Trauma and Violence Books
The trauma response: Treatment for the emotional injury
A conceptual approach to post-traumatic stress disorder, in which the response to trauma is seen as a reaction to injury rather than as an illness. Treatment is designed to enhance the natural... (more)
States of Denial: Knowing About Atrocities and Suffering
This book offers a comprehensive study of both the personal and political ways in which uncomfortable realities are avoided and evaded. It ranges from clinical states of depression, to media images... (more)
Worlds of hurt: Reading the literatures of trauma
This text presents a rendering of the relationships between individual trauma and cultural interpretation, using as its focus the Holocaust, the Vietnam war, and the phenomenon of sexualized violence... (more)
Brief Therapy for Post-Traumatic Stress: Disorder: Traumatic Incident Reduction and Related Techniques
Research has demonstrated that brief therapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) tends to be more successful than long-term work. Traumatic Incident Reduction is a relatively new and exciting... (more)
Shocks to the system: Psychotherapy of traumatic disability syndromes
Designed to help those suffering from the lasting effects of accidents, assaults, injuries and disasters, this book guides trauma victims in getting medical, psychological and legal help, and... (more)
The Shattered Self: A Psychoanalytic Study of Trauma
Utilizing clinical research of rape and incest victims and Vietnam combat veterans, this text argues that trauma results from real occurrences that have, as their unconscious meaning, the shattering... (more)
Trauma and the Therapist: Countertransference and Vicarious Traumatization in Psychotherapy with Incest Survivors
Explores the role and experience of the therapist in the relationship with adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. The author focuses upon the therapist's response to the client, and his / her... (more)