’s not a fix-it ...

Dissociation 101: The go-to guide for understanding your dissociative disorder, breaking the stigma, and healing from trauma-related dissociation. Guided by psychologist Jamie Marich--a trauma-informed clinician living with a dissociative disorder herself--this book tells you everything you need...

BRILLIANT, YOUNG AND AMBITIOUS, Annika Tritzchler defies the norms of 1930s Berlin by pursuing medical training in a venue traditionally dominated by men. Facing contempt from her counterparts is minor compared to the massive upheaval in a city transitioning to dictatorship while brutally persecuting its enemies. Annika's career takes a decisive turn when, early in her psychiatric residency, she is expected to participate in applied eugenics- the roguish trend within Nazi medicine. Sterilizing patients deemed racially inferior and euthanizing the handicapped (including patients that she, ...

Neuro-Forensic Duality Theory proposes that identity doesn't collapse under stress– it reorganizes. Through dynamic triangular clusters of self, observer, and memory, the mind preserves coherence even in fragmentation. Blending psychology, philosophy, and speculative neuroscience, A.C. Zito offers a bold new lens on resilience, identity, and the geometry of consciousness.

Gods in the Garden (Second Edition) by Cory B. Scott You were taught what to believe long before you were allowed to ask why. Gods in the Garden is a memoir of awakening for readers navigating faith deconstruction, belief collapse, and life after certainty. It speaks to anyone who grew up inside a religious system that once felt safe and sacred, and later realized it came with conditions, fear, and quiet control they were never warned about. This book sits at the crossroads of memoir, religious deconstruction, and philosophical reflection. Through lived experience, it explores how belief ...

In New York, ClearMind Industries promises a clean miracle: erase the worst memories, replace pain with peace, and give people their lives back. For some, it works. For others, the side effects don’t look like healing at all. A community organizer returns from “treatment” calmer—too calm—steering protests into silence. A battered woman can’t remember why she ran. A therapist who asks the wrong questions disappears. An engineer finds proof the system isn’t optimizing wellness…it’s optimizing usefulness. A journalist publishes what no one is supposed to see, and suddenly the...

They look like humans. They live among humans. But they are not humans. The Humerians, a hidden race, share human features yet are built upon a genetic blueprint unlike anything known to human science. These beings, gifted with extraordinary powers, have silently worked in the shadows for centuries, holding influential positions to ensure their survival… at any cost. As humanity stands before a toxic abyss, its collective psyche is steeped in greed, violence, and deception. The Earth, long-suffering beneath the weight of war and decay, stands on the edge of collapse, restrained by unseen ...

In the shadowed hollows of 1890s Ashe County, North Carolina, the enigmatic Melungeons—descendants of African, European, and indigenous blood—face a world of whispers and prejudice. Sensationalized by journalist Will Allen Dromgoole, their myths of shifting skin tones and exotic origins ignite public fascination, while census takers label them "free persons of color" amid flickering illusions: blue eyes and high cheekbones that shimmer like holograms under mountain light. But as racial reclassification laws tighten and discrimination bites deeper, a darker horror stirs—people ...

You’ve survived. But are you allowed to feel safe now? For years, pain has been your compass, your companion, your quiet proof that you were real. But now the storm has passed… and you don’t know who you are without it. In I Don’t Know Who I Am Without the Pain, bestselling author Sienna Thorne guides you through the tender, terrifying, and transformational journey of healing the identity shaped by suffering. This isn’t a book about “getting over it.” It’s about letting go without losing yourself. With gentle honesty and soul-deep reflection, each chapter walks beside you as...

In this captivated novel, a young Korean American woman attempts to distance herself from her family in order to forge an authentic future—but a violent act forces her to see that she’ll always be implicated with their actions and they with hers. "A pulsating signal from the liminal zone...

Held Under What happens when a man trained to protect must stand still? When the threat is not a battlefield — but distance, paperwork, and time? In Held Under, Dr. Eric Infanti tells the story of a Marine veteran who found himself fighting a different kind of war: the slow, suffocating pressure of an immigration system moving at a pace indifferent to love. While his wife Maryam and daughter Eli wait overseas in Tehran— under the shadow of geopolitical instability and regional conflict — Eric waited in North Carolina. Watching portals. Tracking timelines. Filing motions. Escalating ...

From one of the leading grief therapists, this compassionate and accessible guide to grieving offers a new framework for understanding and navigating loss. An intimate guide to grieving that offers hope and healing within loss from one of the nation’s top grief therapists. Conscious Grieving...