Books
These books specifically address PACEs science and/or the consequences of childhood adversity, and what we can do to heal and to prevent ACEs. Please see Books for Parents and Resources for Children under Parenting with PACEs for more titles. A wider-ranging book list, including books for children and memoirs, can be found here: Books! Educational Videos! Documentaries!
- Adverse Childhood Experiences: The Neuroscience of Trauma, Resilience and Healing throughout the Life Course
Kathleen Brewer-Smyth (Springer, Cham, 2022)
- The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D. (Penguin Books, 2015)
- Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential—and Endangered
Bruce D. Perry and Maia Szalavitz (William Morrow Paperbacks, 2010)
- The Circles Story
Scott C. Miller (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014)
- Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology and How You Can Heal
Donna Jackson Nakazawa (Atria Books, 2015)
- Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving
Pete Walker (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013)
- CredibleMind
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- Damaged: Childhood Trauma, Adult Illness, and the Need for a Health Care Revolution
Robert Maunder and Jonathan Hunter (University of Toronto Press, 2021)
- The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity
Nadine Burke Harris (Mariner Books, 2018)
- For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence
Alice Miller (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002)
- In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
Gabor Maté (North Atlantic Books, 2011)
- The Last Best Cure: My Quest to Awaken the Healing Parts of My Brain and Get Back My Body, My Joy, and My Life
Donna Jackson Nakazawa (Avery, 2013)
- My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
Resmaa Menakem (Central Recovery Press, 2017)
- The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
Gabor Maté MD (Avery, 2022)
- Prisoners of Childhood: The Drama of the Gifted Child and the Search for the True Self
Alice Miller (Basic Books, 1996)
- Redefining Trauma: Understanding and Coping with a Cortisoaked Brain
Sarah E. Wright (Routledge, 2020)
- Scared Sick: The Role of Childhood Trauma in Adult Disease
Robin Karr-Morse with Meredith S. Wiley (Basic Books, 2012)
- United States of Trauma: How a Pandemic Unmasked America
Robin Karr-Morse (author) with Meredith Wiley and Ronald David (contributors) (Independently published, 2020)
- What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD and Oprah Winfrey (Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book, 2021)
- PACEs Connection's Connecting Communities One Book at a Time initiative hosted several events to encourage book studies of What Happened to You? in 2022. The following materials can help you lead your own book study.
- Event recordings
- Resources
- When the Body Says No: Understanding the Stress-Disease Connection
Gabor Maté (Wiley, 2008)
