Well before you even look into any resources, I think when you imagine yourself saying your name to another person, or expressing yourself, what do you feel? For me I feel unresolved energy/tension, and potential. I feel confliction about who I am. Your name is like a container for everything you associate with being yourself. And everything inside that container is what you believe is you. This container with its contents inside has a large effect on our life, depending on how we manage, view, and process it. Our brains stop us from speaking because we have an ego. The ego regulates our moves in the social sphere. If stuttering wasn’t very identity related, then why so many of us not stutter when we speak in an accent? Or speak by ourself? I think it gets deeper than this, but the initial trigger of stuttering I believe is unresolved potential. Energy that we don’t know what to do with, so we just hold it back until we can deem we have a safe way to expend it. But as far as books, “Redefining Stuttering” by John Harrison has been very helpful for me. Find it for free on freestutteringbooks.com And “Beyond Stammering: The McGuire Program for getting Good at the Sport of Speaking” are both great books that at the very least, very strongly imply that stuttering is largely an identity issue.