Trauma and Violence Books
EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology: Interventions to Enhance Embodiment in Trauma Treatment
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)
Trauma & the Struggle to Open Up: From Avoidance to Recovery and Growth
In therapy, we see how relationships are central to many traumatic experiences, but relationships are also critical to trauma recovery. Grounded firmly in attachment and trauma theory, this book... (more)
Aggression and Destructiveness: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
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)
From the Trenches: A Victim and Therapist Talk about Mind Control and Ritual Abuse
Though desiring retirement, psychologist Alison Miller offered help to the respected mind control and ritual abuse victim Wendy Hoffman. Through Wendy’s internal investigations, they discovered how... (more)
Mindfulness Skills for Trauma and PTSD: Practices for Recovery and Resilience
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
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)
Analysis of the Incest Trauma: Retrieval, Recovery, Renewal
Childhood sexual abuse within the family of origin and society's institutions, such as the church, education, sports, and the world of celebrity, has been neglected as a significant issue by... (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)
Into the Darkest Places: Early Relational Trauma and Borderline States of Mind
This book explores the roots of borderline states of mind in early relational trauma and shows how it is possible, and necessary, to visit 'the darkest places' in order to work through these traumas.... (more)
Thinking Through Crisis: Improving Teamwork and Leadership in High-Risk Fields
Bridging the gap between theory and practice, this strikingly original analysis of the complex dynamics of high-risk fields demonstrates that teamwork is more important than technical prowess in... (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)
The Time Cure: Overcoming PTSD with the New Psychology of Time Perspective Therapy
The Time Cure shows how those living with PTSD can shift their Time Perspectives to change the way they think about past traumatic experiences, get away from the "Fatalistic Present" mindset, and... (more)
Beyond Individual and Collective Trauma: Intergenerational Transmission, Psychoanalytic Treatment, and the Dynamics of Forgiveness
The book combines for the first time attachment theory, regulation attachment therapy, and the intergenerational transmission of trauma, showing how the clinical therapeutic process of “going beyond... (more)
Helping Abused and Traumatized Children: Integrating Directive and Nondirective Approaches
Presenting an integrative model for treating traumatized children, this book combines play, art, and other expressive therapies with ideas and strategies drawn from cognitive-behavioral and family... (more)
Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists
This training manual for patients who have a trauma-related dissociative disorder includes short educational pieces, homework sheets, and exercises that address ways in which dissociation interferes... (more)
Landscapes of the Dark: History, Trauma, Psychoanalysis
In this important new collection of essays, Jonathan Sklar argues that the founding tension between Freud's commitment to interpretation and Ferenczi's extra parameter of 'being in the experience'... (more)
Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity: Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder: Second Edition
This revised edition investigates the still unaddressed and unexplored subject of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). With brand new chapters on police work and attachment theory it has been fully... (more)
Lost in Transmission: Studies of Trauma Across Generations
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)
Trauma and the Avoidant Client: Attachment-Based Strategies for Healing
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)
8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery: Take-Charge Strategies to Empower Your Healing
Trauma recovery is tricky; however, there are several key principles that can help make the process safe and effective. This book gives self help readers, therapy clients, and therapists alike the... (more)
Prolonged Exposure Therapy for Adolescents With PTSD: Emotional Processing of Traumatic Experiences: Therapist Guide
Traumatic events, including sexual abuse, experiencing or witnessing violence, and natural disasters, are common among adolescents. A significant number of adolescents go on to develop posttraumatic... (more)
Anxiety and Mood Disorders Following Traumatic Brain Injury: Clinical Assessment and Psychotherapy
While there are many excellent texts addressing cognitive impairment and behavioural difficulties and on rehabilitation associated with traumatic brain injury, few textbooks specifically address the... (more)
Relating to Self-harm and Suicide: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Practice, Theory and Prevention
Relating to Self-Harm and Suicide presents original studies and research from contemporary psychoanalysts, therapists and academics focusing on the psychoanalytic understanding of suicide and... (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)
The Perversion of Loss: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Trauma
This book is an edited collection of psychoanalytic papers written by clinicians in the field of trauma. The text offers a psychoanalytic perspective on trauma and its effects on psychic functioning.... (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)
The Handbook of Complex Trauma and Dissociation in Children: Theory, Research, and Clinical Applications
The Handbook of Complex Trauma and Dissociation in Children is a comprehensive and truly vital text for both experienced professionals and novice clinicians alike.
In these pages, dozens of... (more)
Ferenczi's Confusion of Tongues Theory of Trauma: A Relational Neurobiological Perspective
Arnold W. Rachman and Clara Mucci provide a detailed examination of the significance of Sándor Ferenczi’s paradigm shifting theory of trauma, the Confusion of Tongues, and confirm its relevance for... (more)
Dance/Movement Therapy and Sexual Abuse: Assessment and Intervention Based on Body-Mind Approaches
Dance/Movement Therapy and Sexual Abuse addresses the vital role dance/movement therapy plays in helping survivors of sexual abuse.
Comprising ten chapters, the book describes assessment,... (more)
What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
Oprah Winfrey and renowned brain development and trauma expert, Dr Bruce Perry, discuss the impact of trauma and adverse experiences and how healing must begin with a shift to asking 'What happened... (more)