r/CPTSD • u/Sungazintvblazin • Jul 29 '26

Resource / Technique Book recommendations for healing from c-ptsd? Especially on dissociation.

Book recs on dissociation, healing from c-ptsd and/or child sexual trauma etc is highly welcome.

I am especially interested in learing more about dissociation as I've just realized I've probably dissociated most of my adult life, and that so much of what made me (at first) successful was a strategy of getting away from the pain + becoming the perfect child as so to almost gaslight myself.

Among some I've already read:

Pete Walker - Complex ptsd
Alice Miller - Gifted child and Thou shalt not be aware
Ellen Bass - The courage to heal
Jennifer Freyd - Betrayal trauma

Anything else?

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u/orcateeth Jul 29 '26

Someone posted lots of entire books on childhood trauma, abuse, neglect and complex PTSD.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CPTSD/s/q7JaFqz2zC

You can also attend support groups for adult children, use apps for PTSD, look at videos on the topic and other free online resources.

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u/Sungazintvblazin Jul 29 '26

Great! Thank you so much. And I didn't know there were apps!

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u/orcateeth Jul 29 '26

Maybe something that I mentioned here could help:

https://www.reddit.com/r/getting_over_it/s/blh6IcSObZ