Self-Help Books / Post-traumatic stress

Trust After Trauma: A Guide to Relationships for Survivors and Those Who Love Them

by Aphrodite Matsakis , Ph.D. (Paperback, 288 pages, 1998)  The author guides survivors through a process of strengthening existing bonds, building new ones, and ending self-perpetuating cycles of withdrawal and isolation.  Step-by-step exercises help readers learn how to make their important relationships a context for healing.