Resources

Communication Skills & Conflict Resolution

• Nonviolent Communication – Marshall B. Rosenberg
• The Dance of Anger – Harriet Lerner

Trauma & Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

• The Body Keeps the Score – Bessel Vander Kolk
• Complex PTSD – Pete Walker
• Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors – Janina Fisher

Focus: Understanding trauma’s impact on mind and body, trauma recovery techniques, dissociation, emotional fragmentation.

Attachment Theory & Family Dynamics

• Attachment Psychotherapy – David J. Wallin
• The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read – Phillipa Perry
• Bradshaw on: The Family – John Bradshaw
• The Drama of Being a Child – Alice Miller

Focus: Parent-child relationships, attachment styles, family systems, childhood wounds, reparenting.

Addiction & Behavioral Patterns

• The Addictive Personality – Craig Nakken
• In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts – Gabor Mate

Focus: Addiction psychology, personality traits linked to addiction, trauma and addiction connection, recovery.

Shame, Identity & Inner Work

• Chronic Shame – Patricia A. Deyoung
• Dark Nights of the Soul – Thomas Moore

Focus: Shame resilience, spiritual/emotional struggles, self-identity, inner transformation.

Existential Psychology & Meaning Making

• Man’s Search for Meaning – Victor E. Frank
• The Eden Project – James Hillman

Focus: Finding purpose, existential crises, soul work, depth psychology.

Psychosynthesis Books: Exploring Personal Growth and Transformation

• Spiritual Emergency: When Personal Transformation Becomes a Crisis – Stanislav Grof, MD and Christina Grof
• The Primal Wound – John Firman and Ann Gila
• A Collection of Basic Writings – Roberto Assagioli
• The Act of Will – Roberto Assagioli
• The Soul of Psychosynthesis – Kenneth Sorensen
• Psychosynthesis: A Psychology of the Spirit – John Firman & Ann Gila
• What We May Be – Piero Ferrucci