Trauma and Violence Books
Children of Social Trauma: Hungarian Psychoanalytic Case Studies
Observing the ways in which a large group of people may experience collective trauma, which can have identifiable effects in succeeding generations, the author has pioneered individual and group... (more)
Childhood Experiences of Domestic Violence
A discussion of first-hand accounts from children and young people regarding their experiences of both domestic violence and the support services. Based on a three-year research project, it seeks to... (more)
Trauma and memory: Clinical and legal controversies
This book is a comprehensive, scholarly, and balanced guide to the controversies revolving around recovered trauma memories, especially childhood sexual abuse. The contributors provide a road map to... (more)
Violence: Reflections on Our Deadliest Epidemic
This work lays the foundation for a complete rethinking of the nature and meaning of violence in society. The author reveals the motives of men who commit violent crimes and men who not only kill... (more)
Cutting: Understanding and overcoming self-mutilation
This work, written for self-mutilators, parents, friends, therapists, explains why the disorder manifests in self-harming behaviour and describes how the self-mutilator can be helped. 256 pages. (more)
EMDR in the treatment of adults abused as children
This work shows how to integrate EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) into the challenging treatment of sexual abuse survivors so that patients clear their trauma more rapidly, escape... (more)
Honoring Differences: Cultural Issues in the Treatment of Trauma and Loss
This book opens a new chapter in the emerging story of traumatology. It helps us move beyond our Western conceptions of trauma and its consequences and cures. It provides blueprints for effectively... (more)
Children and Young People who Sexually Abuse Others: Challenges and Responses: Second Edition
Presents key research findings about incidence, prevalence and characteristics of young sexual abusers. The text includes issues such as policy and sevice development, particularly in the context of... (more)
Overcoming Childhood Trauma
This book will help the sufferer understand the links between past trauma and present difficulties and offers ways to gain control over these problems, allowing the individual to deal with intrusive... (more)
Violence in Intimate Relationships:
This book examines the roots of violence between spouses, identifies the pre-cursors to wife-beating and asks who are the victims of domestic abuse? It also explores the psychological characteristics... (more)
Psychodynamic Perspectives on Abuse: The Cost of Fear
This book brings together contributions on abuse from writers working in social policy, social work, and psychotherapy, and explores the nature and ramifications of abuse in a new light. (more)
Trauma and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
This is the first comprehensive reader in a new area of counselling. It brings together well-known authors on traumatic stress responses and good counselling practice, as well as new material... (more)
Stress and emotion: A new synthesis
This work explores the latest findings and trends in research and theory and considers a narrative approach to both. It covers topics such as: work and family stress; chronic stress; PTSD; stress in... (more)
The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
Aimed at women who have been victims of sexual abuse as children, this book offers advice on coming to terms with the past while moving positively into the future, and provides an explanation of the... (more)
Traumatic grief: Diagnosis, treatment, and prevention
Traumatic grief is an emerging disorder. This is the first book for clinicians that presents and discusses diagnostic criteria and evidence-based treatment for this disorder. 112 pages. (more)
The Therapist's Emotional Survival: Dealing with the Pain of Exploring Trauma
This book explores the private thoughts of the therapist in response to the patient's inner expressions and how each affects the other over the course of treatment. Perlman documents his own journey... (more)
From survival to fulfilment: A framework for traumatology
Paul Valent sees that the dialectic is not between "life and death" but between "life and trauma". This text theorizes that the big issues of life can now be approached through the science of... (more)
Traumatology of grieving: Conceptual, theoretical, and treatment foundations
This work focuses on death-related PTSD, distinguishing those who have suffered 'simple bereavement' from those who are suffering not only from the death of a loved one, but also from the knowledge... (more)
Group treatment for post traumatic stress disorder: Conceptualization, themes and processes
This text explores the concepts, themes and processes of group treatment for post traumatic stress disorder. (more)
Coping with catastrophe: A handbook of post-disaster psychological aftercare
A handbook for people who provide psychosocial aftercare for victims of disasters. This edition presents findings on the nature and effects of trauma, the psychological debriefing process and the... (more)
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies for Trauma: Second Edition
Significantly revised and restructured to reflect major developments in the field, the expanded second edition of this important work is essentially a new book. The volume presents cutting-edge... (more)
Perspectives on loss: A sourcebook
A distinguished collection of writings representing psychology and related fields. Each author presents a case for a broadly-construed field of loss - both personal and interpersonal - that would... (more)
Memory in Dispute
'This is a much-needed book - experienced clinicians writing intelligently about one of the most fraught and complex clinical problems facing psychotherapy today. We have patients who are suffering... (more)
Counselling and therapy with refugees and victims of trauma: Psychological problems of victims of war, torture and repression
The well-being of refugees displaced by war, disaster or repression is a concern worldwide, but particularly in Europe where mental health practitioners and services need special provision for them.... (more)
Adults abused as children: Experiences of counselling and psychotherapy
This book brings together the experiences of both clients and therapists working with those who have suffered childhood abuse. It consolidates existing knowledge about child abuse and psycho-
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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)
Men Who Batter Women
Considering both feminist approaches to male violence, and those perspectives which treat violent behaviour as psychologically pathological, the author explores how depth psychology can be used to... (more)
Rethinking the trauma of war
Written by professionals involved in helping victims of trauma in various war-torn areas of the world, this book examines emerging concerns about the export of trauma experts to those areas, and... (more)
Wednesday's Child: Research into Women's Experience of Neglect and Abuse in Childhood, and Adult Depression
This volume argues that as many as one in four women have suffered neglect or abuse in childhood, doubling the likelihood of their suffering clinical depression in adult life. It examines the reasons... (more)