The Body Keeps the Score, (Kolk) chapter 3 helped me to understand in a bit more depth what my counselor explained to me about post trauma. It describes what happens in the brain when a traumatic memory is triggered. Its as if it is actually happening in the present, with the left brain activity decreasing while danger signals are being sent from the amygdala. (That is my current layman's understanding anyway, feel free to leave a comment if you want to clarify it.)
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Trauma and Resilience: A handbook, (Schaefer) section 5 has some ways to manage traumatic stress.
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The Anxiety and Phobia workbook (Bourne) has a chapter on graded exposure/desensitization
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