Required and Recommended Reading

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Required additional reading materials you will have to borrow or purchase are:

  • Davis-Floyd, R. & Jordan, B. (2004). Birth as an american rite of passage, 2nd ed. Berkeley, CA: U of California Press. Introductions and chapters 1-5
  • Kerr-Morse, Robin. (2012). Scared sick: The role of childhood trauma in adult disease. New York, NY: Basic Books. Chapters 2, 3, 4, 5, and 9
  • Levine, P. (2016) Trauma and memory: Brain and body in a search for the living past: A practical guide for understanding and working with traumatic memory. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books. Chapter 8.
  • Weinstein, A. (2016). Prenatal development and parents' lived experiences: How early events shape our psychophysiology and relationships (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology). NY: Norton Press. Chapter 12.

Recommended Reading and Viewing (not required):

Arrien, A. (1993). Living the four-fold way: Waking the paths of the warrior, teacher, healer, and visionary. New York: Harper One.

Deloache, J. & Gottlieb, A. (2000). A world of babies: Imagined childcare guides for seven societies. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Chabat, A., Billot, A. & Balmes, T. (2010). Babies. United States: NBC Universal.

Edwards, VJ, Anda, RF, Dube, SR, Dong, M, Chapman, DF, Felitti, VJ. The wide-ranging health consequences of adverse childhood experiences. In Kathleen Kendall-Tackett and Sarah Giacomoni (eds.) Victimization of Children and Youth: Patterns of Abuse, Response Strategies, Kingston, NJ: Civic Research Institute; 2005.

Adverse Childhood Experiences Score. http://www.cdc.gov/ace/about.htm

The Adverse Childhood Experience Study - the largest most important study you have ever heard of - Began in an Obesity Clinic. From http://www.acestoohigh.com. Great website for everything ACES.

Pearce, J.C. (1977/1992). Magical Child. New York: Penguin Books.


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