Trauma and Violence Books
Immigrants and Refugees: Trauma, Perennial Mourning, Prejudice, and Border Psychology
Aside from the many political, cultural and economic aspects of the present refugee crisis in Europe, it is also crucial to consider the psychological element. In our fast-changing world,... (more)
Treatment of Complex Trauma: A Sequenced, Relationship-Based Approach
This insightful guide provides a pragmatic roadmap for treating adult survivors of complex psychological trauma. Christine Courtois and Julian Ford present their effective, research-based approach... (more)
Child Sexual Abuse: A Primer for Treating Children, Adolescents, and Their Nonoffending Parents
Children who have been sexually abused not only often experience PTSD symptoms as a direct result of the trauma, but also develop unhealthy emotional responses and may engage in age-inappropriate... (more)
CBT for Compulsive Sexual Behaviour: A Guide for Professionals
Increasing numbers of therapists are coming into contact with the problem of compulsive sexual behaviour disorders. However, it is still a relatively new field and there is little in the current... (more)
Inside Views from the Dissociated Worlds of Extreme Violence: Human Beings as Merchandise
This book is primarily for psychotherapists, but is also for professionals such as lawyers, judges, doctors, and the clergy, and for victims. Different perspectives describe worlds of sadistic... (more)
Perverse Psychology: The Pathologization of Sexual Violence and Transgenderism
Psychology defines people who take pleasure in the suffering of others as having a form of mental illness, while media representations frame such behaviour as "evil". This is hotly contested... (more)
Splits in the Soul: Integrating Traumatic Experience
This is the second book by Professor Franz Ruppert in English translation and continues his exploration of the impact of trauma across generations. Here he deepens his understanding of the process... (more)
Psychotherapy with Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse: The Invisible Men
While the psychotherapeutic world has made significant strides in documenting the treatment of women victims of sexual abuse, little has been written on therapeutic responses to men. This may be... (more)
Responses to Terrorism: Can Psychosocial Approaches Break the Cycle of Violence?
Why do responses to terrorist attacks often perpetuate cycles of deadly violence? Can an understanding of the psychology of these cycles help us to break them? Drawing on clinical experience of the... (more)
Traumatic Narcissism: Relational Systems of Subjugation
In this volume Daniel Shaw presents a way of understanding the traumatic impact of narcissism as it is engendered developmentally, and as it is enacted relationally. Focusing on the dynamics of... (more)
Animal Killer: Transmission of War Trauma From One Generation to the Next
A psychoanalytic process from its beginning to its termination is described to illustrate crucial technical issues in the treatment of individuals with narcissistic personality organization and the... (more)
Trauma Healing at the Clay Field: A Sensorimotor Art Therapy Approach
Using clay in therapy taps into the most fundamental of human experiences - touch. This book is a comprehensive step-by-step training manual that covers all aspects of 'Work at the Clay Field', a... (more)
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment
The body's intelligence is largely an untapped resource in psychotherapy, yet the story told by the "somatic narrative" - gesture, posture, prosody, facial expressions, eye gaze, and movement - is... (more)
Narrative Exposure Therapy: A Short-Term Treatment for Traumatic Stress Disorders: Second Revised Edition
The new edition of the clearly structured and easy-to-follow NET manual now includes the latest insights and new treatments for dissociation and social pain. The first part of the book describes the... (more)
Healing the Incest Wound: Adult Survivors in Therapy: Second Edition
Almost twenty years after the publication of the first edition, our knowledge of how to effectively treat incest victims has grown tremendously. Drawing on the latest research, Christine Courtois... (more)
Terror Within and Without: Attachment and Disintegration: Clinical Work on the Edge
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)
Talking About Domestic Abuse: A Photo Activity Workbook to Develop Communication Between Mothers and Young People
Talking About Domestic Abuse is an activity pack for children of 9 years and above and adolescents where families have experienced domestic abuse, to help and encourage them to open up to their... (more)
Lectures on Violence, Perversion and Delinquency
In this volume contemporary staff describe their thinking and clinical work. Theoretical underpinnings for the understanding of perversion and violence, questions of risk and ethics and the... (more)
EMDR in the treatment of adults abused as children
This work shows how to integrate EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) into the challenging treatment of sexual abuse survivors so that patients clear their trauma more rapidly, escape... (more)
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)
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)
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)
Treating the Adult Survivor of Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
Entering the tumultuous, dissociated world of the adult survivor of childhood sexual abuse presents an intimidating challenge for clinicians. But as the authors of this innovative book argue,... (more)
Sand Therapy for Out of Control Sexual Behavior, Shame, and Trauma: Treatment Approaches Beyond Words
This book is designed to educate sex therapists and mental health professionals on the power of using sand when treating sexual issues, providing guidance in accessing their clients’ unconscious to... (more)
Psychoanalytic and Cultural Aspects of Trauma and the Holocaust: Between Postmemory and Postmemorial Work
Psychoanalytic and Cultural Aspects of Trauma and the Holocaust presents interdisciplinary postmemorial endeavors of second-, third- and fourth-generation Holocaust survivors living in Israel and in... (more)
Holding a Mirror up to Nature: Shame, Guilt, and Violence in Shakespeare
Shakespeare has been dubbed the greatest psychologist of all time. This book seeks to prove that statement by comparing the playwright's fictional characters with real-life examples of violent... (more)
Trauma, Flight and Migration: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
This book brings together leading international psychoanalysts to discuss what psychoanalysis can offer to people who have experienced trauma, flight, and migration.
The four parts of the 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)
Trauma-Informed Music Therapy: Theory and Practice
Trauma-Informed Music Therapy is a timely volume that combines theoretical perspectives on trauma-informed practice with real-life applications in music therapy practice.
Board-certified music... (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)