Trauma and Violence Books
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)
Thinking Through Crisis: Improving Teamwork and Leadership in High-Risk Fields
Bridging the gap between theory and practice, this strikingly original analysis of the complex dynamics of high-risk fields demonstrates that teamwork is more important than technical prowess in... (more)
Trauma and the Soul: A Psycho-Spiritual Approach to Human Development and its Interruption
In Trauma and the Soul, Donald Kalsched continues the exploration he began in his first book, The Inner World of Trauma — this time going further into the mystical or spiritual moments that often... (more)
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment
The body's intelligence is largely an untapped resource in psychotherapy, yet the story told by the "somatic narrative" - gesture, posture, prosody, facial expressions, eye gaze, and movement - is... (more)
The Time Cure: Overcoming PTSD with the New Psychology of Time Perspective Therapy
The Time Cure shows how those living with PTSD can shift their Time Perspectives to change the way they think about past traumatic experiences, get away from the "Fatalistic Present" mindset, and... (more)
Beyond Individual and Collective Trauma: Intergenerational Transmission, Psychoanalytic Treatment, and the Dynamics of Forgiveness
The book combines for the first time attachment theory, regulation attachment therapy, and the intergenerational transmission of trauma, showing how the clinical therapeutic process of “going beyond... (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)
Helping Abused and Traumatized Children: Integrating Directive and Nondirective Approaches
Presenting an integrative model for treating traumatized children, this book combines play, art, and other expressive therapies with ideas and strategies drawn from cognitive-behavioral and family... (more)
Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists
This training manual for patients who have a trauma-related dissociative disorder includes short educational pieces, homework sheets, and exercises that address ways in which dissociation interferes... (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)
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)
Lost in Transmission: Studies of Trauma Across Generations
A central thesis of this volume is that what human beings cannot contain of their experience - what has been traumatically overwhelming, unbearable, unthinkable - falls out of social discourse, but... (more)
Trauma and the Avoidant Client: Attachment-Based Strategies for Healing
This book looks at how to effectively engage traumatized clients, who avoid attachment, closeness, and painful feelings.
A large segment of the therapy population consist of those who are in denial... (more)
Healing the Incest Wound: Adult Survivors in Therapy: Second Edition
Almost twenty years after the publication of the first edition, our knowledge of how to effectively treat incest victims has grown tremendously. Drawing on the latest research, Christine Courtois... (more)
Prolonged Exposure Therapy for Adolescents With PTSD: Emotional Processing of Traumatic Experiences: Therapist Guide
Traumatic events, including sexual abuse, experiencing or witnessing violence, and natural disasters, are common among adolescents. A significant number of adolescents go on to develop posttraumatic... (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)
The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting
World-renowned psychoanalyst, Alice Miller has devoted a lifetime to studying how the cruelties inflicted on children cripple them as adults. In this new work, Miller goes further, investigating the... (more)
Counselling Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse: Third Edition
This book provides practical strategies for those new to counselling in this field. This updated and expanded edition provides comprehensive coverage of the theory and practice of counselling... (more)
Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy
Psychological trauma profoundly affects the body, often disrupting normal physical functioning when left unresolved. Trauma and the Body provides a detailed review of research in neuroscience, trauma... (more)
Loss, Trauma and Resilience: Therapeutic Work with Ambiguous Loss
Whether it is a parent in the grip of Alzheimer's or a spouse missing in a disastrous event, we are all touched by ambiguous loss. Here Pauline Boss, the principal theorist of the concept of... (more)
The Perversion of Loss: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Trauma
This book is an edited collection of psychoanalytic papers written by clinicians in the field of trauma. The text offers a psychoanalytic perspective on trauma and its effects on psychic functioning.... (more)
Psychoanalytic Understanding of Violence and Suicide
This volume comprises a collection of case studies from analysts who have treated patients who have committed serious acts of violence, either against others or themselves. (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)
