Trauma and Violence Books

Lost in Transmission: Studies of Trauma Across Generations

Edited by M. Gerard Fromm

A central thesis of this volume is that what human beings cannot contain of their experience - what has been traumatically overwhelming, unbearable, unthinkable - falls out of social discourse, but... (more)

Managing Trauma in the Workplace: Supporting Workers and Organisations

Edited by Noreen Tehrani

Managing Trauma in the Workplace looks at the impact of trauma not only from the perspective of the employees but also from that of their organisations. In addition to describing the negative... (more)

The Trauma Treatment Handbook: Protocols Across the Spectrum

by Robin Shapiro

With so many trauma treatments to choose from, how can a therapist know which is best for his or her client? In a single, accessible volume, Robin Shapiro explains them all, making sense of the... (more)

Ritual Abuse and Mind Control: The Manipulation of Attachment Needs

Edited by Orit Badouk Epstein, Joseph Schwartz

People who have survived ritual abuse or mind control experiments have often been silenced, accused of lying, mocked and disbelieved. Clinicians working with survivors often find themselves isolated,... (more)

Trauma and the Avoidant Client: Attachment-Based Strategies for Healing

by Robert T. Muller

This book looks at how to effectively engage traumatized clients, who avoid attachment, closeness, and painful feelings.

A large segment of the therapy population consist of those who are in denial... (more)

Terror Within and Without: Attachment and Disintegration: Clinical Work on the Edge

Edited by Judy Yellin, Orit Badouk Epstein

This monograph of the 2008 John Bowlby Memorial Conference brings together papers by leading contributors to the field of attachment and trauma that explore the means by which individuals struggle to... (more)

The Haunted Self: Structural Dissociation and the Treatment of Chronic Traumatization

Edited by Onno Van Der Hart, Kathy Steele

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In this book, three leading researchers and clinicians share what they have learned from treating and studying chronically traumatized individuals across more than 65 years of collective experience.... (more)

From Pain to Violence: The Traumatic Roots of Destructiveness: Second Edition

by Felicity De Zulueta

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)

Trauma and the Discourse of Climate Change: Literature, Psychoanalysis and Denial

by Lee Zimmerman

The more the global north has learned about the existential threat of climate change, the faster it has emitted greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. In Trauma and the Discourse of Climate Change,... (more)

Reducing Compassion Fatigue, Secondary Traumatic Stress, and Burnout: A Trauma-Sensitive Workbook

by William Steele

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)

Rewiring the Addicted Brain with EMDR-Based Treatment

by Laurel Parnell

Writing for both EMDR therapists and substance abuse counsellors, Laurel Parnell provides user-friendly tools to help support clients in recovery with EMDR-based techniques that can be easily... (more)

Finding Your Best Self, Revised Edition: Recovery from Addiction, Trauma, or Both

by Lisa M Najavits

Addiction and trauma specialist Lisa Najavits (creator of the evidence-based Seeking Safety treatment model) has trained thousands of therapists in innovative techniques to help people heal and... (more)

Treating Adult Survivors of Childhood Emotional Abuse and Neglect: Component-Based Psychotherapy

by Elizabeth K. Hopper, Frances K. Grossman

Grounded in 40 years of clinical practice and research, this book provides a systematic yet flexible evidence-based framework for treating adult survivors of complex trauma, particularly those... (more)

EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology: Interventions to Enhance Embodiment in Trauma Treatment

by Arielle Schwartz, Barb Maiberger

This book is written to meet the growing interest in a synthesis of somatic psychology with EMDR Therapy as a comprehensive trauma treatment model. Interventions are presented as scripted protocols... (more)

Healing Relational Trauma with Attachment-Focused Interventions: Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy with Children and Families

by Daniel A. Hughes, Kim S. Golding

DDP is an attachment-focused treatment for children and adolescents who experience abuse and neglect and who are now living in stable foster and adoptive families. Its central interventions are... (more)

