11 Best mental health books like Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice by Judith Lewis Herman

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Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice

By: Judith Lewis Herman

4.21

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From one of America’s most influential psychiatrists, an “extraordinary” and “profound” ( New York …

"Violence does not need to be used very often; it merely needs to be convincing when it is used."

-Judith Lewis Herman, Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice

"Rape could be considered the signal crime of male supremacy, a pure enactment of power for its own sake."

-Judith Lewis Herman, Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice

"Retributive anger—what I would call blind rage or humiliated fury—is what people feel when they are alone and abandoned to their fates. The wish to retaliate is born of isolation and helplessness."

-Judith Lewis Herman, Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice

"In our system of criminal law, the state, not the victim, is actually considered the injured party, and it is the state, not the victim, that has the exclusive right to take action against a criminal offender."

-Judith Lewis Herman, Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice

If you liked the mental health plot in Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice by Judith Lewis Herman , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment

By: Babette Rothschild

4.29

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

For both clinicians and their clients there is tremendous value in understanding the psychophysiolo… read more

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  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"The symptomatology of PTSD. In PTSD a traumatic event is not remembered and relegated to one's past in the same way as other life events. Trauma continues to intrude with visual, auditory, and/or oth…"

-Babette Rothschild, The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment

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2. Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others

By: Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky , Connie Burk

4.18

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

A longtime trauma worker, Laura van Dernoot Lipsky offers a deep and empathetic survey of the often… read more

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  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • self help

3. Little Book of Restorative Justice: A Bestselling Book By One Of The Founders Of The Movement

By: Howard Zehr

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

Vengeance and bitter violence have had their turns -- without redemptive results. How should we as … read more

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4. Salvador

By: Joan Didion

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Terror is the given of the place." The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its … read more

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5. What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

By: Stephanie Foo

4.52

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the… read more

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  • self help
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity

By: Nadine Burke Harris

4.45

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Dr. Nadine Burke Harris was already known as a crusading physician delivering targeted care to vuln… read more

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  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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7. My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts

By: Resmaa Menakem

4.40

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trau… read more

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  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • self help
"At its best, activism is a form of healing. It is about what we do and how we show up in the world. It is about learning and expressing regard, compassion and love."

-Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts

"In today's America, we tend to think of healing as something binary: either we're broken or we've healed from that brokenness. But that's not how healing operates, and it's almost never how human gro…"

-Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts

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8. Opal Lee and What It Means to Be Free: The True Story of the Grandmother of Juneteenth

By: Alice Faye Duncan

4.31

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Black activist Opal Lee had a vision of Juneteenth as a holiday for everyone. Growing up in Texas, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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9. Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice

By: Judith Lewis Herman

4.21

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From one of America’s most influential psychiatrists, an “extraordinary” and “profound” ( New York … read more

Similar categories in Judith Lewis Herman's Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice book and Judith Lewis Herman's Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice

  • self help
  • health
  • feminism
  • gender
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • abuse
  • audiobook
"Violence does not need to be used very often; it merely needs to be convincing when it is used."

-Judith Lewis Herman, Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice

"Rape could be considered the signal crime of male supremacy, a pure enactment of power for its own sake."

-Judith Lewis Herman, Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice

"Retributive anger—what I would call blind rage or humiliated fury—is what people feel when they are alone and abandoned to their fates. The wish to retaliate is born of isolation and helplessness."

-Judith Lewis Herman, Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice

"In our system of criminal law, the state, not the victim, is actually considered the injured party, and it is the state, not the victim, that has the exclusive right to take action against a criminal…"

-Judith Lewis Herman, Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice

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10. Polywise: A Deeper Dive into Navigating Open Relationships

By: Jessica Fern

4.38

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

As polyamory continues to make its way into the mainstream, more and more people are exploring cons… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
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11. Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto

By: Michelle Bowdler

4.46

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

She Said meets Know My Name in Michelle Bowdler's provocative debut, telling the story of her rape … read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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12. Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma

By: Mariel Buqué

4.32

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, paradigm-shifting guide to healing intergenerational trauma—weaving together scient… read more

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  • self help
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Take the Intergenerational ACES Questionnaire."

-Mariel Buqué, Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma

"Take the Intergenerational ACES (Adverse Childhood Experiences) Questionnaire."

-Mariel Buqué, Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma

"Three core areas became the focus: (1) What happened to you? (2) What happened before you? and (3) What happened around you?"

-Mariel Buqué, Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma

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13. "You Should Be Grateful": Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption

By: Angela Tucker

4.60

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

An adoption expert and transracial adoptee herself examines the unique perspectives and challenges … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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14. You or Someone You Love: Reflections from an Abortion Doula

By: Hannah Matthews

4.44

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Named a Glamour Best Nonfiction Book of 2023 * theSkimm Favorite Book of Summer 2023 * NPR Science … read more

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  • health
  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
"I don't often engage in debates over abortion rights, for the same reason I don't sit down to share a meal at any table where I am on the menu. My body is not a theory or a talking point, and neither…"

-Hannah Matthews, You or Someone You Love: Reflections from an Abortion Doula

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15. Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice

By: Rupa Marya

4.31

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Raj Patel, the New York Times bestselling author of The Value of Nothing, teams up with physician, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • health
Cover of The Pain We Carry: Healing from Complex PTSD for People of Color (The Social Justice Handbook Series) by Natalie Y. Gutiérrez,

16. The Pain We Carry: Healing from Complex PTSD for People of Color (The Social Justice Handbook Series)

By: Natalie Y. Gutiérrez,

4.46

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

It’s time to heal the invisible wounds of complex trauma and reclaim your mind, body, and spirit. I… read more

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  • self help
  • health
  • feminism
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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17. Kissing Girls on Shabbat: A Memoir

By: Sara Glass

4.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A moving coming-of-age memoir in the vein of Unorthodox and Brazen , about one young woman’s desper… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Altogether You: Experiencing personal and spiritual transformation with Internal Family Systems therapy by Jenna Riemersma

18. Altogether You: Experiencing personal and spiritual transformation with Internal Family Systems therapy

By: Jenna Riemersma

4.45

Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition

Therapist and speaker Jenna Riemersma applies the groundbreaking insights of Internal Family System… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
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19. The Yellow Bus

By: Loren Long

4.36

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Love and Hello, Lighthouse , The Yellow Bus from #1 New York Times bestselling … read more

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20. The Body Remembers Volume 2: Revolutionizing Trauma Treatment

By: Babette Rothschild

4.50

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Challenging the notion that clients with PTSD must revisit, review, and process their memories to r… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
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21. What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World

By: Prentis Hemphill

4.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From one of the most prominent voices in the trauma conversation comes a groundbreaking new way to … read more

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  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook

10 best-selling audiobook books like Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice by Judith Lewis Herman

Transform Your Habits

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

Stephanie Foo

4.52

Transform Your Habits

Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice

Judith Lewis Herman

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Polywise: A Deeper Dive into Navigating Open Relationships

Jessica Fern

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto

Michelle Bowdler

4.46

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16 Best audiobook books like Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto by Michelle Bowdler

Transform Your Habits

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

Roxane Gay

4.43

Transform Your Habits

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Antonia Hylton

4.27

Transform Your Habits

One Way Back: A Memoir

Christine Blasey Ford

4.30

Transform Your Habits

How to Fight Anti-Semitism

Bari Weiss

4.19

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