Trauma and Violence Books
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)
Sexual Abuse: The Child's Voice: Poppies on the Rubbish Heap
In this work the author shows how abuse can affect the mental well-being of children, and how the repair of the child's trust in adults is crucial to the process of healing. The counselling process... (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)
Trauma-Organized Systems: Physical and Sexual Abuse in Families
This book is about the experience of individuals who have been abused or who have abused others, but it also traces the way an abusive experience can organize a family or professional system so that... (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)
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)
From Pain to Violence: The Traumatic Roots of Destructiveness: Second Edition
The author, a psychiatrist and psychoanalytical psychotherapist, begins by defining 'violence', as distinct from 'aggression', and then attempts to trace its origins, highlighting the polarisation... (more)
Violent Attachments
Examines the diagnosis of individuals who show physical violence as a manifestation of their emotional attachments. (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)
When Religion Hurts You - Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
Religious trauma is something that happens far more often than most people realize. But religious trauma is trauma.
In When Religion Hurts You, Dr. Laura Anderson takes an honest look at a side... (more)
Life After Brain Injury: Survivors' Stories
This is the first book of its kind to include the personal accounts of people who have survived injury to the brain, along with professional therapists' reports of their progress through... (more)
Blossoming Into Disability Culture Following Traumatic Brain Injury: The Lotus Arising
This book tells the author’s story of her ten-year journey of recovery and identity transformation from Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Dr. Dee is a survivor who regained the ability to articulate what... (more)
Transgenerational Trauma: A Contemporary Introduction
In this book, Jill Salberg and Sue Grand offer an overview of the psychoanalytic work on transgenerational trauma, rooting their perspective in attachment theory, and the social-ethical turn of... (more)
Complex and Traumatic Loss: Fostering Healing and Resilience
In this needed practice and training guide for all mental health professionals, Froma Walsh presents a research-informed, resilience-oriented approach to help individuals, couples, and families who... (more)
Holographic Reprocessing for Healing Trauma, Abuse, and Maltreatment
Holographic Reprocessing for Healing Trauma, Abuse, and Maltreatment facilitates constructive reorganization of the perception of trauma which in turn, modifies associated emotional and behavioral... (more)
Trauma and Pain Without a Subject: Disruptive Marks in the Psyche, Resignified
Trauma and Pain Without a Subject explores the necessity of the subject of trauma emerging, particularly when a victim has experienced but not worked through disruptive situations, in order for... (more)
Trauma and Its Impacts on Temporal Experience: New Perspectives from Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis
This unique text develops an original theoretical framework for understanding the relationship between trauma and time by combining phenomenological and psychoanalytical traditions.
Moving... (more)
Trauma and the Supernatural in Psychotherapy: Working with the Curse Position in Clinical Practice
Trauma and the Supernatural in Psychotherapy explores how traumatic experience interacts with unconscious phantasy based in folklore, the supernatural, and the occult. Drawing upon psychoanalysis,... (more)
Avenging Child Sex Abuse: Vigilante Violence in Prisons and the Community
This book explores the subjects of child sex abuse, flaws in the justice system, cultural support for vigilantism, prison violence, and the socio-legal philosophy of punishment. Child sex abuse... (more)
Developmental Trauma: Theory, Research and Practice
Developmental Trauma offers a comprehensive introduction to the research findings that help us understand the effects on human development of early childhood trauma and adaptation to stress. It... (more)
Psychoanalysis, COVID and Mass Trauma: The Trauma of Reality
In this book, constructed as a psychoanalytic diary, the authors reflect on clinical observations from their work with patients during the COVID-19 pandemic, tracking these singular experiences to... (more)
Reclaim: Understanding Complex Trauma and Those Who Abuse
A groundbreaking book that will expand your thinking, whether you are a trauma survivor, a clinician, someone who loves a survivor, or someone seeking to understand abuse.
In Reclaim, expert... (more)
Treating Complex Trauma and Dissociation: A Practical Guide to Navigating Therapeutic Challenges (2nd Edition)
Treating Complex Trauma and Dissociation is the ideal guide for the front-line clinician whose clients come in with histories of trauma, abuse, self-injury, flashbacks, suicidal behavior, and... (more)
Working with Attachment Trauma: Clinical Application of the Adult Attachment Projective Picture System
The Adult Attachment Projective Picture System (AAP) has served as a prominent assessment tool for adults and adolescents internationally for over 20 years. This book introduces the AAP and... (more)