Trauma and Violence Books
Traumatic Dissociation: Neurobiology and Treatment
"Traumatic Dissociation: Neurobiology and Treatment" offers an advanced introduction to this symptom, process, and pattern of personality organization seen in several trauma-related disorders,... (more)
Stolen Tomorrows: Understanding and Treating Women's Childhood Sexual Abuse
From the psychotherapist who offered groundbreaking work on self-mutilation (in "Cutting") comes a landmark examination of the psychology of sexual abuse. "Stolen Tomorrows" encourages the 20 percent... (more)
Working with Traumatized Police-officer Patients: A Clinicians Guide to Complex PTSD Syndromes in Public Safety Professionals
An insider perspective from a 'cop doc on the job', this book is the first of its kind written in response to a need for a specialized guide for clinicians that operationally defines and responsibly... (more)
Accounting for Rape: Psychology, Feminism and Discourse Analysis in the Study of Sexual Violence
"Accounting for Rape" presents an original perspective on the subject of rape, focusing on both female and male sexual violence. The authors investigate everyday beliefs about rape, to examine how... (more)
Interventions Following Mass Violence and Disasters: Strategies for Mental Health Practice
Grounded in the best science available, this essential volume presents practical guidelines for effective clinical intervention in the immediate, intermediate, and long-term aftermath of large-scale... (more)
Cognitive-behavioral Therapies for Trauma
Presents cognitive and behavioral applications for understanding and treating trauma-related problems. This volume includes strategies for addressing comorbid substance abuse, traumatic... (more)
Patchwork: Children, Trauma and Therapy
A pioneering exploration of the creation of resilience in infants, children and their families living in modern Israel. The chapters cover topics such as children's adaptation to Kibbutz life and... (more)
Why People Die by Suicide
In the wake of a suicide, the most troubling questions are invariably the most difficult to answer: How could we have known? What could we have done? And always, unremittingly: Why? Written by a... (more)
Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty: Trauma-Centered Psychoanalysis
Since trauma is a thoroughly relational phenomenon, it is highly unpredictable, and cannot be made to fit within the scientific framework Freud so admired. In "Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty:... (more)
Treating Violence: A Guide to Risk Management in Mental Health
Treating Violence deals with the problem of violence by mental health patients. Over the last twenty years violence by the mentally ill has grown from just a peripheral concern to dominate debate... (more)
Moving on After Trauma: A Guide for Survivors, Family and Friends
The effects of extreme trauma can continue to be emotionally devastating. "Moving On After Trauma" offers hope, providing survivors, family members and friends with a roadmap for managing emotional,... (more)
Understanding the Effects of Child Sexual Abuse: Feminist Revolutions in Theory, Research and Practice
Child sexual abuse is a global problem that negatively affects many women and girls. As such, it has long been of concern to feminists, and more recently mental health activists. This book draws on... (more)
Child Abuse and Stress Disorders
This book examines major stressful events along with several stress disorders, including post-traumatic stress disorder. It also contains chapters that deal with various types of child abuse and... (more)
Interviewing Children About Sexual Abuse: Controversies and Best Practice
Interviewing children who may been sexually abused is a daunting task fraught with far-reaching consequences for the children, families, institutions, and professionals involved. With no room for... (more)
On Paedophilia
A topical and complete examination of the phenomena of paedophilia starting with a historical overview and then proceeding to a psychoanalytic examination of its structure and treatment. Contents... (more)
Consequences of Denial: The Armenian Genocide
Consequences of Denial seeks to provide some awareness and understanding of the horrendous tragedy of the Armenian genocide. This book illuminates the little known fact that over two million innocent... (more)
Healing Scripts: Using Hypnosis to Treat Trauma and Stress
This book is dedicated to the use of hypnotherapy to help victims recover from trauma and stress. This field is desperate for new ideas and solutions and "Healing Scripts" provides just this -... (more)
The Handbook of Posttraumatic Growth: Research and Practice
Providing suggestions for the useful steps to be taken in understanding posttraumatic growth, this book offers contributions representing an array of perspectives of posttraumatic growth. It serves... (more)
Wounded by Reality: Understanding and Treating Adult Onset Trauma
The culmination of three decades of studying and treating survivors of adult onset trauma, "Wounded by Reality" is the first systematic attempt to differentiate adult onset trauma from childhood... (more)
Trauma and Human Existence: Autobiographical, Psychoanalytic, and Philosophical Reflections
Trauma and Human Existence effectively interweaves two themes central to emotional trauma - the first of which pertains to the contextuality of emotional life in general, and of the experience of... (more)
Understanding, Assessing, and Treating Adult Victims of Childhood Abuse
This important book identifies the adult adjustment disorders that are associated with childhood abuse and explains why various forms of abuse lead to specific adjustment difficulties. The authors... (more)
Child Sexual Abuse: Disclosure, Delay, and Denial
This volume provides the first rigorous assessment of the research relating to the disclosure of childhood sexual abuse, along with the practical and policy implications of the findings. Leading... (more)
Healing Your Emotional Self: A Powerful Program to Help You Raise Your Self-esteem, Quiet Your Inner Critic, and Overcome Your Shame
This work offers a comprehensive self help plan to help you provide for yourself what you missed as a child. Those who were emotionally abused or neglected in childhood tend to suffer from self... (more)
Forensic Aspects of Dissociative Identity Disorder
This ground-breaking book examines the role of crime in the lives of people with Dissociative Identity Disorder, formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder, a condition which appears to be... (more)
A Big and a Little One is Gone: Crisis Therapy with a Two-year-old Boy
This is a story from inside the child psychologist's room. Victor, who is two and a half years old, has lost his mother and younger brother in a car accident. He is 'sunny and happy' and does not... (more)
Intimate Warfare: Regarding the Fragility of Family Relations
The community in which children are nursed; the family, should by all means be a safe haven. However, it is not. People in family relations are more likely to be threatened, hit, kicked, raped or... (more)
Teens Who Hurt: Clinical Interventions to Break the Cycle of Adolescent Violence
Offering a fresh perspective on treatment, this book presents an overarching framework and many specific strategies for working with violent youth and their families. The authors shed light on the... (more)
The Abusive Personality: Violence and Control in Intimate Relationships: Second Edition (Hardback)
The new edition of this popular, strong seller includes two new chapters and thorough updates. The book describes an evidence-based treatment approach for a perennial, urgent problem. It has little... (more)
Choosing to Heal: Using Reality Therapy in the Treatment of Sexually Abused Children
The number of sexual abuse disclosures by children has been increasing at a steady rate. Therapists are faced with the dilemma of limited resources and training to help them best serve this... (more)