11 must-read psychology books like Transformed by Trauma: Stories of Posttraumatic Growth by Richard Tedeschi

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Transformed by Trauma: Stories of Posttraumatic Growth

By: Richard Tedeschi

3.84

Format: 197 pages, Kindle Edition

All of our lives are filled with ups and downs, triumphs and tragedy, success and stress. The quest…

If you liked the psychology plot in Transformed by Trauma: Stories of Posttraumatic Growth by Richard Tedeschi , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"

By: Lena Dunham , Joana Avillez

3.29

Format: 265 pages, Hardcover

"There is nothing gutsier to me than a person announcing that their story is one that deserves to b… read more

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"Energy attracts energy."

-Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"

"Everyone hates a suit. Event the suits."

-Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"

"Luxury is nice but creativity is nicer."

-Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"

"Being a student was an enviable identity."

-Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"

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2. Parts Work: An Illustrated Guide to Your Inner Life by Tom Holmes (2007-10-04)

By: Tom Holmes , Sharon Eckstein , Lauri Holmes

4.18

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

The book, Parts Work, describes our inner psychological world with drawings which are moving, thoug… read more

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3. The Hangman (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #6.5)

By: Louise Penny

3.81

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

On a cold November morning, a jogger runs through the woods in the peaceful Quebec village of Three… read more

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4. Systems of Psychotherapy: A Transtheoretical Analysis

By: James O. Prochaska , John C. Norcross

3.68

Format: 265 pages, Hardcover

Systematic and balanced, this comprehensive text uses a wealth of clinical case illustrations to he… read more

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5. The Casual Vacancy

By: J.K. Rowling

3.96

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A BIG NOVEL ABOUT A SMALL TOWN ... When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pa… read more

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6. The Compassion Fatigue Workbook: Creative Tools for Transforming Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Traumatization

By: Françoise Mathieu

3.33

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

The Compassion Fatigue Workbook is a lifeline for any helping professional facing the physical and … read more

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7. The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery

By: Ian Morgan Cron , Suzanne Stabile

4.21

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

Ignorance is bliss except in self-awareness... What you don't know about yourself can hurt you a… read more

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"The Enneagram is a tool that awakens our compassion for people just as they are, not the people we wish they would become so our lives would become easier."

-Ian Morgan Cron, The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery

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8. The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy

By: Irvin D. Yalom , Molyn Leszcz

3.66

Format: 162 pages, Hardcover

In this completely revised and updated fifth edition of group psychotherapy's standard text, Dr. Ya… read more

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9. Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You

By: Sam Gosling

4.14

Format: 222 pages,

Do the things on your desk betray the thoughts on your mind? Does your dining room decor carry clue… read more

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10. Napoleon's Hemorrhoids: ... and Other Small Events That Changed History

By: Phil Mason

3.86

Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition

Hilarious, fascinating, and a roller coaster of dizzying, historical what-ifs, Napoleon's Hemorrhoi… read more

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11. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

By: Tavis Smiley , Wes Moore

4.26

Format: 91 pages, Hardcover

Two kids with the same name lived in the same decaying city. One went on to be a Rhodes Scholar, de… read more

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12. Last of the Breed

By: Louis L'Amour

3.69

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Here is the kind of authentically detailed epic novel that has become Louis L'Amour's hallmark. It … read more

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13. Specials (Uglies, #3)

By: Scott Westerfeld

4.00

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

"Special Circumstances": The words have sent chills down Tally's spine since her days as a repellen… read more

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14. The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook

By: Bruce D. Perry , Maia Szalavitz

4.80

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

What happens when a young brain is traumatized? How does terror, abuse, or disaster affect a child'… read more

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15. A Fatal Grace (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #2)

By: Louise Penny

4.34

Format: 592 pages,

Welcome to winter in Three Pines, a picturesque village in Quebec, where the villagers are preparin… read more

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16. Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World

By: Michael Pollan

3.72

Format: 2 pages, Audible Audio

Listening time = 2h 2m Pollan takes us on a journey through the history of the drug, which was f… read more

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17. What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

By: Bruce D. Perry

4.44

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Our earliest experiences shape our lives far down the road, and What Happened to You? provides powe… read more

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18. Leslie F*cking Jones

By: Leslie Jones

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Hey you guys, it’s Leslie. I’m excited to share my story with you. Now, I’m gonna be honest: Som… read more

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"Dad"

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

"Some of the stories about my childhood is vague, because a bitch is 55 and I've smoked a lot of weed."

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

"I was built for strong... I was never a victim. And even though really bad shit happened to me, I know it's my job to help other back girls and women get strong like me."

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

"I even attended a Christian singles night lecture kind of thing—I was single, it was free, and it was Church. Honestly, that night should be an episode of American Horror Story. The woman leading it …"

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

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19. Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death

By: Nick Lane

4.04

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

What brings the Earth to life, and our own lives to an end? For decades, biology has been domina… read more

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"Almost the only thing we know for sure about consciousness is that it is, so to speak, soluble in ether, chloroform and a variety of other solvents ..."

