Research Citations: The Evidence Base Behind This Work

Bessel van der Kolk, MD

Bessel van der Kolk, MD, psychiatrist and trauma researcher, founder of the Trauma Research Foundation, author of The Body Keeps the Score

• 1994 The body keeps the score: memory and the evolving psychobiology of posttraumatic stress
• 2014 The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Referenced in: Childhood Trauma: A Therapist’s Complete Guide to Recognition,… · Why You Feel Physically Exhausted After Visiting Your Family · Healing from a Borderline Parent: A Therapist’s Complete Guide · Why Do I Feel Responsible for Everyone Else’s Emotions? · 15 Signs of an Emotionally Immature Parent, And Why They’re So Hard… · Somatic Exercises for Trauma: 10 Tools That Work With Your Nervous… · The Dark Night of the Soul in Trauma Recovery: When Everything Falls… · The Golden Child and the Scapegoat: How Sibling Dynamics in… +30 more

Judith Lewis Herman, MD

Judith Herman, MD, psychiatrist, Harvard Medical School, author of Trauma and Recovery, pioneer of complex trauma and PTSD theory

• 1992 Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence, From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
• 1992 Complex PTSD: A syndrome in survivors of prolonged and repeated trauma

Referenced in: The Stages of Healing from Narcissistic Abuse: What to Expect on the… · Healing from a Relationship with a Borderline Partner: A Therapist’s… · 7 Hidden Signs You Were Raised by a Borderline Mother · How to Deal with a Covert Narcissist: Strategies That Actually Work · Signs of Covert Narcissism in a Partner You’ve Been with for Years · The Dark Night of the Soul in Trauma Recovery: When Everything Falls… · When Resilience Becomes Another Performance · Why Calm Feels Unsafe After Growing Up with Emotional Volatility +22 more

Vincent J. Felitti, MD and colleagues

Vincent J. Felitti, MD, internist, Kaiser Permanente, co-investigator of the ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) Study, landmark 1998 study linking childhood adversity to adult health outcomes

• 1998 Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults: The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study

Referenced in: Childhood Trauma: A Therapist’s Complete Guide to Recognition,… · 50 Quotes About Childhood Trauma to Remind You the Past Doesn’t Have… · The Stress Behind the Stress: Why Mental Health Is the Missing… · Relational Trauma Is a Longevity Variable: What the Research Actually… · Why Driven Women Undercharge, Overgive, and Still Feel Financially… · Why Am I So Tired Even Though My Life Is Good? · Why Do I Shut Down When Someone Needs Me? · Childhood Emotional Neglect in Driven Women: The Invisible Injury… +10 more

Marylène Cloitre, PhD and colleagues

Marylène Cloitre, PhD, clinical psychologist, NYU Langone Health / National Center for PTSD, developer of STAIR Narrative Therapy for complex PTSD

• 2010 A developmental, trauma-focused model of PTSD incorporating the STAIR protocol
• 2013 The ISTSS Expert Consensus Treatment Guidelines for Complex PTSD in Adults

Referenced in: Complex PTSD (C-PTSD): A Trauma Therapist’s Complete Guide · 50 Quotes About Childhood Trauma to Remind You the Past Doesn’t Have… · Eldest Daughter Syndrome: A Therapist’s Complete Guide · Am I a Covert Narcissist? An Honest Therapist’s Self-Assessment · Complex PTSD in Driven Women: A Therapist’s Complete Guide · Complex PTSD in driven women: Signs, Causes and Recovery · Trauma Bonds: What They Are, Why They Feel Like Love, and How to Heal · Overgiving With Money: When Generosity Is Really Fawning +5 more

Thanos Karatzias, PhD and colleagues

Thanos Karatzias, PhD, Professor of Mental Health, Edinburgh Napier University, leading researcher on ICD-11 Complex PTSD diagnosis and treatment

• 2017 Evidence of distinct profiles of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD) based on the new ICD-11 Trauma Questionnaire (ICD-TQ)
• 2021 Psychological interventions for ICD-11 complex PTSD symptoms

Referenced in: Complex PTSD (C-PTSD): A Trauma Therapist’s Complete Guide · Childhood Emotional Neglect in Driven Women: The Invisible Injury… · Complex PTSD in driven women: Signs, Causes and Recovery · The Fawn Response: A Complete Guide for Women Who Learned to Stay… · Trauma Bonds: What They Are, Why They Feel Like Love, and How to Heal · Relational Trauma: The Complete Therapist’s Guide for Driven Women · When the Pattern Moves Rooms: Why the Same Wound Shows Up Everywhere · The Course Pathway for Women Healing Relationship Trauma +1 more

Martha Stark, MD

Martha Stark, MD, psychiatrist, clinical faculty at Harvard Medical School, developer of the Stark Method of psychodynamic psychotherapy, author of Working with Resistance

• 2007 Working with Resistance

Referenced in: Signs of Covert Narcissism in a Partner You’ve Been with for Years · Covert Narcissism Is So Hard to Name Because It Trains You to Doubt… · Why You Blame Yourself After a Sociopath: The Shame Loop That Keeps… · How Sociopathic Relationships Train You to Doubt Your Perception · When Your Friends Don’t Understand What Happened: The Loneliness of… · Why “Just Move On” Is Clinically Wrong After Systematic Manipulation · From Sociopath to Narcissist to Borderline Parent: How to Understand…

