In addition to her clinical practice and leadership of the Trauma Institute, Dr. Suzana E. Flores is a published author whose books have reached audiences far beyond the therapy room — bringing rigorous psychological insight to topics that affect everyday people’s lives.
Facehooked: How Facebook Affects Our Emotions, Relationships, and Lives
Published 2014 | Reputation Books
Written when Facebook had just crossed one billion users — and when psychologists were beginning to document a new category of complaints in their offices — Facehooked was a pioneering exploration of the psychological impact of social media on mental health, identity, and relationships.
Dr. Flores spent three years interviewing Facebook users of all ages, backgrounds, and demographics, exploring both the genuine benefits of social connection and the troubling psychological patterns the platform was producing. The result is a nuanced, clinically grounded examination of eight core problems most commonly associated with Facebook use, including:
- Self-esteem and social comparison
- Privacy and the performance of identity
- Emotional manipulation and envy
- Peer pressure and social conformity
- Stalking and boundary violations
- Relationship strain and jealousy
- Addiction and compulsive use patterns
- The distortion of friendship and community
For each problem, Dr. Flores provides practical, evidence-based tools for recognising unhealthy patterns and developing healthier relationships with social media. Facehooked received national and international media attention upon publication and remains remarkably relevant in the age of Instagram, TikTok, and an increasingly complex digital social landscape.
Available on Amazon and through major booksellers.
Untamed: The Psychology of Marvel’s Wolverine
Available now
A unique work that blends Dr. Flores’ clinical expertise in trauma, resilience, and identity with a deep engagement with one of popular culture’s most enduring figures. Wolverine — Marvel’s savage, brooding antihero — has captivated readers for over four decades. In Untamed, Dr. Flores asks: why?
Through the lens of clinical psychology, she traces Wolverine’s development from minor character to cultural icon, examining his enduring appeal as an allegory for trauma, PTSD, identity fragmentation, and the paradoxical relationship between violence and humanity. The book argues that Wolverine endures because he speaks to something universal in human experience: the struggle to survive what has shattered us, to find connection across the ruins of trust, and to discover — against all odds — that we are more than what was done to us.
Untamed is simultaneously a serious psychological analysis and an accessible, entertaining exploration of the character who may be popular culture’s most honest portrait of a trauma survivor.
Available on Amazon and through major booksellers.
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