Trauma and Violence Books
Cognitive Behavioural Approaches to the Understanding and Treatment of Dissociation
The study of dissociation is relevant to anyone undertaking research or treatment of mental health problems. Cognitive Behavioural Approaches to the Understanding and Treatment of Dissociation uses a... (more)
Remembering Trauma
Are horrific experiences indelibly fixed in a victim's memory? Or does the mind protect itself by banishing traumatic memories from consciousness? How victims remember trauma is the most... (more)
Childhood Denied: Ending the Nightmare of Child Abuse and Neglect
This book delves into the reasons for continuous disregard politically, legally, socially of children at risk for abuse and neglect. It examines where we've been and why we're not making more... (more)
Hurting Memories and Beneficial Forgetting: Posttraumatic Stress Disorders, Biographical Developments, and Social Conflicts
Memories are indispensable for individuals as well as social groups. Forgetting not only means loss of functioning but also loss of identity. Memories can also be hurting and cause problems, as... (more)
Stop Domestic Violence: Innovative Skills, Techniques, Options, and Plans for Better Relationships: Third Edition
The third edition of the acclaimed Domestic Violence 2000, this comprehensive instruction manual teaches group leaders how to effectively and successfully administer David B. Wexler's trusted... (more)
Healing the Traumatized Self: Consciousness, Neuroscience, and Treatment
Cultivation of emotional awareness is difficult, even for those of us not afflicted by serious mental illness. This book discusses the neurobiology behind emotional states and presents exercises for... (more)
Healing World Trauma with the Therapeutic Spiral Model
The Therapeutic Spiral Model (TSM) was developed as a clinical method of addressing deep issues of trauma, notably post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) relating to physical and emotional abuse and... (more)
Theatre of Witness: Finding the Medicine in Stories of Suffering, Transformation and Peace
Theatre of Witness is a model of performance that gives voice to those who have been marginalized, forgotten or unheard in society, creating a safe forum for audiences to bear witness to real-life... (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)
Posttraumatic Growth in Clinical Practice
From the authors who pioneered the concept of posttraumatic growth comes Posttraumatic Growth in Clinical Practice, a book that brings the study of growth after trauma into the twenty-first century.... (more)
Helping Traumatized Families: Second Edition
The new edition of the classic Helping Traumatized Families not only offers clinicians a unified, evidence-based theory of the systemic impact of traumatic stress-it also details a systematic... (more)
Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Psychological Pathways to Conflict Transformation and Peace Building
This volume identifies the central issues related with forgiveness and reconciliation from several perspectives. (more)
The Wandering Mind: Understanding Dissociation from Daydreams to Disorders
Have you ever had a daydream? If so, you've had a dissociative experience. The same is true if you've had an out-of-body moment or thought you were somewhere else as you drifted off to sleep. These... (more)
Hungry for Ecstasy: Trauma, the Brain, and the Influence of the Sixties
Explores the hunger for ecstatic experience that can lead people down the road to self-destruction. In an attempt to help mental health professionals and concerned individuals understand and identify... (more)
Restoring Mentalizing in Attachment Relationships: Treating Trauma with Plain Old Therapy
The book provides a conceptual framework for treating trauma patients and illuminates relationship factors that are empirically associated with positive outcomes. Patients who have suffered broken... (more)
Working with Trauma: Systemic Approaches
The toxic nature of trauma can make it an overwhelming area of work. This book by a recognised expert adopts a systemic perspective, focusing on the individual in context. Very positively, it shows... (more)
Treatment of Complex Trauma: A Sequenced Relationship-Based Approach
Authored by two experienced clinicians, this insightful guide provides a pragmatic roadmap for treating adult survivors of complex psychological trauma. Christine Courtois and Julian Ford present... (more)
Rhythms of Recovery: Trauma Nature and the Body
Rhythm is one of the most important components of our survival and well-being. It governs the patterns of our sleep and respiration and is profoundly tied to our relationships with friends and... (more)
Trafficked Young People: Breaking the Wall of Silence
Human trafficking constitutes one of the most serious human rights violations of our time. However, many social work practitioners still have a poor and incomplete understanding of the experiences of... (more)
CBT for Common Trauma Responses
This is the first book to show how to use cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) with the full spectrum of post-traumatic responses; exploring how they affect and relate to one another. Focusing not... (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)
Assessment and Treatment Planning for PTSD
The diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder has increasingly been the focus of clinicians' attention when treating patients after stressful life events. Written by authors with extensive research... (more)
How He Gets into Her Head: The Mind of the Male Intimate Abuser
Presenting some ground-breaking ideas, this book prompts a radical reappraisal of how we think about and understand male intimate abuse and violence. Over the last fifty years an array of resources... (more)
War Trauma and Its Aftermath: An International Perspective on the Balkan and Gulf Wars
War trauma has long been associated with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a term coined in 1980 to explain the post-war impact of Vietnam veterans. The Gulf and Balkan wars added new dimensions... (more)
Cognitive-behavioral Conjoint Therapy for PTSD: Harnessing the Healing Power of Relationships
Presenting an evidence-based treatment for couples in which one or both partners suffers from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), this step-by-step manual is packed with practical clinical guidance... (more)
Dynamic Psychotherapy with Adult Survivors: Living Past Neglect
Dynamic Psychotherapy with Adult Survivors: Living Past Neglect by Lori Bennett examines the aftereffects of emotional neglect in order to help clinicians to better serve survivors. Bennett makes an... (more)
The Impact of Complex Trauma on Development
The Impact of Complex Trauma on Development describes what happens cognitively and emotionally, behaviorally and relationally, to people who are repeatedly traumatized in childhood. Part One brings... (more)
Mourning the Person One Could Have Become: On the Road from Trauma to Authenticity
This book introduces the concept of "the Person One Could Have Become" and shows the importance of mourning for individuals with traumatic experiences. "the Person One Could Have Become" is... (more)
Care of Children Exposed to the Traumatic Effects of Disaster
Care of Children Exposed to the Traumatic Effects of Disaster addresses the effects of disaster on children and their families, and explores the various resources that mental health practitioners and... (more)
Psychic Reality in Context: Perspectives on Psychoanalysis, Personal History, and Trauma
This book skillfully combines autobiographical stories with clear psychoanalytical theories. During her childhood, the author experienced the Holocaust and was left understandly traumatised by it. It... (more)