Trauma and Violence Books
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)
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)