Recommended Reading
Accidental Impacts
Here are some books that I have found to be helpful. Please contact me with your own
recommendations. I will keep adding to this list.
Coping with the Emotional Maelstrom – Trauma & Stress
Dark Nights of the Soul: A Guide to Finding Your Way Through Life’s Ordeals, by Thomas
Moore, Gotham Books, 2004.
The Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Sourcebook: A Guide to Healing, Recovery, and
Growth, by Glenn R. Schiraldi, Lowell House, 2000 (Technical, written for a professional
audience).
Life After Trauma: A Workbook for Healing, by Dena Rosenbloom and Mary Beth
Williams, The Guilford Press, 1999.
Wrestling with Responsibility
Common Values, by Sissela Bok, University of Missouri Press, 1995.
Fire in the Soul: A New Psychology of Spiritual Optimism, by Joan Borysenko, Warner
Books, 1993. [Also helpful for coping and for growth]
Man's Search for Meaning, by Victor Frankl, Pocket Books, 1963.
When Bad Things Happen to Good People, by Harold S. Kushner, Avon Books, 1981.
Imperfect Control: Our Lifelong Struggles with Power and Surrender, by Judith Viorst,
Simon & Schuster, 1999.
Transforming Trauma to Growth
Facilitating Posttraumatic Growth: A Clinician's Guide, by Lawrence G. Calhoun and
Richard G. Tedeschi, Laurence Erlbaum Associates, 1999 (Technical, written for a
professional audience).
Thriving Through Crisis: Turn Tragedy and Trauma into Growth and Change, by Bill
O'Hanlon, The Berkley Publishing Group, 2004.
What doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger: Turning Bad Breaks Into Blessings, by Maxine
Schnall, Perseus Publishing, 2002.
Experiences of Other CADI’s
Fatal Moments: The tragedy of the Accidental Killer, by Gwendolyn Gilliam and Barbara
Chesser, Lexington Books, 1991.
Perpetration-Induced Traumatic Stress: The Psychological Consequences of Killing, by
Rachel M. MacNair, Praeger Press, 2002 (Technical, written for a professional audience)
Fatal Error: Confessions of an Accidental Killer, by Thomas Munch-Petersen, Short
Books, 2003.
The Blessing: A Memoir, by Gregory Orr, Council Oak Books, 2002.
For Family & Friends
Healing Conversations: What to Say When You Don’t Know What to Say, by Nance
Guilmartin, Jossey-Bass, 2002.
Also Relevant
After the Crash, by Edward B. Blanchard and Edward J. Hickling, American Psychological
Association, 2003 (Technical, written for a professional audience).
