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6 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 11 cm

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xx, 294 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 23 cm

Testimony : crises of witnessing in literature, psychoanalysis, and history / Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub.

"This resource, written by Tamara Santibañez in collaboration with the Women's Prison Association, was developed in response to the needs of clients who are trauma-impacted or survivors of violence. The guide describes ways to integrate informed consent into the tattooing process, practical ways to be mindful of boundaries and communication, and tips for active listening."--From Brown Recluse Zine Distro's website. <a href="https://www.brownreclusezinedistro.com/shop/p/trauma-aware-tattooing-pamphlet">https://www.brownreclusezinedistro.com/shop/p/trauma-aware-tattooing-pamphlet</a>

1 folded sheet (5 unnumbered pages) ; 22 x 28 cm folded to 22 x 10 cm

Informed consent and trauma aware tattooing : practical guidelines for artists / written by Tamara Santibañez in collaboration with the Women's Prison Association.

It's not the police, firefighters, or EMTs that clean up a crime scene--that's the job of a trauma cleaner, specifically Sandra Pankhurst. Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, trophy wife ... But as a little boy, raised in violence and excluded from the family home, she just wanted to belong. Now she believes her clients deserve no less. A woman who sleeps among garbage she has not put out for forty years. A man who bled quietly to death in his loungeroom. A woman who lives with rats, random debris and terrified delusion. The still life of a home vacated by accidental overdose. Sarah Krasnostein has watched the extraordinary Sandra Pankhurst bring order and care to these, the living and the dead--and the book she has written is equally extraordinary. Not just the compelling story of a fascinating life among lives of desperation, but an affirmation that, as isolated as we may feel, we are all in this together.

261 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

The trauma cleaner : one woman's extraordinary life in death, decay & disaster / by Sarah Krasnostein.

SUNY series in the philosophy of the social sciences

The trauma controversy : philosophical and interdisciplinary dialogues / edited by Kristen Brown Golden  and  Bettina G. Bergo.

My Brain Hurts

20 unnumbered pages : black and white illustrations ; 22 cm

My brain hurts / by Liz Baillie.

What is trauma? How does it change the way our brains work? And how can we overcome it? When something traumatic happens to us, we dissociate and our bodies shut down their normal processes. This unique comic explains the strange nature of trauma and how it confuses the brain and affects the body. With wonderful artwork, cat and mouse metaphors, essential scientific facts, and a healthy dose of wit, the narrator reveals how trauma resolution involves changing the body's physiology and describes techniques that can achieve this, including Trauma Releasing Exercises that allow the body to shake away tension, safely releasing deep muscular patterns of stress and trauma.

32 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 23 cm

Trauma is really strange / Steve Haines ; art by Sophie Standing.

"During his lifetime John Bowlby, the founder of attachment theory, was unable to publish as he wished due to strong opposition to his ideas. Now, with the support of the Bowlby family, several complete and near-complete works from the John Bowlby Archive at the Wellcome Collection are published for the first time. The collection spans Bowlby's thinking from his early ideas to later reflections, and is split into four parts. Part 1 includes essays on the topic of loss, mourning and depression, outlining his thoughts on the role of defence mechanisms. Part 2 covers Bowlby's ideas around anxiety, guilt and identification, including reflections on his observations of and work with evacuated children. Part 3 features three seminars on the subject of conflict, in which Bowlby relates clinical concepts to both political philosophy and psychoanalysis in innovative ways. Part 4 consists of Bowlby's later reflections on trauma and loss, and on his own work as a therapist. This remarkable collection not only clarifies Bowlby's relationship with psychoanalysis but features his elaboration of key concepts in attachment theory and important moments of self-criticism. It will be essential reading for clinicians, researchers, and others interested in human development, relationships and adversity."--

Trauma and loss : key texts from the John Bowlby archive / edited by Robbie Duschinsky and Kate White.

In 1944, sixteen-year-old Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz. There she endured unimaginable experiences, including being made to dance for the infamous Josef Mengele. Over the coming months, Edith's bravery helped her sister to survive, and led to her bunkmates rescuing her during a death march. When their camp was finally liberated, Edith was pulled from a pile of bodies, barely alive.In The Choice, Dr Edith Eger shares her experience of the Holocaust and the remarkable stories of those she has helped ever since. Today, she is an internationally acclaimed psychologist whose patients include survivors of abuse and soldiers suffering from PTSD. She explains how many of us live within a mind that has become a prison, and shows how freedom becomes possible once we confront our suffering.Like Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning, but exceptional in its own right, The Choice is life changing. Warm, compassionate and infinitely wise, it is a profound examination of the human spirit, and our capacity to heal.

The choice / Edith Eger with Esme Schwall Weigand.

"Notes Made While Falling is both a genre-bending memoir and a cultural study of traumatized and sickened selves in fiction and film. It offers a fresh, visceral, and idiosyncratic perspective on creativity, spirituality, illness, and the limits of fiction itself. At its heart is a story of a disastrously traumatic childbirth, its long aftermath, and the out-of-time roots of both trauma and creativity in an extraordinary childhood. Moving from fairgrounds to Agatha Christie, from literary festivals to neuroscience and the Bible, from Chernobyl to King Lear, Ashworth takes us on a fantastic journey through familiar landscapes transformed through unexpected encounters and comic combinations. The everyday provides the ground for the macabre and the absurd, as the narration twists and stretches time. Hovering on the edge of madness, writing, it seems, might keep us sane--or might just allow us to keep on living."--

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Testimony : crises of witnessing in literature, psychoanalysis, and history / Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub.

Informed consent and trauma aware tattooing : practical guidelines for artists / written by Tamara Santibañez in collaboration with the Women's Prison Association.

The trauma cleaner : one woman's extraordinary life in death, decay & disaster / by Sarah Krasnostein.

The trauma controversy : philosophical and interdisciplinary dialogues / edited by Kristen Brown Golden and Bettina G. Bergo.

My brain hurts / by Liz Baillie.

Trauma is really strange / Steve Haines ; art by Sophie Standing.

Trauma and loss : key texts from the John Bowlby archive / edited by Robbie Duschinsky and Kate White.

The choice / Edith Eger with Esme Schwall Weigand.

Notes made while falling / Jenn Ashworth.

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Testimony : crises of witnessing in literature, psychoanalysis, and history / Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub.

Informed consent and trauma aware tattooing : practical guidelines for artists / written by Tamara Santibañez in collaboration with the Women's Prison Association.

The trauma cleaner : one woman's extraordinary life in death, decay & disaster / by Sarah Krasnostein.

The trauma controversy : philosophical and interdisciplinary dialogues / edited by Kristen Brown Golden and Bettina G. Bergo.

My brain hurts / by Liz Baillie.

Trauma is really strange / Steve Haines ; art by Sophie Standing.

Trauma and loss : key texts from the John Bowlby archive / edited by Robbie Duschinsky and Kate White.

The choice / Edith Eger with Esme Schwall Weigand.

Notes made while falling / Jenn Ashworth.

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