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Grief vs. Traumatic Grief

By Odelya Gertel Kraybill — 2019

Traumatic grief, that is, the grief that accompanies loss that is unexpected, is different. Such a loss triggers post-trauma survival mechanisms in addition to the mourning of whatever was unexpectedly lost.

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Neurofeedback in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma: Calming the Fear-Driven Brain

Working with the circuitry of the brain to restore emotional health and well-being.

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Sebern F. Fisher
2025
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The Polyvagal Theory and PTSD with Stephen Porges, PhD

The polyvagal theory is the brain child of Stephen Porges, PhD. What Dr.

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Stephen Porges
2011
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What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

Our earliest experiences shape our lives far down the road, and What Happened to You? provides powerful scientific and emotional insights into the behavioral patterns so many of us struggle to understand.

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Bruce D. Perry, Oprah Winfrey
2021
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The Effect of Trauma on the Brain and How It Affects Behaviors | John Rigg | TEDxAugusta

In his work with trauma patients, Dr. Rigg has observed how the brain is constantly reacting to sensory information, generating non-thinking reactions before our intelligent individual human brains are able to process the event and formulate a self-driven response.

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2015
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The Secret to Ending Mental Illness | Dr. Daniel Amen on Health Theory

Daniel Amen wants to see the end of mental illness, and he may very well achieve his goal.

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Daniel Amen
2020
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Can’t You Hear Them?

The experience of ‘hearing voices,’ once associated with lofty prophetic communications, has fallen low. Today, the experience is typically portrayed as an unambiguous harbinger of madness caused by a broken brain, an unbalanced mind, biology gone wild.

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Simon McCarthy-Jones
2017
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The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist”s Notebook—What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing

In this instant classic of developmental psychology, a renowned psychiatrist examines the effect that trauma can have on a child, reveals how PTSD impacts the developing mind, and outlines the path to recovery.

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Bruce D. Perry, Maia Szalavitz
2017
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Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy

Trauma and the Body is a detailed review of research in neuroscience, trauma, dissociation, and attachment theory that points to the need for an integrative mind-body approach to trauma.

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Pat Ogden, Kekuni Minton, Clare Pain
2006
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In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness

In this culmination of his life’s work, Peter A. Levine draws on his broad experience as a clinician, a student of comparative brain research, a stress scientist and a keen observer of the naturalistic animal world to explain the nature and transformation of trauma in the body, brain and psyche.

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Peter Levine, Gabor Maté (foreword)
2010
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