Vanshika Kalia and Kathy Knauft

Vanshika Kalia and Kathy Knauft, researchers examining how emotion regulation strategies moderate the effects of adverse childhood experiences on health outcomes

• 2020 Emotion regulation strategies modulate the effect of adverse childhood experiences on perceived chronic stress with implications for cognitive flexibility

Referenced in: Trauma-Informed Executive Coaching for Women Who Look Successful and… · Relational Trauma in Leadership: Why the Boardroom Can Feel Like the… · Founder Burnout After Childhood Overfunctioning: When the Drive That… · The Equity Partner’s Emptiness: When Achievement Outruns Attachment… · One Mistake Away from Exile: Why Powerful Women Fear Being Exposed at… · Ambition After Trauma: When Success Becomes a Survival Strategy

Aaron T. Beck, MD and colleagues

Aaron T. Beck, MD (1921, 2021), University Professor Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania, founder of Cognitive Therapy (CT/CBT), developer of cognitive models of depression and anxiety

• 2011 Cognitive Therapy of Substance Abuse (updated CBT applications)
• 2015 Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Basics and Beyond (2nd ed.)

Referenced in: Scarcity After Wealth: Why Growing Up With Money Does Not Always… · How Sociopathic Relationships Train You to Doubt Your Perception · Why Leaving Was Not the End: The Psychological Aftercare Women… · The First Healthy Relationship After a Sociopath: Why Kindness Can… · The Professional Woman After a Sociopath: Reclaiming Judgment,… · Why “Just Move On” Is Clinically Wrong After Systematic Manipulation

Rebekah Adair-Russell, MS and colleagues

Rebekah Adair-Russell, MS, University of Texas at El Paso, researcher on trauma, mental illness, stigma, and reintegration among justice-involved women

• 2025 Trauma-related research publication (specific title unverified for 2025 anniewright.com citation)

Referenced in: How Sociopathic Relationships Train You to Doubt Your Perception · The First Healthy Relationship After a Sociopath: Why Kindness Can… · How to Tell Your Story After a Sociopath Without Feeling Foolish or… · The Professional Woman After a Sociopath: Reclaiming Judgment,… · Why “Just Move On” Is Clinically Wrong After Systematic Manipulation

Diana Fosha, PhD

Diana Fosha, PhD, founder and director of the AEDP Institute, developer of Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), author of The Transforming Power of Affect

• 2000 The Transforming Power of Affect: A Model for Accelerated Change

Referenced in: The Life That Did Not Happen: Grieving the Timeline You Thought You… · The Dark Night Is Not a Breakdown: A Trauma-Informed Map for Meaning… · The Grief of Outgrowing Your Old Life · The Woman Who Holds Everyone Together: What It Costs and How to Stop

Marsha M. Linehan, PhD, ABPP

Marsha M. Linehan, PhD, ABPP, Professor Emeritus, University of Washington, developer of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for borderline personality disorder

• 1993 Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder

Referenced in: Impacts of Being Raised by a Borderline Mother | Annie Wright, LMFT · Healing from a Relationship with a Borderline Partner: A Therapist’s… · Why Do Borderlines Hurt the Ones They Love? A Therapist’s Guide to… · 7 Hidden Signs You Were Raised by a Borderline Mother

Sandra L. Bloom, MD

Sandra L. Bloom, MD, psychiatrist, Associate Professor, Drexel University School of Public Health, creator of the Sanctuary Model for trauma-informed organizational change

• 2013 Restoring Sanctuary: A New Operating System for Trauma-Informed Systems of Care

Referenced in: Why You Blame Yourself After a Sociopath: The Shame Loop That Keeps… · How Sociopathic Relationships Train You to Doubt Your Perception · How to Tell Your Story After a Sociopath Without Feeling Foolish or… · When Your Friends Don’t Understand What Happened: The Loneliness of…

Sarah Dokkedahl, PhD and colleagues

Sarah Dokkedahl, PhD, researcher at University of Southern Denmark, Centre for Psychotraumatology, studying PTSD and complex PTSD trajectories in women shelter residents

• 2022 Can Women Shelters Help Reduce Symptoms of PTSD and C-PTSD? Trajectories of PTSD Symptom Development

Referenced in: Why Leaving Was Not the End: The Psychological Aftercare Women… · The First Healthy Relationship After a Sociopath: Why Kindness Can… · How to Tell Your Story After a Sociopath Without Feeling Foolish or… · Why “Just Move On” Is Clinically Wrong After Systematic Manipulation

Birgit Kleim, PhD and colleagues

Birgit Kleim, PhD, Professor of Experimental Psychopathology, University of Zurich, researcher on cognitive mechanisms in PTSD and cognitive therapy implementation

• 2014 Implementation of Cognitive Therapy for PTSD in routine clinical care: Effectiveness and moderators of outcome in a consecutive sample

Referenced in: Meaning-Making After Betrayal: How to Rebuild a Life That Still Feels… · The Life That Did Not Happen: Grieving the Timeline You Thought You… · I Can’t See My Future: When Trauma Collapses Imagination

