Trauma and Violence Books
Intellectual Disability, Trauma and Psychotherapy
People with intellectual disabilities have emotional and mental health needs just like anyone else. Until recently however there has been little research of effective psychological treatment or... (more)
Strategies for Managing Stress After War: Veteran's Workbook and Guide to Wellness
Using a resilience and wellness-based model, this guide helps participants alleviate war-related stress symptoms by adjusting to retransition stress reactions; learning healthy coping skills;... (more)
Clinician's Guide to Treating Stress After War: Education and Coping Interventions for Veterans
This book guides mental health professionals in providing resilience-based, wellness-oriented training to meet the psychological needs of those exposed to a war zone. It sensitively offers education... (more)
A Child's Journey to Recovery: Assessment and Planning for Traumatized Children
This book shows how carefully planned and assessed treatment can help traumatized children. It outlines how to set up a process for measuring a child's progress towards recovery. Uniquely, the book... (more)
In the Name of Love: Romantic Ideology and Its Victims
We yearn to experience the idealized love depicted in so many novels, movies, poems, and popular songs. Ironically, it is the idealization of love that arms it with its destructive power. Popular... (more)
Traumatic Dissociation: Neurobiology and Treatment
"Traumatic Dissociation: Neurobiology and Treatment" offers an advanced introduction to this symptom, process, and pattern of personality organization seen in several trauma-related disorders,... (more)
Stolen Tomorrows: Understanding and Treating Women's Childhood Sexual Abuse
From the psychotherapist who offered groundbreaking work on self-mutilation (in "Cutting") comes a landmark examination of the psychology of sexual abuse. "Stolen Tomorrows" encourages the 20 percent... (more)
Relating to Self-harm and Suicide: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Practice, Theory and Prevention
Relating to Self-Harm and Suicide presents original studies and research from contemporary psychoanalysts, therapists and academics focusing on the psychoanalytic understanding of suicide and... (more)
Working with Traumatized Police-officer Patients: A Clinicians Guide to Complex PTSD Syndromes in Public Safety Professionals
An insider perspective from a 'cop doc on the job', this book is the first of its kind written in response to a need for a specialized guide for clinicians that operationally defines and responsibly... (more)
Accounting for Rape: Psychology, Feminism and Discourse Analysis in the Study of Sexual Violence
"Accounting for Rape" presents an original perspective on the subject of rape, focusing on both female and male sexual violence. The authors investigate everyday beliefs about rape, to examine how... (more)
Interventions Following Mass Violence and Disasters: Strategies for Mental Health Practice
Grounded in the best science available, this essential volume presents practical guidelines for effective clinical intervention in the immediate, intermediate, and long-term aftermath of large-scale... (more)
Cognitive-behavioral Therapies for Trauma
Presents cognitive and behavioral applications for understanding and treating trauma-related problems. This volume includes strategies for addressing comorbid substance abuse, traumatic... (more)
Patchwork: Children, Trauma and Therapy
A pioneering exploration of the creation of resilience in infants, children and their families living in modern Israel. The chapters cover topics such as children's adaptation to Kibbutz life and... (more)
Why People Die by Suicide
In the wake of a suicide, the most troubling questions are invariably the most difficult to answer: How could we have known? What could we have done? And always, unremittingly: Why? Written by a... (more)
Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty: Trauma-Centered Psychoanalysis
Since trauma is a thoroughly relational phenomenon, it is highly unpredictable, and cannot be made to fit within the scientific framework Freud so admired. In "Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty:... (more)
Treating Violence: A Guide to Risk Management in Mental Health
Treating Violence deals with the problem of violence by mental health patients. Over the last twenty years violence by the mentally ill has grown from just a peripheral concern to dominate debate... (more)
Moving on After Trauma: A Guide for Survivors, Family and Friends
The effects of extreme trauma can continue to be emotionally devastating. "Moving On After Trauma" offers hope, providing survivors, family members and friends with a roadmap for managing emotional,... (more)
Understanding the Effects of Child Sexual Abuse: Feminist Revolutions in Theory, Research and Practice
Child sexual abuse is a global problem that negatively affects many women and girls. As such, it has long been of concern to feminists, and more recently mental health activists. This book draws on... (more)
Child Abuse and Stress Disorders
This book examines major stressful events along with several stress disorders, including post-traumatic stress disorder. It also contains chapters that deal with various types of child abuse and... (more)
Interviewing Children About Sexual Abuse: Controversies and Best Practice
Interviewing children who may been sexually abused is a daunting task fraught with far-reaching consequences for the children, families, institutions, and professionals involved. With no room for... (more)
On Paedophilia
A topical and complete examination of the phenomena of paedophilia starting with a historical overview and then proceeding to a psychoanalytic examination of its structure and treatment. Contents... (more)
Consequences of Denial: The Armenian Genocide
Consequences of Denial seeks to provide some awareness and understanding of the horrendous tragedy of the Armenian genocide. This book illuminates the little known fact that over two million innocent... (more)
Healing Scripts: Using Hypnosis to Treat Trauma and Stress
This book is dedicated to the use of hypnotherapy to help victims recover from trauma and stress. This field is desperate for new ideas and solutions and "Healing Scripts" provides just this -... (more)
The Handbook of Posttraumatic Growth: Research and Practice
Providing suggestions for the useful steps to be taken in understanding posttraumatic growth, this book offers contributions representing an array of perspectives of posttraumatic growth. It serves... (more)
Wounded by Reality: Understanding and Treating Adult Onset Trauma
The culmination of three decades of studying and treating survivors of adult onset trauma, "Wounded by Reality" is the first systematic attempt to differentiate adult onset trauma from childhood... (more)
Trauma and Human Existence: Autobiographical, Psychoanalytic, and Philosophical Reflections
Trauma and Human Existence effectively interweaves two themes central to emotional trauma - the first of which pertains to the contextuality of emotional life in general, and of the experience of... (more)
Understanding, Assessing, and Treating Adult Victims of Childhood Abuse
This important book identifies the adult adjustment disorders that are associated with childhood abuse and explains why various forms of abuse lead to specific adjustment difficulties. The authors... (more)
Child Sexual Abuse: Disclosure, Delay, and Denial
This volume provides the first rigorous assessment of the research relating to the disclosure of childhood sexual abuse, along with the practical and policy implications of the findings. Leading... (more)
Healing Your Emotional Self: A Powerful Program to Help You Raise Your Self-esteem, Quiet Your Inner Critic, and Overcome Your Shame
This work offers a comprehensive self help plan to help you provide for yourself what you missed as a child. Those who were emotionally abused or neglected in childhood tend to suffer from self... (more)