Stages of Alchemy:

• Brown, S., Rodwin, A. H., & Munson, M. R. (2025). Multi-systemic trauma and regulation: Re-centering how to be with clients. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 35(2), 245-262.

• Siegel, D. J. (2009). Mindful awareness, mindsight, and neural integration. The Humanistic Psychologist, 37(2), 137-158.

• Halberstadt, J., & Wilson, T. (2008). Reflections on conscious reflection: Mechanisms of impairment by reasons analysis. Reasoning: Studies of human inference and its foundations, 548-565.

• Segal, O., Sher, H., Aderka, I. M., & Weinbach, N. (2023). Does acceptance lead to change? Training in radical acceptance improves implementation of cognitive reappraisal. Behaviour research and therapy, 164, 104303.

 

Wounded Healers:

• Crusalis, B.S. (2014). Wounded Healer, The. In: Leeming, D.A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion (2nd ed.). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6086-2_852

• Mackay, T., (2023). Lived experience in social work: An underutilised expertise, The British Journal of Social Work, 53(3),1833–1840. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcad028

• Manson J.L, (2019). The wounded healer: A phenomenological study of the experiences of           counselors-in-training with complex trauma histories [Doctoral dissertation, University   of Northern Colorado].

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Trauma:

• American Psychiatric Association. (2022). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.) doi.org/10.1176/appi.books.9780890425787

• Berntsen, D., & Rubin, D. C. (2006). The centrality of event scale: A measure of integrating a trauma into one's identity and its relation to post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 44(2), 219-231. https://doi.org/
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• Cook, J. M., Newman, E., & Simiola, V. (2019). Trauma training: Competencies, initiatives, and resources. Psychotherapy, 56(3), 409–421. https://doi.org/10.1037/pst0000233

• Perrotta G (2019) Psychological trauma: definition, clinical contexts, neural correlations and therapeutic approaches. Current Research in Psychiatry Brain Disorders, (01), 1-6. CRPBD-100006​

Neurobiology of Trauma:

• Davidson, R. J., & McEwen, B. S. (2012). Social influences on neuroplasticity: stress and interventions to promote well-being. Nature neuroscience, 15(5), 689–695. https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.3093

• Kaul, D., Schwab, S. G., Mechawar, N., & Matosin, N. (2021). How stress physically re-shapes the brain: Impact on brain cell shapes, numbers and connections in psychiatric disorders. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 124, 193-215.

• Mateos-Aparicio, P., & Rodríguez-Moreno, A. (2019). The Impact of Studying Brain Plasticity. Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 13, 66. https://doi.org/10.3389/fncel.2019.00066

• Shin, L. M., & Handwerger, K. (2009). Is posttraumatic stress disorder a stress‐induced fear circuitry disorder?. Journal of traumatic stress, 22(5), 409-415.

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Secondary Traumatic Stress & Vicarious Trauma

• Ali, D. A., Figley, C. R., Tedeschi, R. G., Galarneau, D., & Amara, S. (2023). Shared trauma, resilience, and growth: A roadmap toward transcultural conceptualization. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 15(1), 45-55. https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0001044

• Branson, D. C. (2019). Vicarious trauma, themes in research, and terminology: A review of literature. Traumatology, 25(1), 2–10. https://doi.org/10.1037/trm0000161

• Bride, B. E., Robinson, M. M., Yegidis, B., & Figley, C. R. (2004). Development and validation of the secondary traumatic stress scale. Research on social work practice, 14(1), 27-35.

• Miller, B. C. (2022). Reducing secondary traumatic stress: Skills for sustaining a career in the helping professions. Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group.

• Miller, B. C. (2025). Reducing secondary traumatic stress: Skills for sustaining a career in the helping professions. Taylor & Francis.

• Velasco, J., Sanmartin, F. J., Gálvez-Lara, M., Cuadrado, F., & Moriana, J. A. (2023). Psychological effects of professional exposure to trauma and human suffering: systematic review and meta-analysis. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 24(3), 1656-1676. https://doi.org/10.1177/1524838022107

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Self-Care:

• Posluns, K., & Gall, T. L. (2020). Dear Mental Health Practitioners, Take Care of Yourselves: a Literature Review on Self-Care. International journal for the advancement of counseling, 42(1), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10447-019-09382-w

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Resilience:

• Melaki, E., & Stavrou, P.-D. (2023). Re-exploring the vicarious posttraumatic growth and trauma: A comparison study between private therapists and therapists in nonprofit organizations treating trauma survivors. Traumatology, 29(1), 27–35. https://doi.org/10.1037/trm0000378

• Michalchuk, S., & Martin, S. L. (2019). Vicarious resilience and growth in psychologists who work with trauma survivors: An interpretive phenomenological analysis. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 50(3), 145–154. https://doi.org/10.1037/pro0000212

• Seery, M. D., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2010). Whatever does not kill us: Cumulative lifetime adversity, vulnerability, and resilience. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99(6), 1025–1041. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0021344

• Tedeschi, R. G., & Calhoun, L. G. (2004). Posttraumatic growth: Conceptual foundations and empirical evidence. Psychological Inquiry, 15(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1207/
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• Tsai, J., Harpaz-Rotem, I., Pietrzak, R. H., & Southwick, S. M. (2017). Trauma resiliency and posttraumatic growth. In S. N. Gold (Ed.), APA handbook of trauma psychology: Trauma practice (pp. 89–113). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000020-005

Alchemy:

• Bobory, D. (2020). Chymistry (Alchemy/Chemistry). Jalobeanu & Wolfe (Eds.)(2020), 1-6.

• Chalupa, R., Nesměrák, K. Analytical chemistry reveals secrets of alchemy. Monatsh Chem 152, 1019–1032 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00706-021-02813-8

• Coelho, P. (1998). The alchemist. [10th anniversary ed.]. HarperSanFrancisco.

• Crellin, C. (2021). Alchemy and individuation. In The Plural Turn in Jungian and Post-Jungian Studies (pp. 100-112). Routledge.

• Davis, J. Alchemy and Transformation, East and West: A Cross-cultural Analysis of Jungian Psychology and Tibetan Tantra.

• Philosophers stone

• Forster, R. (2020). Reaching the Goal of Alchemy-or: What Happens When You Finally Have Created the Philosophers' Stone?. Studia Humana, 9(1).

• Simon, Jonathan (2021). The philosophers’ stone. Metascience 30 (2):173-174. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-021-00669-6