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Respark: Igniting Hope and Joy After Trauma and Depression

How can we respark joy and hope after despondency, numbness or trauma? Acclaimed psychotherapist and trauma expert, Graham Music, in his sixth book, distils decades of experience to deliver a roadmap... (more)

Resilience and Survival: Understanding and Healing Intergenerational Trauma

by Clara Mucci

Resilience stands at the limits of what it means to be human. The opposite of vulnerability, it encompasses qualities that are both relational and innate.

In this unique book, Clara Mucci... (more)

The Burden of Heritage: Hauntings of Generational Trauma on Black Lives

by Aileen Alleyne

The Burden of Heritage: Hauntings of Generational Trauma on Black Lives is a timely addition to the literature on inter- and transgenerational trauma. The book addresses black ancestral trauma passed... (more)

Complex Trauma: The Tavistock Model

Edited by Joanne Stubley, Linda Young

The new diagnosis of Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder presents diagnostic and treatment challenges that need to be grappled with, since, in a troubled world, it is increasingly important to... (more)

The Truth about Trauma and Dissociation: Everything You Didn't Want to Know and Were Afraid to Ask

by Valerie Sinason

The Truth about Trauma and Dissociation is a relational guide which empowers the reader to understand traumatic experience and its aftermath without a loss of feelings. It introduces the key concepts... (more)

Psycho-social Explorations of Trauma, Exclusion and Violence: Un-housed Minds and Inhospitable Environments

by Christopher Scanlon, John Adlam

The central theme of this book is the operation of intersecting discourses of power, privilege and positioning as they are revealed in fraught encounters between in-groups and out-groups in our... (more)

Traveling through Time: How Trauma Plays Itself out in Families, Organizations and Society

by M. Gerard Fromm

“Bullets don’t just travel through skin and bone. They travel through time.”

These words were tattooed onto the shoulder of a young woman whose father was shot during “The Troubles” in Northern... (more)

What Nazism Did to Psychoanalysis

by Laurence Kahn

What Nazism Did to Psychoanalysis explores the impact Nazism had on the evolution of psychoanalysis and tackles the enigma of the transformation of individual hate into mass psychosis and of the... (more)

The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture

by Gabor Mate, Daniel Mate

'It all starts with waking up... to what our bodies are expressing and our minds are suppressing'

Western countries invest billions in healthcare, yet mental illness and chronic diseases are on... (more)

Treating Children with Dissociative Disorders: Attachment, Trauma, Theory and Practice

Edited by Valerie Sinason, Renée Potgieter Marks

This book provides a comprehensive overview of research into dissociation in children and adolescents and challenges conventional ideas about complex behaviours.

Offering a new perspective to... (more)

Psychoanalysis and Society's Neglect of the Sexual Abuse of Children, Youth and Adults: Re-addressing Freud's Original Theory of Sexual Abuse and Trauma

by Arnold W.M. Rachman

This book takes a comprehensive look at the understanding and treatment of child sexual abuse in psychoanalytic theory and practice, and in society as a whole.

This book will demonstrate how... (more)

Trauma, Guilt and Reparation: The Path from Impasse to Development

by Heinz Weiss

Trauma, Guilt and Reparation identifies the emotional barriers faced by people who have experienced severe trauma, as well as the emergence of reparative processes which pave the way from impasse to... (more)

Understanding Trauma: A Psychoanalytical Approach

Edited by Caroline Garland

Revised edition with additional chapter. This book, from the Tavistock Clinic Series, is about what follows the breakdown in functioning, either short or longer-term, provoked by a traumatic event.... (more)

Transforming Infantile Trauma in Analytic Work with Children and Adults: The Clinical Writings of Alessandra Cavalli

Edited by Martha Stevns, Lucinda Hawkins

This vivid and moving volume presents the clinical work and writings of Alessandra Cavalli, an internationally known child and adult psychoanalyst who taught and supervised widely, ran infant... (more)

Attuned Treatment of Developmental Trauma: Non-abused, High-functioning People Living Outside of Time

by Kathleen Adams

This book takes a painstaking look at developmental trauma as it manifests in group, individual, and combined psychotherapies, tracking the growth of non-abused individuals who have courageously... (more)

Our Anxious Selves: Neuropsychological Processes and their Enduring Influence on Who We Are

by Efrat Ginot

Discussing the outsized role that fear, anxiety and other distressing emotions play in forming fundamental aspects of who we are.

Adverse experiences inevitably happen during development and... (more)

Pandemics, Wars, Traumas and Literature: Echoes from the Front Lines

by Francoise Davoine

This book presents unique insights into the experiences of frontline medical workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, psychoanalytic work with trauma and perspectives from literature.

Part One... (more)

Involuntary Dislocation: Home, Trauma, Resilience, and Adversity-Activated Development

by Renos Papadopoulos

Renos K. Papadopoulos clearly and sensitively explores the experiences of people who reluctantly abandon their homes, searching for safer lives elsewhere, and provides a detailed guide to the complex... (more)

The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma

by Bessel A. Van der Kolk

What causes people to continually relive what they most want to forget, and what treatments could help restore them to a life with purpose and joy? Here, Dr Bessel van der Kolk offers a new paradigm... (more)

Lost to Desire: The École Psychosomatique de Paris and its Encounter With Patients Who Do Not Thrive

by Wolfgang Lassmann

This book covers the work of psychoanalysts in post WWII France with patients beset by somatic problems with little manifest fantasy life, and how their concept of operatoire continues to inform the... (more)

From the Trenches: A Victim and Therapist Talk about Mind Control and Ritual Abuse

by Wendy Hoffman, Alison Miller

Though desiring retirement, psychologist Alison Miller offered help to the respected mind control and ritual abuse victim Wendy Hoffman. Through Wendy’s internal investigations, they discovered how... (more)

Ritual Abuse and Mind Control: The Manipulation of Attachment Needs

Edited by Orit Badouk Epstein, Joseph Schwartz

People who have survived ritual abuse or mind control experiments have often been silenced, accused of lying, mocked and disbelieved. Clinicians working with survivors often find themselves isolated,... (more)

Trauma and Memory: The Science and the Silenced

Edited by Valerie Sinason, Ashley Conway

Trauma and Memory will assist mental health experts and professionals, as well as the interested public, in understanding the scientific issues around trauma memory, and how this differs from other... (more)

From Trauma to Harming Others: Therapeutic Work with Delinquent, Violent and Sexually Harmful Children and Young People

Edited by Ariel Nathanson, Graham Music

From Trauma to Harming Others shows the approach of professionals from the world-renowned Portman Clinic, which specializes in work with violence, delinquency and sexual acting out.

This book... (more)

Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control

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