Contents

Preface

Introduction

1: A Look at Trauma: Simple and Complex

2: Before Doing the Work: Safety, Security, and Intention

3: Identifying and Writing about What Has Happened to You

4: Helping Yourself When You Re-experience a Trauma

5: Coping with Trauma with Less Avoidance and Denial

6: The Physical Side of PTSD

7: Dealing with Associated Symptoms of PTSD: Guilt, Survivor Guilt, Shame, and Loss

8: Difficulty Regulating Emotion (Complex PTSD, Category 1)

9: Alterations in Attention or Consciousness: Dealing with Dissociation and Traumatic Amnesia (Complex PTSD, Category 2)

10: Somatization: How Trauma Impacts Your Body (Complex PTSD, Category 3)

11: How Trauma Impacts the Way You View Yourself (Complex PTSD, Category 4)

12: Dealing with Your Perpetrators(Complex PTSD, Category 5)

13: Alterations in Your Relationships with Others (Complex PTSD, Category 6)

14: Finding Meaning (Complex PTSD Category 7)

15: Final Thoughts and Exercises

Complex PTSD Questionnaire for Trauma Survivors

References