Pete Walker, MA, MFT

Pete Walker, MA, MFT, psychotherapist and CPTSD survivor, author of Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving, clinician specializing in adult survivors of childhood trauma

• 2013 Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving, A Guide and Map for Recovering from Childhood Trauma

Referenced in: Healing from a Borderline Parent: A Therapist’s Complete Guide · 7 Hidden Signs You Were Raised by a Borderline Mother · Fawn Response in Children of Sociopathic Parents: When…

Natalie Simon, PhD and colleagues

Natalie Simon, PhD, Cardiff University, clinical researcher on PTSD and complex PTSD treatments including CBT and internet-delivered interventions

• 2024 Social support as a predictor of outcomes of cognitive behavioral therapy with a trauma focus delivered face-to-face and via guided internet-based self-help

Referenced in: Childhood Emotional Neglect in Driven Women: The Invisible Injury… · The Child Who Needed Nothing: How Self-Sufficiency Becomes a Survival… · Parentification and Leadership: Why Being the Little Adult Made You…

Francine Shapiro, PhD

Francine Shapiro, PhD (1948, 2019), psychologist, Emeritus Senior Research Fellow, Mental Research Institute, developer of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy

• 2018 Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy: Basic Principles, Protocols, and Procedures (3rd ed.)

Referenced in: EMDR Therapy: A Trauma Therapist’s Complete Guide to How It Works and… · EMDR Therapy for Women, A Complete Guide · Financial Anxiety Is a Trauma Response (A Therapist’s Complete Guide)

Franz Alexander, MD and Thomas M. French, MD

Franz Alexander, MD (1891, 1964) and Thomas M. French, MD, Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, who introduced the foundational concept of the 'corrective emotional experience' in psychoanalytic therapy

• 1946 Psychoanalytic Therapy: Principles and Application

Referenced in: So how does this whole therapy thing work? · Corrective Relational Experiencing: How the Therapeutic Relationship…

Andreas Maercker, PhD, MD and colleagues

Andreas Maercker, PhD, MD, Professor, University of Zurich, Chair of Psychopathology and Clinical Intervention, leading architect of ICD-11 PTSD and Complex PTSD diagnostic criteria

• 2022 Development of the new CPTSD diagnosis for ICD-11

Referenced in: Is Premium Trauma Therapy Worth It? A Clinically Honest Guide for… · The Cost of Not Healing: What Patterns Quietly Take From Your Life,… · Balanced After the Borderline: Genevieve and Imani’s Emotional…

Monnica T. Williams, PhD

Monnica T. Williams, PhD, Canada Research Chair, University of Ottawa, specialist in racial trauma, PTSD, and culturally adapted evidence-based treatments

• 2014 Cultural adaptations of prolonged exposure therapy for treatment and prevention of posttraumatic stress disorder in African Americans

Referenced in: The Enmeshed Mother-Daughter Relationship: When Closeness is Control · Emotional Manipulation: The Tactics That Work So Well Because You’d…

John Bowlby, MD

John Bowlby, MD, British psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, founder of Attachment Theory, author of the Attachment and Loss trilogy

• 1969 Attachment and Loss, Vol. 1: Attachment
• 1982 Attachment and Loss, Vol. 1: Attachment (2nd ed.)
• 1988 A Secure Base: Parent-Child Attachment and Healthy Human Development

Referenced in: Is your style of communication getting in the way of your… · What Therapists Look for in a Life Partner: Eight Qualities That… · Boundaries: A Therapist’s Complete Guide to Setting and Maintaining… · Why Do I Feel Lonely in My Relationship? · Married to an Emotionally Immature Partner: The Loneliness of the… · Married to a Covert Narcissist: The Loneliest Trap · The Coat on the Couch Phenomenon: The Somatic Marker of Earned Secure… · When Resilience Becomes Another Performance +8 more

Mary D. Salter Ainsworth, PhD

Mary D. Salter Ainsworth, PhD, developmental psychologist, University of Virginia, pioneer of attachment research, creator of the Strange Situation procedure, author of Patterns of Attachment

• 1978 Patterns of Attachment: A Psychological Study of the Strange Situation

Referenced in: Is your style of communication getting in the way of your… · The Three Stages of Romantic Love: A Therapist’s Complete Guide · The Enmeshed Mother-Daughter Relationship: When Closeness is Control · Why Do I Feel Lonely in My Relationship? · Married to an Emotionally Immature Partner: The Loneliness of the…

Sheri Madigan, PhD and colleagues

Sheri Madigan, PhD, developmental psychologist, University of Calgary, researcher on disorganized attachment and intergenerational transmission of attachment

• 2006 Unresolved states of mind, anomalous parental behavior, and disorganized attachment: a review and meta-analysis of a transmission gap

Referenced in: The Driven Woman’s Map of Relational Trauma: Dating, Money, Work,… · From Sociopath to Narcissist to Borderline Parent: How to Understand… · The Course Pathway for Mothers Breaking Intergenerational Trauma

Mary Main, PhD

Mary Main, PhD, developmental psychologist, Professor Emerita, UC Berkeley, researcher on disorganized/disoriented attachment patterns, developer of the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI)

• 1990 Parental responses to the reunion with the infant: Origins in the Adult Attachment Interview
• 1996 Introduction to the special section on attachment and psychopathology: Overview of the field of attachment

