Trauma and Violence Books
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)
Violent Attachments
Examines the diagnosis of individuals who show physical violence as a manifestation of their emotional attachments. (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)
The Handbook of Complex Trauma and Dissociation in Children: Theory, Research, and Clinical Applications
The Handbook of Complex Trauma and Dissociation in Children is a comprehensive and truly vital text for both experienced professionals and novice clinicians alike.
In these pages, dozens of... (more)
Dance/Movement Therapy and Sexual Abuse: Assessment and Intervention Based on Body-Mind Approaches
Dance/Movement Therapy and Sexual Abuse addresses the vital role dance/movement therapy plays in helping survivors of sexual abuse.
Comprising ten chapters, the book describes assessment,... (more)
Memory, Trauma and the Spirited Life: Remembering and Identity
Memory, Trauma and the Spirited Life offers a unique understanding of memory’s role in developing as a person, in navigating the course of life, and in mitigating emotional pain.
This book... (more)
Treating Trauma in Dialectical Behavior Therapy: The DBT Prolonged Exposure Protocol (DBT PE)
Many DBT clients suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but until now the field has lacked a formal, tested protocol for exactly when and how to treat trauma within DBT. Combining the... (more)
What Nazism Did to Psychoanalysis
What Nazism Did to Psychoanalysis explores the impact Nazism had on the evolution of psychoanalysis and tackles the enigma of the transformation of individual hate into mass psychosis and of the... (more)
The Practical Guide for Healing Developmental Trauma: Using the NeuroAffective Relational Model to Address Adverse Childhood Experiences and Resolve Complex Trauma
A clinician's guidebook.
Apply the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) to help clients overcome complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD), recover from adverse childhood experiences... (more)
The Myth of Closure: Ambiguous Loss in a Time of Pandemic and Change
How do we begin to cope with loss that cannot be resolved?
The COVID-19 pandemic has left many of us haunted by feelings of anxiety, despair and even anger. In this book, pioneering therapist,... (more)
Treating Children with Dissociative Disorders: Attachment, Trauma, Theory and Practice
This book provides a comprehensive overview of research into dissociation in children and adolescents and challenges conventional ideas about complex behaviours.
Offering a new perspective to... (more)
Trauma and Memory: The Science and the Silenced
Trauma and Memory will assist mental health experts and professionals, as well as the interested public, in understanding the scientific issues around trauma memory, and how this differs from other... (more)
Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection: 50 Client-Centered Practices
Deb Dana is the foremost translator of polyvagal theory into clinical practice. Here, in her third book on this groundbreaking theory, she provides therapists with a grab-bag of polyvagal-informed... (more)
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
The consequences of racism can be found in our bodies - in skin and sinew, in bone and blood. In this ground-breaking, inspiring work, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage, the physical... (more)
Preparing for Trauma Work in Clinical Mental Health: A Workbook to Enhance Self-Awareness and Promote Safe, Competent Practice
This workbook is a foundational and unique resource for clinicians preparing to work with clients affected by trauma. Chapters integrate a holistic understanding of the unique client within... (more)
Holocaust Trauma and Psychic Deformation: Psychoanalytic Reflections of a Holocaust Survivor
Written by a survivor of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, this moving and important book examines the massive psychic trauma suffered by a generation of Holocaust survivors. It not only provides... (more)
Trauma and Dissociation-Informed Psychotherapy: Relational Healing and the Therapeutic Connection
A new model of therapeutic action, one that heals trauma and dissociation, is overtaking the mental- health field. It is not just trauma, but the dissociation of the self, that causes emotional pain... (more)
A Brain Of My Own: A memoir about dissociation dissolved
A Brain of My Own is about slavery, about brains stolen in childhood and before; brains that have been intruded upon, stopped, shrunk, paralyzed. We know about the history of people whose bodies were... (more)
Promoting Resilience: Responding to Adversity, Vulnerability, and Loss
Promoting Resilience offers a fresh perspective that views resilience through a sociological lens, emphasizing the significance of loss issues and highlighting a range of practice implications across... (more)
Psychological Therapy for Paediatric Acquired Brain Injury: Innovations for Children, Young People and Families
Children, young people and families living with an acquired brain injury (ABI), whether through accident, illness, injury or abuse, are rarely offered psychological therapy, and yet the benefits of... (more)
Art Therapy Treatment with Sex Trafficking Survivors: Facilitating Empowerment, Recovery, and Hope
This groundbreaking book introduces and researches art therapy as a creative and effective treatment for the sensitive and pertinent issue of human sex trafficking. Rich empirical examples and best... (more)
Reducing Compassion Fatigue, Secondary Traumatic Stress, and Burnout: A Trauma-Sensitive Workbook
Reducing Compassion Fatigue, Secondary Traumatic Stress, and Burnout addresses the vital questions mental health providers have about self-care and its relationship to clinical practice. Packed with... (more)
Healing Trauma in Group Settings: The Art of Co-Leader Attunement
Healing Trauma in Group Settings offers a unique focus on the highly valuable role of attuned co-leader relationships in the practice of healing trauma. Drawing on their extensive experience of... (more)
Pocket Guide to Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Articles, Essays, and Conversations
Following an already- established and successful "pocket guide" format, Pat Ogden discusses sensorimotor psychotherapy. Whether you are new to the approach or in need of a handy reference, this book... (more)
Trauma and the Destructive-Transformative Struggle: Clinical Perspectives
The impact of trauma can be both destructive and transformative. This important new book presents not only a range of theoretical frameworks through which different trauma can be understood, from the... (more)
Landscapes of Trauma: The Psychology of the Battlefield
Integrating trauma studies with historical research and social psychology, Landscapes of Trauma examines a range of battlefields from across history, including Waterloo, the Battle of Sedan, the... (more)
Individuation for Adult Replacement Children: Ways of Coming into Being
Kristina E. Schellinski uncovers the hidden trauma of the replacement child - born into an atmosphere of grief to substitute for a lost sibling or other person - and helps adult replacement children... (more)
Understanding the Paradox of Surviving Childhood Trauma: Techniques and Tools for Working with Suicidality and Dissociation
Understanding the Paradox of Surviving Childhood Trauma offers clinicians a new framework for understanding the symptoms and coping mechanisms displayed by survivors of childhood abuse. This approach... (more)