Trauma Identity

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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, ...

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...

From Sally Hepworth, the New York Times bestselling author of The Soulmate and The Good Sister, comes a twist-filled, darkly funny mystery about the two kinds of people no one ever expects to be murderers: little girls and old ladies. Meet Mad Mabel. Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick is eighty-one years...

'Truly a book for our time' PAUL LYNCH FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE SPECKLED PEOPLE Fleeing his failed marriage in Berlin, Lukas Dorn revisits the West of Ireland, the place of his honeymoon two decades earlier. While his former wife is being cancelled at work and his daughter is...

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...

Why do you miss someone who hurt you? Why does your heart crave the very person who caused your pain? If you’ve ever felt trapped in a cycle of emotional highs and crushing lows… if you replay the good memories while ignoring the damage… if walking away felt like withdrawal instead of relief — you may not be dealing with love. You may be dealing with a trauma bond. Trauma Bond Breaker Guide is a clear, practical roadmap for anyone struggling to detach from an unhealthy emotional attachment. This powerful guide explains the psychology behind trauma bonding in simple, easy-to-...

A searing account of the ways in which mental health culture distorts our understanding of mental illness, abandons the severely ill, and threatens the lives of millions who desperately need care. Mental health culture in the 21st century is broken. After decades of influence from the...

In late Victorian England, private enquiry agents Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn find themselves in the middle of the deadly chaos when powerful forces align to take over London's criminal underworld. "Antony Ferguson transports listeners to London.... The sharp writing and Ferguson's...

In The Healing Otherness Handbook, Stacee Reicherzer-a nationally known transgender psychotherapist and expert on trauma, otherness, and self-sabotage - shares her own personal story of childhood bullying, and how it inspired her to help others heal from the same wounds. Drawing from mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), Reicherzer will help you gain a better understanding of how past trauma has limited your life, and show you the keys to freeing yourself from self-defeating, destructive beliefs.