Referenced in: Afraid to Have Kids Because of Childhood Trauma · The Father Wound: A Trauma Therapist’s Complete Guide · Why Do I Push People Away When They Get Close? · Dating with CPTSD: What Trauma Does to Your Love Life and How to… · Raising Emotionally Healthy Children When You’re Still Healing… · When the Pattern Moves Rooms: Why the Same Wound Shows Up Everywhere

John M. Gottman, PhD

John M. Gottman, PhD, Professor Emeritus, University of Washington, co-founder of the Gottman Institute, leading couples therapy researcher, author of The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work

• 1999 The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work

Referenced in: The 5 Stages of a Relationship (That Nobody Tells You About the Hard… · How to Break the Anxious-Avoidant Cycle in Your Relationship: A… · The Final Ultimatum: When You Can No Longer Carry the Marriage Alone

Peter Fonagy, OBE, FBA, PhD, FMedSci

Peter Fonagy, OBE, FBA, PhD, Chief Executive of the Anna Freud National Centre, Professor of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, UCL, developer of Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT)

• 2008 Affect Regulation, Mentalization, and the Development of the Self
• 2015 The mentalizing approach to psychopathology: State of the art and future directions

Referenced in: Co-Parenting with a Borderline Ex: A Therapist’s Guide · From Sociopath to Narcissist to Borderline Parent: How to Understand…

Donald W. Winnicott, MD

Donald W. Winnicott, MD (1896, 1971), British pediatrician and psychoanalyst, originator of concepts of the 'holding environment,' 'good-enough mother,' and 'transitional objects'

• 1965 The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment
• 1971 Playing and Reality

Referenced in: 15 Signs of an Emotionally Immature Parent, And Why They’re So Hard… · The House of Life: A Clinical Framework for Understanding Why Your…

Mario Mikulincer, PhD and Phillip R. Shaver, PhD

Mario Mikulincer, PhD, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Reichman University, Israel, and Phillip R. Shaver, PhD, Professor Emeritus, UC Davis, leading researchers on adult attachment styles

• 2007 Attachment in Adulthood: Structure, Dynamics, and Change

Referenced in: Delegation Anxiety: When Trusting Others Feels Impossible · Signs My Partner Has Avoidant Attachment, And What to Do About It

Susan M. Johnson, EdD and colleagues

Susan M. Johnson, EdD, clinical psychologist, Professor Emeritus, University of Ottawa, developer of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for couples

• 1999 The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Creating Connection
• 2022 Changes in Relationship-Specific Attachment in Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy

Referenced in: The 8 Best Books on Attachment Theory for Adults · How to Break the Anxious-Avoidant Cycle in Your Relationship: A… · The Financial Playbook for Leaving a Narcissist: A Therapist’s…

Madison Smith, MS and Susan C. South, PhD

Madison Smith, MS and Susan C. South, PhD, Purdue University, researchers on the association between romantic attachment style and borderline personality pathology

• 2020 Romantic attachment style and borderline personality pathology: A meta-analysis

Referenced in: The Life That Did Not Happen: Grieving the Timeline You Thought You… · Hope After Relational Trauma: How It Returns Without Forcing It · The Fawn Response: A Complete Guide for Women Who Learned to Stay… · I Can’t See My Future: When Trauma Collapses Imagination · Hope After Relational Trauma: How It Returns · Why Unavailable People Feel Familiar to Driven Women · The First Calm Relationship After Relational Trauma: A Therapist’s…

Stephen W. Porges, PhD

Stephen W. Porges, PhD, neuroscientist, Distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University and Kinsey Institute, originator of Polyvagal Theory

• 2001 The polyvagal theory: phylogenetic substrates of a social nervous system
• 2007 The polyvagal perspective
• 2011 The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-Regulation
• 2017 The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe

Referenced in: Your Emotional First Aid Kit: Tools for Driven Women · Told You’re ‘Too Much’? A Therapist’s Guide to Reclaiming What You’ve… · Trauma-Informed Goal Setting: Because Your Ambition Deserves Better… · Why Do I Feel Traumatized by My Clients’ Stories? Understanding… · Why You Feel Physically Exhausted After Visiting Your Family · The Empath and the Narcissist: Why You Were Chosen (And How to Break… · Why Do Borderlines Hurt the Ones They Love? A Therapist’s Guide to… · 7 Hidden Signs You Were Raised by a Borderline Mother +34 more

Deb Dana, LCSW

Deb Dana, LCSW, licensed clinical social worker, clinician and teacher specializing in applying Polyvagal Theory to clinical practice, author of The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy

• 2018 The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation

Referenced in: Somatic Exercises for Trauma: 10 Tools That Work With Your Nervous… · Why Chemistry Feels Like Proof When Your Nervous System Recognizes… · How Sociopathic Relationships Train You to Doubt Your Perception · How to Tell Your Story After a Sociopath Without Feeling Foolish or… · When Your Friends Don’t Understand What Happened: The Loneliness of… · Why “Just Move On” Is Clinically Wrong After Systematic Manipulation · Mare of Easttown: A Trauma Therapist on Grief, Guilt, and the Cost of… · Tiny Beautiful Things: Cheryl Strayed on Grief, Mothers, and Healing +4 more

Daniel J. Siegel, MD

Daniel J. Siegel, MD, clinical professor of psychiatry, UCLA School of Medicine, founding editor of the Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology, author of The Developing Mind

• 1999 The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are
• 2010 Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation
• 2012 The Developing Mind (2nd ed.)

