Trauma Resources

Here are a list of valuable trauma support resources provided by River Willow Fagan during SAPAC's writing workshop on November 30th:

Books:

     Trauma/Narrative Theory:

• Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence-- from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror by Judith Herman
• The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics by Arthur W. Frank
• Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Changes Our Lives by Louise DeSalvo
• Walking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter Levine

     Autobiographical Narratives:

• Black Boy by Richard Wright
• The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde
• Dangerous Families: Queer Writing on Surviving edited by Matt Bernstein Sycamore
• I Am a Red Dress by Anna Camilleri
• A Language Older than Words by Derrick Jensen
• Exile and Pride by Eli Clare

     Fictional Narratives:

• A Map to the Next World: Poems and Tales by Joy Harjo
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Case Histories: A Novel by Kate Atkinson

     Websites:

• Activist Trauma Support- http://www.activist-trauma.net/
• Allied Media Projects- http://alliedmedia.org/
• Center for Digital Storytelling- http://www.storycenter.org/index1.html
• Healing Trauma- http://healingtrauma.pscap.org/
• Power-Under: Trauma and Non-Violent Social Change- http://www.traumaandnonviolence.com/
• Rape Abuse and Incest National Network- http://www.rainn.org/
• Storytelling & Organizing Project- http://www.stopviolenceeveryday.org/

If anyone has any suggestions of resources to add to the list, please contact me at hscol@umich.edu

-Heather Colohan