-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death

"Core metabolism has changed little in part because it was never powered down in its four-billion-year history. The genes are custodians of this flame, but without the flame life is – dead."

-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death

"Keen to progress the work on photosynthesis, Lawrence hired Melvin Calvin, a colleague from the Manhattan Project, immediately after the war. The story has it that on the day of the Japanese surrende…"

-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death

"Putting terms aside, we’ll see that the ancient biosynthetic Krebs cycle was fixing CO2 a billion years before rubisco and the evolution of photosynthesis in the cyanobacterial ancestors of plant chl…"

-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death

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20. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

By: Mary Roach

4.06

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Beloved, best-selling science writer Mary Roach’s classic, now with a new epilogue. For two tho… read more

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"There wasn't an anhydrous lacrimal gland in the room..."

-Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

"You are a person and then you cease to be a person, and a cadaver takes your place."

-Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

"Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is."

-Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

"We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget."

-Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

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21. No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

By: Richard C. Schwartz

4.15

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Discover an empowering new way of understanding your multifaceted mind—and healing the many parts t… read more

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"The big insight was that giving a troubled person a psychiatric diagnosis and seeing that as the sole or main cause of their symptoms was unnecessarily limiting, pathologizing, and could become self-…"

-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

"IFS can be seen as attachment theory taken inside, in the sense that the client’s Self becomes the good attachment figure to their insecure or avoidant parts. I was initially amazed to discover that …"

-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

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22. Landlines

By: Raynor Winn

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more

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"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

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23. The Ickabog

By: J.K. Rowling

3.91

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

Once upon a time there was a tiny kingdom called Cornucopia, as rich in happiness as it was in gold… read more

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"Tears can heal a mind, as well as laughter."

-J.K. Rowling, The Ickabog

"Still, it was hard to have parents who lived inside you, when all you really wanted was for them to come back, and hug you."

-J.K. Rowling, The Ickabog

"You may think this strange, but Mrs. Beamish was glad to hear Mr. Dovetail cry, because tears can heal a mind, as well as laughter."

-J.K. Rowling, The Ickabog

"Lži, lži a zase lži. Jakmile jednou začnete lhát, musíte lhát dál a pak jste jako kapitán na děravé lodi a lepíte jednu díru za duhou, abyste se nepotopili."

-J.K. Rowling, The Ickabog

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24. Everything My Mother Taught Me

By: Alice Hoffman

4.00

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

In this haunting short story of loyalty and betrayal, a young woman in early 1900s Massachusetts di… read more

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25. Sometimes Therapy is Awkward

By: Nicole Arzt

3.90

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

Sometimes therapy is awkward. And sometimes it's also painful, messy, and downright confusing. In i… read more

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26. Deep Hole

By: Don Winslow

3.36

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

In Deep Hole, one of the world's foremost crime novelists crafts a sweet, poignant romance novella … read more

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27. Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

By: Layla F. Saad

4.34

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

Me and White Supremacy teaches readers how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that the… read more

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"You do not have to be the loudest voice. But you do need to use your voice."

-Layla F. Saad, Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

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28. Building a Life Worth Living: A Memoir

By: Marsha M. Linehan

4.11

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Marsha Linehan tells the story of her journey from suicidal teenager to world-renowned developer of… read more

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"Somehow I lost all ability to regulate not only my emotions but my behavior as well.... It was an alarmingly rapid and complete descent into hell."

-Marsha M. Linehan, Building a Life Worth Living: A Memoir

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29. The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)

By: Deb Dana

4.41

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This book offers therapists an integrated approach to adding a polyvagal foundation to their work w… read more

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"The job of the autonomic nervous system is to ensure we survive in moments of danger and thrive in times of safety. Survival requires threat detection and the activation of a survival response. Thriv…"

-Deb Dana, The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)

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30. Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

By: Tunde Oyeneyin

4.30

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From Tunde Oyeneyin, the massively popular Peloton instructor, fitness star, and founder of SPEAK, … read more

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"Life is short and everything is temporary."

-Tunde Oyeneyin, Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

"The best way to change was to make changes."

-Tunde Oyeneyin, Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

"I can picture it, easily, but I would have liked to see it."

-Tunde Oyeneyin, Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

"My mind was my most powerful asset and my strongest muscle."

-Tunde Oyeneyin, Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

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31. Transformed by Trauma: Stories of Posttraumatic Growth

By: Richard Tedeschi

3.84

Format: 197 pages, Kindle Edition

All of our lives are filled with ups and downs, triumphs and tragedy, success and stress. The quest… read more

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11 Top audiobook books like Landlines by Raynor Winn

Transform Your Habits

Walking Home: A Poet's Journey

Simon Armitage

3.73

Transform Your Habits

De Camino

Anya Niewierra

4.00

Transform Your Habits

You Are Here

David Nicholls

4.08

Transform Your Habits

The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

Richard Osman

4.49

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