Trauma and Violence Books
Finding Unconscious Fantasy in Narrative, Trauma, and Body Pain: A Clinical Guide
Finding Unconscious Fantasy in Narrative, Trauma and Body Pain: A Clinical Guide demonstrates that the concept of the unconscious is profoundly relevant for understanding the mind, psychic pain and... (more)
Posttraumatic Play in Children: What Clinicians Need to Know
From leading expert Eliana Gil, this book provides child clinicians with essential knowledge and tools for evaluating and working with posttraumatic play. Such play, which is often repetitive and... (more)
EMDR for Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses
This practical resource is the first to apply EMDR to clients/patients with psychotic disorders. It provides a summary of the latest research covering the use of EMDR in schizophrenia and the other... (more)
A Dangerous Place to Be: Identity, Conflict, and Trauma in Higher Education
This book investigates recent conflictual events on college and university campuses, including protests directed at university leaders deemed victimizers, debates over the inclusion of “trigger... (more)
Trauma, Abandonment and Privilege: A Guide to Therapeutic Work with Boarding School Survivors
Trauma, Abandonment and Privilege discusses how ex-boarders can be amongst the most challenging clients for therapists; even experienced therapists may unwittingly struggle to skilfully address the... (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)
Ghosts in the Consulting Room: Echoes of Trauma in Psychoanalysis
Ghosts in the Consulting Room: Echoes of Trauma in Psychoanalysis is the first of two volumes that delves into the overwhelming, often unmetabolizable feelings related to mourning. The book uses... (more)
Trauma, Fear & Love: How the Constellation of the Intention Supports Healthy Autonomy
This is the fourth book by Professor Franz Ruppert translated into English from the German original. In it Ruppert continues his exploration of the impact of trauma on human beings that has been the... (more)
Understanding and Healing Emotional Trauma: Conversations With Pioneering Clinicians and Researchers
Understanding and Healing Emotional Trauma is an interdisciplinary book which explores our current understanding of the forces involved in both the creation and healing of emotional trauma. Through... (more)
Symbiosis and Autonomy: Symbiotic Trauma and Love Beyond Entanglements
This is the third book by Professor Franz Ruppert to be translated into English. In it he explores the relationship between our symbiotic interconnectedness and our ability to be autonomous in our... (more)
Restoring Mentalizing in Attachment Relationships: Treating Trauma with Plain Old Therapy
The book provides a conceptual framework for treating trauma patients and illuminates relationship factors that are empirically associated with positive outcomes. Patients who have suffered broken... (more)
How He Gets into Her Head: The Mind of the Male Intimate Abuser
Presenting some ground-breaking ideas, this book prompts a radical reappraisal of how we think about and understand male intimate abuse and violence. Over the last fifty years an array of resources... (more)
Enduring Trauma Through the Life Cycle
This is a multi-authored book on the complex subject of psychic trauma as encountered at different stages of the life-cycle, and describes some of the clinical challenges, technical issues and... (more)
Treating Complex Trauma in Adolescents and Young Adults
The first practical and research-based manual to guide students and practitioners on working specifically with traumatized adolescents. John Briere and Cheryl Lanktree fill a gap in what's currently... (more)
The Trauma Recovery Group: A Guide for Practitioners
Rich with expert, practical guidance for therapists, this book presents an evidence-based group treatment approach for survivors of interpersonal trauma. This time-limited treatment is designed for... (more)
Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity: Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder: Second Edition
This revised edition investigates the still unaddressed and unexplored subject of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). With brand new chapters on police work and attachment theory it has been fully... (more)
Shattered States: Disorganised Attachment and its Repair
THE JOHN BOWLBY MEMORIAL CONFERENCE MONOGRAPH 2007
The fourteenth John Bowlby Memorial Conference, held in London in March 2007, stood out as a special conference in a special year. It...
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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)
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)
Containment in the Community: Supportive Frameworks for Thinking about Antisocial Behaviour and Mental Health
This book is aimed at all practitioners working in healthcare and criminal justice community settings with individuals displaying antisocial, offending, and challenging behaviours, at times... (more)
Trauma and Psychosis: New Directions for Theory and Therapy
"Trauma and Psychosis" provides a valuable contribution to the current understanding of the possible relationships between the experience of trauma and the range of phenomena currently referred to as... (more)
Helping Her Get Free: A Guide for Families and Friends of Abused Women
The classic guide for those hoping to help a loved one who is being abused. Teaches readers how to recognize abuse, become effective advocates, and take on the difficult role of being anchors rather... (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)
Adult Analysis and Childhood Sexual Abuse
A study of the effects of childhood sexual abuse on adult analysis. Topics covered include the sequelae of sexual maltreatment of children; the impact of incest trauma on ego development; and... (more)
Betrayed as Boys: Psychodynamic Treatment of Sexually Abused Men
In the growing professional literature on child sexual abuse, few books focus specifically on the experience of victimized boys and men. Interweaving vital elements of psychodynamic and... (more)
Standing in the Spaces: Essays on Clinical Process, Trauma and Dissociation
These collected papers constitute the unfolding of a clinical perspective - a series of reflections on the analytical relationship with its own implicit order, its own progression of ideas and its... (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)
Sexual Abuse: The Child's Voice: Poppies on the Rubbish Heap
In this work the author shows how abuse can affect the mental well-being of children, and how the repair of the child's trust in adults is crucial to the process of healing. The counselling process... (more)
Trauma-Organized Systems: Physical and Sexual Abuse in Families
This book is about the experience of individuals who have been abused or who have abused others, but it also traces the way an abusive experience can organize a family or professional system so that... (more)
Treating the Adult Survivor of Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
Entering the tumultuous, dissociated world of the adult survivor of childhood sexual abuse presents an intimidating challenge for clinicians. But as the authors of this innovative book argue,... (more)