Trauma and Violence Books
Trauma and Fulfilment Therapy: A Wholist Framework
Trauma results in a wide variety of human unhappiness. In parallel, treatment of the consequences of trauma ranges from drugs, to single session psychological techniques, to management and cognitive... (more)
Acts of Abuse: Sex offenders and the criminal justice system
An exploration of responses from the judicial system to the explosion of media interest in sexual crimes. This study uses current data on the causes, and charts the reactions of the services dealing... (more)
Remembering Trauma: A Psychotherapist's Guide to Memory and Illusion
This review of the controversy surrounding recovered memory relates the issues to a range of psychological therapies (not just psychoanalysis) and goes beyond the debate in order to demonstrate the... (more)
Recovered Memories of Abuse: True or False?
These papers - from a conference with the same title - includes work by Lawrence Weiskrant (highlighting the concerns around false memories), John Morton (outlining contemporary models of memory),... (more)
Understanding Post-traumatic Stress: A Psychosocial Perspective on PTSD and Treatment
This volume summarizes developments in theory and research in post-traumatic stress disorder and, drawing on personality and social psychological literature, presents an integrative model of... (more)
Transforming Trauma: EMDR
Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) has helped thousands of people haunted by abusive histories or trauma. EMDR therapy incorporates eye movements into a comprehensive approach that... (more)
Working with Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
Elsa Jones, working from the Family Institute in Cardiff, has been treating adult survivors of child sexual and physical abuse for several years, and she has clearly and frankly described her work in... (more)
When Father Kills Mother: Guiding Children Through Trauma and Grief: Second Edition
Second edition. Describes the effect on children of bereavement caused by the death of one parent at the hands of the other. Such children effectively lose both parents and are often forgotten in the... (more)
Transforming the Pain: Workbook on Vicarious Traumatization
'Vicarious traumatization' is the traumatization of a helper's inner experience, which results from empathic engagement with traumatized clients. This workbook provides tools for self-assessment,... (more)
The Inner World of Trauma: Archetypal Defences of the Personal Spirit
This work deals with the psychoanalytic interpretation of trauma, with respect to the views of Carl Jung. Kalsched shows the value of Jung's insights in treating traumatized patients, and proposes... (more)
Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through Childhood Trauma
Argues that many recovered memories have their source in primitive anxieties, and that it is easy for the therapist and the client to externalise the past onto supposed perpetrators, under the... (more)
Breaking Down the Wall of Silence: To Join the Waiting Child
Psychohistorical analyses of such tyrants as Hitler, Stalin and Ceausescu have shown the links between the horrors of their childhoods and that which they inflict on the world. In this text, Miller... (more)
Multiple Selves, Multiple Voices: Working with Trauma, Violation and Dissociation
This volume describes ways of understanding the large group of patients who suffer from trauma-based dissociative disorders. The author explores the implications of working with personalities whose... (more)
Working with Domestic Violence and Coercive Control in Clinical Practice: A Practical Guide for Psychologists
Presently, there is difficulty in finding information on how to work in the context of domestic violence and abuse in clinical practice within psychology, despite domestic violence being a... (more)
The Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma: Melancholia, Mothering and Motherhood
Prophecy Coles describes the psychic impact of intergenerational trauma, with reference to clinical cases, literature and social issues.
The book considers how trauma is transmitted across... (more)
The Trauma Root of Social Work: Beyond the Trauma Wall
Many social workers and policymakers feel frustrated by the revolving door of cases closing, only to be reopened, or by stalemates that stand in the way of the desired progress. The Trauma Root of... (more)
The Therapeutic Use of Psychedelics: Essential Skills and Insights for Psychotherapists
The Therapeutic Use of Psychedelics is a comprehensive manual for mental health professionals that details the vital aspects of psychedelic integration therapy.
The book provides essential... (more)
Time to (Re-)integrate Dissociation into Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy?
This book brings together contributions from leading authors in the field of dissociation to facilitate the pursuit of integrative clinical scholarship, connecting psychoanalytic thinking and... (more)
Pierre Janet: A Contemporary Introduction
In this concise yet illuminating volume, Giuseppe Craparo explores the work of Pierre Janet, deftly outlining his theory of mind and pioneering studies on dynamic psychology, trauma, and... (more)
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Israel-Gaza Conflict
This book creates a vital space for psychoanalytic thought on the Israel-Palestine conflict, one of the most polarizing and emotionally charged geopolitical struggles of our time. In the wake of the... (more)
Therapeutic Work for Children with Complex Trauma: A Three-Track Psychodynamic Approach
Therapeutic Work for Children with Complex Trauma offers a contemporary three-track psychodynamic treatment model to mental health professionals working with traumatised children and their... (more)
Trauma-Informed Therapy: A Collaborative Narrative Approach
'Trauma-informed' has become a buzzword in the counselling and psychotherapy arena and the wider worlds of health and social care research and practice. But what does it mean in relation to... (more)
Brain Injury, Trauma and Loss: Rehabilitation During Covid-19
Using a combination of lived experience, clinical insight, and academic research, this book explores the impact of Covid-19 on brain injury rehabilitation to both assist with current treatment and... (more)
Healing Broken Bonds: A Couple's Workbook for Complex Trauma
This one-of-a-kind theoretical and practical workbook provides couples with tools to work towards healing their relationships and experiences of trauma. It will be an invaluable resource for mental... (more)
Inviting the Spirit of Play to Transform Trauma: Healing for All Ages
This unique and accessible book unites leading-edge trauma approaches with the power of playful practice to treat traumatized clients of all ages.
Abundant case examples and exercises show new... (more)