Trauma and Violence Books
The Handbook of Clinical Intervention With Young People Who Sexually Abuse
This Handbook provides invaluable reviews of the growing body of empirical and theoretical knowledge in this field and clearly demonstrates how this knowledge can be used to guide and develop... (more)
Therapeutic Approaches in Work with Traumatized Children and Young People: Theory and Practice
Meeting weekly to discuss and review their therapeutic practice in the light of relevant theoretical approaches, the staff at the Cotswold Community produced an invaluable record of working with... (more)
Leaving You: The Cultural Meaning of Suicide
At heart, suicide is a subversive act. How is it, then, that suicide has come to be viewed as the last refuge of the self-destructive victim? This work explores the puzzle of this reigning perception... (more)
Beyond Trauma: Conversations on Traumatic Incident Reduction
This method has been effective in dealing with many areas of traumatic stress, including Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), in such diverse groups as veterans, children, 9/11 survivors, motor... (more)
Analysts in the Trenches: Streets, Schools, War Zones
This volume illustrates what socially engaged analysts can offer to violent and disturbed communities. Contributors bring anaytic expertise to bear on the emotional sequelae to violence, including... (more)
Adult Analysis and Childhood Sexual Abuse
A study of the effects of childhood sexual abuse on adult analysis. Topics covered include the sequelae of sexual maltreatment of children; the impact of incest trauma on ego development; and... (more)
Gender and PTSD:
Research and clinical observations suggest pronounced gender-based differences in the ways people respond to traumatic events. Most notably, women evidence twice the rate of PTSD as men following... (more)
The Body Remembers Casebook: Unifying Methods and Models in the Treatment of Trauma and PTSD
Each of the complex trauma cases in this volume is presented with a combination of methods ranging from traditional psychodynamic approaches and applications of attachment theory to innovative... (more)
Healing Trauma: Attachment, Mind, Body, and Brain
Leading researchers discuss cutting-edge ideas about the nature of trauma and its treatment.The contributors emphasize the ways in which the social environment, including relationships of childhood,... (more)
Trauma, the Body and Transformation: A Narrative Enquiry
Trauma suffered during childhood can affect not only a person's emotional and mental health, but also their physical health, even into adulthood. This unique book fills a gap in research in this... (more)
Seeking Safety: A Treatment Manual for PTSD and Substance Abuse
This much-needed manual presents the first empirically studied, integrative treatment approach developed specifically for PTSD and substance abuse. For persons with this prevalent and... (more)
Youth aggression and violence: A psychological approach
This text presents a comprehensive survey of causes and effective approaches to intervention and prevention for all those students, trainees and professionals concerned with aggressive children and... (more)
EMDR: A closer look: VHS video and manual
How does EMDR compare to other therapies for trauma? What is the role of the eye movements? What does the research indicate about EMDR's efficacy? Addressing these key questions and more, this video... (more)
Family sexual abuse: Frontline research and evaluation
This valuable book reviews and discusses the latest research on family sexual abuse. With contributions by both practitioners and researchers, it covers such issues as sibling incest; the background... (more)
Energy Psychology in Psychotherapy: A Comprehensive Source Book
This text provides a complete overview of the field of energy psychology. Written by participants in the field, the chapters cover a range of cutting-edge treatment applications. (more)
Trauma: Culture, Meaning and Philosophy
This volume argues that there are serious problems inherent in contemporary conceptualizations of how people react to trauma and the therapeutic responses developed. Drawing on anthropology,... (more)
Light in the heart of darkness: EMDR and the treatment of war and terrorism survivors
This text addresses issues confronted by clinicians attempting to respond to the psychological aftermath of man's inhumanity to man. Focusing on the application of EMDR to survivors' traumatic... (more)
The international handbook of suicide and attempted suicide:
This book is an international text on understanding, treating and preventing suicidal behaviour. It explores concepts and theories which best guide work within this field and covers key research... (more)
Intimacy and Alienation: Memory, Trauma and Personal Being
New in paperback. Drawing on self psychology, attachment therapy and theories of trauma, this book looks at the nature of self and how it develops, then goes on to explore the form and feeling of... (more)
Traumatic pasts: History, psychiatry, and trauma in the modern Age, 1870-1930
This text offers a variety of perspectives on mental trauma in war, medicine, culture, and society in modern European and American history. The book operates on the premise that the historical... (more)
Perspectives on loss and trauma: Assaults on the self
An introductory text to this broad interdisciplinary field by one of its leading exponents. Where most texts concentrate on one specific area, such as death and dying or stress and coping, this work... (more)