Referenced in: Childhood Trauma: A Therapist’s Complete Guide to Recognition,… · Co-Parenting with a Borderline Ex: A Therapist’s Guide · How to Deal with a Covert Narcissist: Strategies That Actually Work · Somatic Exercises for Trauma: 10 Tools That Work With Your Nervous… · When Your Pattern Is About Dating, Family, Money, Parenting, and Work… · The Course Pathway for Mothers Breaking Intergenerational Trauma · How to Break Intergenerational Trauma Without Making Yourself the… · Building Holidays of Your Own: A Therapist’s Permission Slip

Allan N. Schore, PhD

Allan N. Schore, PhD, clinical psychologist, Adjunct Professor, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, leading theorist of right brain affect regulation and the neuroscience of attachment

• 2001 The effects of early relational trauma on right brain development, affect regulation, and infant mental health
• 2003 Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self
• 2012 The Science of the Art of Psychotherapy

Referenced in: Told You’re ‘Too Much’? A Therapist’s Guide to Reclaiming What You’ve… · Healing from a Borderline Parent: A Therapist’s Complete Guide · Why Do Borderlines Hurt the Ones They Love? A Therapist’s Guide to… · The Life That Did Not Happen: Grieving the Timeline You Thought You… · Attachment Wounds: How They Shape Love, Work, Parenting, and Money · The 10 Patterns That Keep Driven Women Stuck

Bruce S. McEwen, PhD

Bruce S. McEwen, PhD (1938, 2020), neuroendocrinologist, Rockefeller University, leading researcher on stress, brain plasticity, and allostatic load

• 1998 Stress, adaptation, and disease: Allostasis and allostatic load
• 2008 Central effects of stress hormones in health and disease: Understanding the protective and damaging effects of stress and stress mediators

Referenced in: Childhood Trauma: A Therapist’s Complete Guide to Recognition,… · Relational Trauma Is a Longevity Variable: What the Research Actually… · Overgiving With Money: When Generosity Is Really Fawning · Scarcity After Wealth: Why Growing Up With Money Does Not Always… · Spending Shame: Why Buying What You Need Can Feel Dangerous

Martin H. Teicher, MD, PhD and colleagues

Martin H. Teicher, MD, PhD, child and adolescent psychiatrist, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital, researcher on neurobiological effects of childhood maltreatment

• 2003 The neurobiological consequences of early stress and childhood maltreatment
• 2016 The effects of childhood maltreatment on brain structure, function and connectivity

Referenced in: Childhood Trauma: A Therapist’s Complete Guide to Recognition,… · Why Calm Feels Unsafe After Growing Up with Emotional Volatility · Why Do I Shut Down When Someone Needs Me? · The Course Pathway for Women Healing Family-of-Origin Trauma · The Course Pathway for Women Healing Overfunctioning, Money, and…

Bonnie Badenoch, PhD, LMFT

Bonnie Badenoch, PhD, LMFT, therapist and educator, founder of Nurturing the Heart with the Brain in Mind, author of Being a Brain-Wise Therapist, applying interpersonal neurobiology to clinical practice

• 2008 Being a Brain-Wise Therapist: A Practical Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology
• 2018 The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships

Referenced in: The Dark Night Is Not a Breakdown: A Trauma-Informed Map for Meaning… · Covert Narcissism Is So Hard to Name Because It Trains You to Doubt… · The Woman Who Holds Everyone Together: What It Costs and How to Stop

Martin H. Teicher, MD, PhD and Jacqueline A. Samson, PhD

Martin H. Teicher, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School / McLean Hospital, and Jacqueline A. Samson, PhD, researchers on neural effects of childhood maltreatment

• 2016 Annual Research Review: Enduring neurobiological effects of childhood abuse and neglect

Referenced in: Childhood Trauma: A Therapist’s Complete Guide to Recognition,… · Why Calm Feels Unsafe After Growing Up with Emotional Volatility · Why Do I Shut Down When Someone Needs Me? · The Course Pathway for Women Healing Family-of-Origin Trauma · The Course Pathway for Women Healing Overfunctioning, Money, and…

Pat Ogden, PhD

Pat Ogden, PhD, founder of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, somatic trauma therapist and educator, author of Trauma and the Body

• 2006 Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy
• 2015 Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment

Referenced in: Somatic Exercises for Trauma: 10 Tools That Work With Your Nervous… · Why Calm Feels Unsafe After Growing Up with Emotional Volatility · Why Do I Shut Down When Someone Needs Me? · The 10 Patterns That Keep Driven Women Stuck · The Woman Who Holds Everyone Together: What It Costs and How to Stop · Why Chemistry Feels Like Proof When Your Nervous System Recognizes… · Mare of Easttown: A Trauma Therapist on Grief, Guilt, and the Cost of… · Tiny Beautiful Things: Cheryl Strayed on Grief, Mothers, and Healing +1 more

