Trauma and Violence Books
Sitting on a Suitcase: Psychoanalytic Stories
A powerful, multifaceted collection of accounts of what it means to be Jewish; to live under the shadow of anti-Semitism and unspoken threat of emigration. This diverse, minority community is marked... (more)
Demystifying Mind Control and Ritual Abuse: A Manual for Therapists
This book was written to meet the need of therapists: a succinct, thorough, practical, clear, down-to-earth handbook to which a therapist can refer as needed. Many, if not most, therapists have... (more)
The Truth about Trauma and Dissociation: Everything You Didn't Want to Know and Were Afraid to Ask
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)
Life and Hope Out of Darkness: Creative Interventions for Helping People in Violent Communities
With real-life examples, this book contains tools for providing effective support for people facing ongoing trauma due to living in a community with high levels of violent crime. It provides hope in... (more)
Complex Trauma: The Tavistock Model
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)
From Pain to Violence: The Traumatic Roots of Destructiveness: Second Edition
Violence is all around us; yet, despite its widespread prevalence, we remain unclear about its causes. In this book, Felicity de Zulueta begins by defining ‘violence' as distinct from ‘aggression',... (more)
Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control
Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control is a practical, task-oriented, instructional manual designed to help therapists provide effective treatment for survivors of these... (more)
The Trauma Recovery Toolkit
The Trauma Recovery Toolkit is a guidebook and flashcard set that has been created to empower individuals living with the effects of trauma and the mental health professionals that support... (more)
The Girls Within: A True Story of Triumph over Trauma and Abuse
The star of this book is an extraordinary, bright-spirited, and entertaining six-year-old girl, called Little Vivvi, who experienced shocking abuse from within her family. Yet Little Vivvi lives... (more)
Trauma, Guilt and Reparation: The Path from Impasse to Development
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)
Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation
Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors integrates a neurobiologically informed understanding of trauma, dissociation, and attachment with a practical approach to treatment, all... (more)
The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma
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)
Transgenerational Trauma: A Contemporary Introduction
In this book, Jill Salberg and Sue Grand offer an overview of the psychoanalytic work on transgenerational trauma, rooting their perspective in attachment theory, and the social-ethical turn of... (more)
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)
Bearing Witness to the Witness: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Four Modes of Traumatic Testimony
Bearing Witness to the Witness examines the different methods of testimony given by trauma victims and the ways in which these can enrich or undermine the ability of the reader to witness them. Years... (more)
Trauma, Dissociation and Multiplicity: Working on Identity and Selves
Trauma, Dissociation and Multiplicity provides psychoanalytic insights into dissociation, in particular dissociative identity disorder (DID), and offers a variety of responses to the questions of... (more)
8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery: Take-Charge Strategies to Empower Your Healing
Trauma recovery is tricky; however, there are several key principles that can help make the process safe and effective. This book gives self help readers, therapy clients, and therapists alike the... (more)
Relating to Self-harm and Suicide: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Practice, Theory and Prevention
Relating to Self-Harm and Suicide presents original studies and research from contemporary psychoanalysts, therapists and academics focusing on the psychoanalytic understanding of suicide and... (more)
Soul Murder Revisited: Thoughts about Therapy, Hate, Love, and Memory
New in paperback. A reflection on the circumstances of child abuse, and on the consequences of this abuse. There are examples from literature and from clinical material. 328 pages. (more)
Forced Migration and Social Trauma: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Psychoanalysis, Psychology, Sociology and Politics
Forced Migration and Social Trauma addresses the topic of social trauma and migration by bringing together a broad range of interdisciplinary and international contributors, comprising refugee care... (more)
When a Child has been Abused: Towards Psychoanalytic Understanding and Therapy
This important and wide-ranging book explores the world of a child or young person who has been abused or neglected. It seeks to understand their world, to ease the pain from which they suffer, and... (more)
EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology: Interventions to Enhance Embodiment in Trauma Treatment
This book is written to meet the growing interest in a synthesis of somatic psychology with EMDR Therapy as a comprehensive trauma treatment model. Interventions are presented as scripted protocols... (more)
Trauma & the Struggle to Open Up: From Avoidance to Recovery and Growth
In therapy, we see how relationships are central to many traumatic experiences, but relationships are also critical to trauma recovery. Grounded firmly in attachment and trauma theory, this book... (more)
Aggression and Destructiveness: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
This book makes a valuable contribution to the attempt to make sense of human aggression, destructiveness and violence perpetrated against the self, others and reality. It will be of great interest... (more)
Art Therapy with Military Populations: History, Innovation, and Applications
For decades, art therapy has proved to be practical treatment for veterans and other military populations suffering from trauma. Art Therapy with Military Populations provides an in-depth overview of... (more)
Mindfulness Skills for Trauma and PTSD: Practices for Recovery and Resilience
Trauma touches every life, but the way that we hold our pain makes a difference. Mindfulness Skills for Trauma and PTSD provides user-friendly descriptions of the many facets of traumatic stress... (more)
Treating Trauma-Related Dissociation: A Practical, Integrative Approach
Therapists around the world ask similar questions and struggle with similar challenges treating highly dissociative patients. This book arose not only out of countless hours of treating patients with... (more)
Analysis of the Incest Trauma: Retrieval, Recovery, Renewal
Childhood sexual abuse within the family of origin and society's institutions, such as the church, education, sports, and the world of celebrity, has been neglected as a significant issue by... (more)
Splits in the Soul: Integrating Traumatic Experience
This is the second book by Professor Franz Ruppert in English translation and continues his exploration of the impact of trauma across generations. Here he deepens his understanding of the process... (more)
Into the Darkest Places: Early Relational Trauma and Borderline States of Mind
This book explores the roots of borderline states of mind in early relational trauma and shows how it is possible, and necessary, to visit 'the darkest places' in order to work through these traumas.... (more)