Bessel Van Der Kolk's _The Body Keeps The Score_. I had an extremely abusive childhood environment and mostly blocked it out through my adult years but had man

Bessel Van Der Kolk's _The Body Keeps The Score_. I had an extremely abusive childhood environment and mostly blocked it out through my adult years but had many obvious self-descructive, anti-social, self-sabotaging and socially untenable behaviour patterns that I couldn't understand or shake. That book gave me the understanding of my own development and, furthermore, an idea of the tools that I could use to finally stand tall as a member of the human race.