Peter A. Levine, PhD

Peter A. Levine, PhD, psychobiologist and somatic therapist, developer of Somatic Experiencing, founder of the Foundation for Human Enrichment (Ergos Institute), author of Waking the Tiger

• 1997 Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
• 2010 In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness

Referenced in: Childhood Trauma: A Therapist’s Complete Guide to Recognition,… · Why You Feel Physically Exhausted After Visiting Your Family · Somatic Exercises for Trauma: 10 Tools That Work With Your Nervous… · Why Driven Women Are the Hardest Nervous Systems to Heal · Why “Just Move On” Is Clinically Wrong After Systematic Manipulation

Danny Brom, PhD and colleagues

Danny Brom, PhD, Founder and Director, Israel Center for the Treatment of Psychotrauma (ICTP), Jerusalem, leading researcher on Somatic Experiencing as a treatment for PTSD

• 2017 Somatic Experiencing for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Randomized Controlled Outcome Study

Referenced in: Therapy for Driven Women Who Look Fine and Feel Exhausted · The Therapy Client Who Has Already Read Every Book

Janina Fisher, PhD

Janina Fisher, PhD, licensed clinical psychologist, trauma therapist, faculty at Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors

• 2017 Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation

Referenced in: The Dark Night of the Soul in Trauma Recovery: When Everything Falls… · The Golden Child and the Scapegoat: How Sibling Dynamics in… · Why Calm Feels Unsafe After Growing Up with Emotional Volatility · Why Do I Shut Down When Someone Needs Me? · Why Do I Feel Lonely in a Life I Worked So Hard to Build? · Overgiving With Money: When Generosity Is Really Fawning · Scarcity After Wealth: Why Growing Up With Money Does Not Always… · Spending Shame: Why Buying What You Need Can Feel Dangerous +15 more

Richard C. Schwartz, PhD

Richard C. Schwartz, PhD, family therapist, developer and founder of Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, Adjunct Faculty, Harvard Medical School

• 1995 Internal Family Systems Therapy
• 2021 No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

Referenced in: The Parentified Child: When You Had to Grow Up Too Fast · Why Do I Feel Lonely in My Relationship? · The Course Pathway for Mothers Breaking Intergenerational Trauma

Jennifer J. Freyd, PhD

Jennifer J. Freyd, PhD, psychologist, Professor Emerita, University of Oregon, originator of Betrayal Trauma Theory

• 1994 Betrayal trauma: Traumatic amnesia as an adaptive response to childhood abuse
• 1996 Betrayal Trauma: The Logic of Forgetting Childhood Abuse
• 2013 Institutional Betrayal and Institutional Courage

Referenced in: Betrayal Trauma: A Trauma Therapist’s Complete Guide · Meaning-Making After Betrayal: How to Rebuild a Life That Still Feels… · The Life That Did Not Happen: Grieving the Timeline You Thought You… · The Dark Night Is Not a Breakdown: A Trauma-Informed Map for Meaning… · The Grief of Outgrowing Your Old Life · Trauma Bonds: What They Are, Why They Feel Like Love, and How to Heal · Covert Narcissism Is So Hard to Name Because It Trains You to Doubt… · Why You Blame Yourself After a Sociopath: The Shame Loop That Keeps… +10 more

Carly Parnitzke Smith and Jennifer J. Freyd, PhD

Carly Parnitzke Smith and Jennifer J. Freyd, PhD, researchers at University of Oregon, authors of foundational work on institutional betrayal trauma

• 2014 Institutional betrayal

Referenced in: The Life That Did Not Happen: Grieving the Timeline You Thought You… · Hope After Relational Trauma: How It Returns Without Forcing It · The Fawn Response: A Complete Guide for Women Who Learned to Stay… · I Can’t See My Future: When Trauma Collapses Imagination · Hope After Relational Trauma: How It Returns · Why Unavailable People Feel Familiar to Driven Women · The First Calm Relationship After Relational Trauma: A Therapist’s…

Gregory J. Jurkovic, PhD

Gregory J. Jurkovic, PhD, clinical psychologist, Georgia State University, author of Lost Childhoods: The Plight of the Parentified Child

• 1997 Lost Childhoods: The Plight of the Parentified Child

Referenced in: The Parentified Child: When You Had to Grow Up Too Fast · Healing from a Borderline Parent: A Therapist’s Complete Guide · Why Do I Feel Responsible for Everyone Else’s Emotions? · The Histrionic Mother: When Your Mother’s Need for Attention Consumed… · Eldest Daughter Syndrome: A Therapist’s Complete Guide

Lisa M. Hooper, PhD and colleagues

Lisa M. Hooper, PhD, Professor, University of Alabama, researcher on parentification, childhood parentification measures, and its relation to adult psychopathology

• 2011 Characterizing the magnitude of the relation between self-reported childhood parentification and adult psychopathology: a meta-analysis

Referenced in: The Parentified Child: When You Had to Grow Up Too Fast · Healing from a Borderline Parent: A Therapist’s Complete Guide · How Do I Set Limits at Work When I’m the Person Everyone Relies On? · Parentification: A Therapist’s Guide | Annie Wright, LMFT · The Glass Castle: Jeannette Walls on Loving a Father You Cannot Save

Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD

Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD, clinical psychologist in private practice, author of Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents

• 2015 Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

Referenced in: 15 Signs of an Emotionally Immature Parent, And Why They’re So Hard… · Building Holidays of Your Own: A Therapist’s Permission Slip

Monica McGoldrick, MSW, PhD

Monica McGoldrick, MSW, PhD, family therapist, Director of the Multicultural Family Institute, Rutgers University, pioneer of genogram-based family systems therapy

• 1999 Genograms: Assessment and Intervention (2nd ed.)
• 2011 The Genogram Journey: Reconnecting with Your Family

Referenced in: Overgiving With Money: When Generosity Is Really Fawning · Scarcity After Wealth: Why Growing Up With Money Does Not Always… · Spending Shame: Why Buying What You Need Can Feel Dangerous

Lisa M. Hooper, PhD

Lisa M. Hooper, PhD, Professor, University of Alabama, researcher on parentification, the Parentification Questionnaire, and attachment theory in family systems

• 2007 Expanding the discussion regarding parentification and its varied outcomes: Implications for mental health research and practice

Referenced in: The Parentified Child: When You Had to Grow Up Too Fast · Healing from a Borderline Parent: A Therapist’s Complete Guide · How Do I Set Limits at Work When I’m the Person Everyone Relies On? · Parentification: A Therapist’s Guide | Annie Wright, LMFT · The Glass Castle: Jeannette Walls on Loving a Father You Cannot Save

Frank G. Rice, PhD and Liu

Researchers studying parentification and satisfaction of psychological needs in romantic relationships (2020)

• 2020 Parentification and satisfaction of psychological needs in romantic relationships: The mediating role of relational attitudes

Referenced in: Founder Burnout After Childhood Overfunctioning: When the Drive That… · Ambition After Trauma: When Success Becomes a Survival Strategy

Martina Vignando and Boris Bizumic, PhD

Martina Vignando and Boris Bizumic, PhD, researchers, Australian National University, studying parental narcissism and its psychological effects on children

• 2023 Parental Narcissism Leads to Anxiety and Depression in Children via Scapegoating

Referenced in: The Narcissistic Family System: Why You Became So Good at Reading the… · Adult Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers: The Private Cost of Being… · The Scapegoat Daughter: Why You Still Feel Guilty for Telling the…

Karyl McBride, PhD, LMFT

Karyl McBride, PhD, LMFT, licensed therapist, author of Will I Ever Be Good Enough? Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers

• 2008 Will I Ever Be Good Enough? Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers

Referenced in: Tiny Beautiful Things: Cheryl Strayed on Grief, Mothers, and Healing · The Cycle Breaker’s Library: Pop Culture for People Healing…

Donald G. Dutton, PhD and Susan L. Painter, PhD

Donald G. Dutton, PhD, Professor, University of British Columbia, and Susan L. Painter, PhD, researchers who developed traumatic bonding theory to explain emotional attachment in abusive relationships

• 1981 Traumatic Bonding: The Development of Emotional Attachments in Battered Women and Other Relationships of Intermittent Abuse

Referenced in: The Empath and the Narcissist: Why You Were Chosen (And How to Break… · ASPD in Women: The Diagnosis Nobody Expects · Are Covert Narcissists Hypersexual? Sexual Coercion Patterns Most… · Why Healthy Relationships Feel Boring After Chaos: A Therapist’s… · Narcissistic Abuse PTSD: When the Relationship Leaves a Trauma…

Donald G. Dutton, PhD

Donald G. Dutton, PhD, Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia, leading researcher on intimate partner violence, abusive personalities, and traumatic bonding

• 2012 The Abusive Personality: Violence and Control in Intimate Relationships (2nd ed.)

Referenced in: The Empath and the Narcissist: Why You Were Chosen (And How to Break… · ASPD in Women: The Diagnosis Nobody Expects · Are Covert Narcissists Hypersexual? Sexual Coercion Patterns Most… · Why Healthy Relationships Feel Boring After Chaos: A Therapist’s… · Narcissistic Abuse PTSD: When the Relationship Leaves a Trauma…

Aaron L. Pincus, PhD and Mark R. Lukowitsky, PhD

Aaron L. Pincus, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Penn State University, and Mark R. Lukowitsky, PhD, researchers on pathological narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder

• 2010 Pathological Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Referenced in: The Covert Narcissist Discard: Why the Ending Feels So Confusing · What Is Covert Narcissism and Why Is It So Hard to Identify?

María A. Pico-Alfonso, PhD

María A. Pico-Alfonso, PhD, researcher at the University of Valencia, Spain, studying intimate partner violence and its relationship to PTSD in abused women

• 2005 Psychological intimate partner violence: the major predictor of posttraumatic stress disorder in abused women

Referenced in: Why Leaving Was Not the End: The Psychological Aftercare Women… · Why “Just Move On” Is Clinically Wrong After Systematic Manipulation

Julia C. Babcock, PhD and colleagues

Julia C. Babcock, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Houston, researcher on intimate partner violence, batterer intervention programs, and meta-analyses of their effectiveness

• 2007 Does batterers' treatment work? A meta-analytic review of domestic violence treatment (updated/extended work)

