Trauma and Violence Books
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)
Rethinking Trauma Treatment: Attachment, Memory Reconsolidation, and Resilience
Merely talking about a traumatic event is not enough: the parts of the brain where traumatic, implicit memories are stored don't understand words. Secure attachment is needed to buffer the impact.... (more)
Doing Psychotherapy: A Trauma and Attachment-Informed Approach
Most books about doing psychotherapy are tied to particular psychotherapeutic practices. Here, seasoned clinical author Robin Shapiro teaches readers the ins and outs of a trauma-and... (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)
Trauma and the Destructive-Transformative Struggle: Clinical Perspectives
The impact of trauma can be both destructive and transformative. This important new book presents not only a range of theoretical frameworks through which different trauma can be understood, from the... (more)
Immigrants and Refugees: Trauma, Perennial Mourning, Prejudice, and Border Psychology
Aside from the many political, cultural and economic aspects of the present refugee crisis in Europe, it is also crucial to consider the psychological element. In our fast-changing world,... (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)
Understanding Trauma: A Psychoanalytical Approach
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)
Transgenerational Trauma and Therapy: The Transgenerational Atmosphere
Transgenerational Trauma and Therapy presents the transgenerational, psychological impacts of trauma, and the clinical work on it. The book's expansive insight explores the psychology of the massive,... (more)
Promoting Resilience: Responding to Adversity, Vulnerability, and Loss
Promoting Resilience offers a fresh perspective that views resilience through a sociological lens, emphasizing the significance of loss issues and highlighting a range of practice implications across... (more)
Finding Your Best Self, Revised Edition: Recovery from Addiction, Trauma, or Both
Addiction and trauma specialist Lisa Najavits (creator of the evidence-based Seeking Safety treatment model) has trained thousands of therapists in innovative techniques to help people heal and... (more)
Traumatic Experiences of Normal Development: An Intersubjective, Object Relations Approach to Self, Attachment, Trauma, and Reality
Traditionally, trauma has been defined as negatively impacting external events, with resulting damage. This book puts forth an entirely different thesis: trauma is universal, occurring under even the... (more)
Landscapes of the Dark: History, Trauma, Psychoanalysis
In this important new collection of essays, Jonathan Sklar argues that the founding tension between Freud's commitment to interpretation and Ferenczi's extra parameter of 'being in the experience'... (more)
Becoming Yourself: Overcoming Mind Control and Ritual Abuse
In contrast to the author's previous book, Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control, which was for therapists, this book is designed for survivors of these abuses. It takes... (more)
Invisible Trauma: Women, Difference and the Criminal Justice System
There is an expectation that women will be nurturers and carers. Women who have been judged violent, destructive and criminal and who are detained in the criminal justice system can find themselves... (more)
Healing Trauma in Group Settings: The Art of Co-Leader Attunement
Healing Trauma in Group Settings offers a unique focus on the highly valuable role of attuned co-leader relationships in the practice of healing trauma. Drawing on their extensive experience of... (more)
Treating Traumatic Stress in Children and Adolescents, Second Edition: How to Foster Resilience through Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Competency
Tens of thousands of clinicians have used this book--now revised and expanded with 50% new material--to plan and organize effective interventions for children and adolescents who have experienced... (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)
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)
Psychoanalytic Energy Psychotherapy
People like to talk. We know that talking to an attentive and thoughtful listener can be helpful in clarifying conscious and unconscious feelings, thoughts, and motivations. But is talk enough? The... (more)
Lectures on Violence, Perversion and Delinquency
In this volume contemporary staff describe their thinking and clinical work. Theoretical underpinnings for the understanding of perversion and violence, questions of risk and ethics and the... (more)
Trauma and Primitive Mental States
Trauma and Primitive Mental States: An Object Relations Perspective offers a clinically based framework through which adult survivors of early childhood trauma can re-engage with painful past events... (more)
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy: Third Edition:Basic Principles, Protocols, and Procedures
The authoritative presentation of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, this groundbreaking book - now revised and expanded - has enhanced the clinical repertoires of more... (more)
The Dissociative Mind in Psychoanalysis: Understanding and Working with Trauma
The Dissociative Mind in Psychoanalysis: Understanding and Working With Trauma is an invaluable and cutting edge resource providing the current theory, practice, and research on trauma and... (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)
Ritual Abuse and Mind Control: The Manipulation of Attachment Needs
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)
Terror Within and Without: Attachment and Disintegration: Clinical Work on the Edge
This monograph of the 2008 John Bowlby Memorial Conference brings together papers by leading contributors to the field of attachment and trauma that explore the means by which individuals struggle to... (more)
Psychological Therapy for Paediatric Acquired Brain Injury: Innovations for Children, Young People and Families
Children, young people and families living with an acquired brain injury (ABI), whether through accident, illness, injury or abuse, are rarely offered psychological therapy, and yet the benefits of... (more)
Pocket Guide to Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Articles, Essays, and Conversations
Following an already- established and successful "pocket guide" format, Pat Ogden discusses sensorimotor psychotherapy. Whether you are new to the approach or in need of a handy reference, this book... (more)
Individuation for Adult Replacement Children: Ways of Coming into Being
Kristina E. Schellinski uncovers the hidden trauma of the replacement child - born into an atmosphere of grief to substitute for a lost sibling or other person - and helps adult replacement children... (more)