The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships

by Bonnie Badenoch

The ability to offer the safe sanctuary of presence is central to treating trauma and therapeutic practice. This book offers brain- and body-based insights and skills for the reader to heal, not only... (more)

Wisdom, Attachment, and Love in Trauma Therapy: Beyond Evidence-Based Practice

by Susan Pease Banitt

Wisdom, Attachment, and Love in Trauma Therapy focuses on the creation of the therapist as healing presence rather than technique administrator-in other words, how to be rather than what to do.... (more)

Early Intervention for Trauma and Traumatic Loss:

Edited by Brett T. Litz

Few dispute the importance of helping people cope with severe life stressors, but questions remain about how to identify those at risk of chronic problems and which interventions facilitate recovery.... (more)

Aggression and Destructiveness: Psychoanalytic Perspectives

Edited by Celia Harding

This book makes a valuable contribution to the attempt to make sense of human aggression, destructiveness and violence perpetrated against the self, others and reality. It will be of great interest... (more)

Mindfulness Skills for Trauma and PTSD: Practices for Recovery and Resilience

by Rachel Goldsmith Turow

Trauma touches every life, but the way that we hold our pain makes a difference. Mindfulness Skills for Trauma and PTSD provides user-friendly descriptions of the many facets of traumatic stress... (more)

Treating Trauma-Related Dissociation: A Practical, Integrative Approach

by Kathy Steele, Suzette Boon

Therapists around the world ask similar questions and struggle with similar challenges treating highly dissociative patients. This book arose not only out of countless hours of treating patients with... (more)

It Wasn't Your Fault: Freeing Yourself from the Shame of Childhood Abuse with the Power of Self-Compassion

by Beverly Engel

Shame is one of the most destructive of human emotions. If you suffered childhood physical or sexual abuse, you may experience such intense feelings of shame that it almost seems to define you a... (more)

Trauma and Countertrauma, Resilience and Counterresilience: Insights from Psychoanalysts and Trauma Experts

Edited by Richard B. Gartner

Treating traumatized patients takes its toll on the treating clinician, giving rise over time to what Richard B. Gartner terms countertrauma in the psychoanalyst or therapist. Trauma and... (more)

Trans-Generational Trauma and the Other: Dialogues Across History and Difference

Edited by Sue Grand, Jill Salberg

Often, our trans-generational legacies are stories of 'us' and 'them' that never reach their terminus. We carry fixed narratives, and the ghosts of our perpetrators and of our victims. We long to be... (more)

Working with Traumatic Memories to Heal Adults with Unresolved Childhood Trauma: Neuroscience, Attachment Theory and Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor Psychotherapy

by Petra Winnette, Jonathan Baylin

What potential does psychotherapy have for mediating the impact of childhood developmental trauma on adult life? Combining knowledge from trauma-focused work, understandings of the developmental... (more)

Trauma, Trust, and Memory: Social Trauma and Reconciliation in Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, and Cultural Memory

Edited by Andreas Hamburger

Trauma is one of the most important topics discussed throughout the clinical, social and cultural field. Social traumatization, as we meet it in the aftermath of genocide, war and persecution, is... (more)

Demons in the Consulting Room: Echoes of Genocide, Slavery and Extreme Trauma in Psychoanalytic Practice

Edited by Adrienne Harris, Margery Kalb

Demons in the Consulting Room: Echoes of Genocide, Slavery and Extreme Trauma in Psychoanalytic Practice is the second of two volumes addressing the overwhelming, often unmetabolizable feelings... (more)

Sexual Abuse and the Sexual Offender: Common Man or Monster?

by Barry Maletzky

Sexual Abuse and the Sexual Offender examines the myths perpetuated by the media and widely held by the public, by providing actual data, with case examples, to demonstrate how sexual offending... (more)

When the Past is Always Present: Emotional Traumatization, Causes, and Cures

by Ronald A. Ruden

When the Past Is Always Present: Emotional Traumatization, Causes, and Cures introduces several new ideas about trauma and trauma treatment. The first of these is that another way to treat... (more)