Referenced in: Boundaries: A Therapist’s Complete Guide to Setting and Maintaining… · Why “Just Move On” Is Clinically Wrong After Systematic Manipulation · The Complete Guide to On-Call Burnout for Women in Tech: What the… · Women UX Designers in Tech: When Your Work Is Beautiful and Invisible…

Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD

Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD, psychologist, Professor Emeritus, University of Memphis, Director of the Portland Institute for Loss and Transition, leading theorist of meaning reconstruction in grief

• 2019 Meaning, Mourning, and the Mirror of Loss: Narrative Approaches to Bereavement

Referenced in: When Resilience Becomes Another Performance · Meaning-Making After Betrayal: How to Rebuild a Life That Still Feels… · The Life That Did Not Happen: Grieving the Timeline You Thought You… · The Dark Night Is Not a Breakdown: A Trauma-Informed Map for Meaning… · Hope After Relational Trauma: How It Returns Without Forcing It · The Grief of Outgrowing Your Old Life · I Can’t See My Future: When Trauma Collapses Imagination · Hope After Relational Trauma: How It Returns

Pauline Boss, PhD

Pauline Boss, PhD, Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota, developer of Ambiguous Loss Theory, author of Ambiguous Loss

• 1999 Ambiguous Loss: Learning to Live with Unresolved Grief
• 2010 The trauma and complicated grief of ambiguous loss

Referenced in: Meaning-Making After Betrayal: How to Rebuild a Life That Still Feels… · The Life That Did Not Happen: Grieving the Timeline You Thought You… · The Dark Night Is Not a Breakdown: A Trauma-Informed Map for Meaning… · The Grief of Outgrowing Your Old Life · I Can’t See My Future: When Trauma Collapses Imagination

Frank W. Bond, PhD

Frank W. Bond, PhD, Professor, Goldsmiths, University of London, researcher on psychological flexibility, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in organizational and clinical contexts

• 1997 Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in stress management and clinical contexts (early ACT work)

Referenced in: The Complete Guide to Trauma Bonding: Understanding and Breaking Free… · The Empath and the Sociopath: Why This Dynamic Is So Addictive · Intermittent Reinforcement in Relationships: The Mechanism Behind Why… · What Healthy Love Actually Feels Like After a Trauma Bond · The Narcissist Discard: Why It Happens, What It Does to Your Nervous…

Viktor E. Frankl, MD, PhD

Viktor E. Frankl, MD, PhD (1905, 1997), Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor, founder of Logotherapy and Existential Analysis, author of Man's Search for Meaning

• 1946 Man's Search for Meaning (Ein Psycholog erlebt das Konzentrationslager)

Referenced in: When Resilience Becomes Another Performance · Meaning-Making After Betrayal: How to Rebuild a Life That Still Feels…

Julianne Holt-Lunstad, PhD

Julianne Holt-Lunstad, PhD, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Brigham Young University, leading researcher on social connection, loneliness, and mortality

• 2010 Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta-analytic Review

Referenced in: The Stress Behind the Stress: Why Mental Health Is the Missing… · Relational Trauma Is a Longevity Variable: What the Research Actually… · Silicon Valley Female Executive Loneliness: The Cost of Altitude No…

Richard G. Tedeschi, PhD and Lawrence G. Calhoun, PhD

Richard G. Tedeschi, PhD and Lawrence G. Calhoun, PhD, professors of psychology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, originators of Post-Traumatic Growth Theory

• 2004 Posttraumatic Growth: Conceptual Foundations and Empirical Evidence

Referenced in: The Five Domains of Post-Traumatic Growth: A Clinical Deep Dive · Post-Traumatic Growth in Driven Women: Why Your Healing Doesn’t Look…

Barbara L. Fredrickson, PhD

Barbara L. Fredrickson, PhD, Kenan Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, developer of the Broaden-and-Build Theory of positive emotions

• 2001 The role of positive emotions in positive psychology: The broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions

Referenced in: 101 Reasons It Will All Be Okay · How Do I Know What Brings Me Joy?

Brené Brown, PhD, LMSW

Brené Brown, PhD, LMSW, Professor, University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, researcher on shame, vulnerability, courage, and connection, author of Daring Greatly

• 2008 I Thought It Was Just Me (But It Isn't): Making the Journey from 'What Will People Think?' to 'I Am Enough'
• 2012 Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Referenced in: The Narcissistic Sibling: How to Protect Yourself When Your Brother… · I Can’t See My Future: When Trauma Collapses Imagination · How to Tell Your Story After a Sociopath Without Feeling Foolish or…

Anthony M. Grant, PhD and colleagues

Anthony M. Grant, PhD, Coaching Psychology Unit, University of Sydney, founder of evidence-based coaching psychology, researcher on self-reflection and psychological wellbeing

• 2004 Developmental coaching: Building personal and organisational resilience (early coaching psychology work)

Referenced in: Why Do Borderlines Hurt the Ones They Love? A Therapist’s Guide to… · ASPD in Women: The Diagnosis Nobody Expects

Mary Pipher, PhD

Mary Pipher, PhD, clinical psychologist in private practice, author of Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls

• 1994 Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls

Referenced in: The Five Survival Strategies of Driven Women: Fawn, Freeze,… · The Course Pathway for Mothers Breaking Intergenerational Trauma