Trauma and Violence Books
Home Truths about Domestic Violence: Feminist Influences on Policy and Practices: A Reader
This text draws on contributions from academics and professionals to examine the nature and extent of domestic violence, its effects upon children, social policy and the feminist viewpoint,... (more)
A Bright Red Scream: Self-mutilation and the language of pain
An investigation of why so many people self-mutilate and what can be done to help them. The illness, "outed" on a global scale when Princess Diana admitted hurting herself deliberately, is practised... (more)
Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing the Roots of Violence
When Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing the Roots of Violence was first published, it was lauded for providing scientific evidence that violence can originate in the womb and become entrenched in a... (more)
The Relational Trauma of Incest: An integrated family-based approach to treatment
This volume presents an innovative approach to navigating the painful confusions and dilemmas experienced by families in which incest has occurred. Integrating social constructionist, feminist, and... (more)
Post-traumatic stress disorder in children and adolescents
A scholarly, multidisciplinary and comprehensive introduction to the field of post-traumatic stress disorder in children and adolescents, along with its clinical assessment and treatment. It is... (more)
Male Victims of Sexual Assault
This work reports on the first epidemiological study of male sexual victimization in Europe and challenges the stereotype of gay men as sexual predators. It discusses male rape in prisons,... (more)
Stress and Trauma
Stress and Trauma provides a well-written, accessible overview of traumatic stress studies. It reviews the full range of clinical disorders that may result from extreme stress, with particular... (more)
Loss and trauma: General and close relationship perspectives
The book begins with an analysis of the concepts of trauma and loss and then examines them in specfic populations. The loss of family and friends is also discussed. 415 pages. (more)
Give sorrow words: Perspectives on loss and trauma
This book offers students, researchers, and practitioners an extensive introduction to the field of loss and trauma. 247 pages. (more)
Father-daughter incest
Through a study of forty incest victims and interviews with professionals in mental health, child protection and law enforcement, the author develops a picture of the incestuous family. She also... (more)
Narrative Approaches to Working With Adult Male Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse: The Clients’, the Counsellor’s and the Researcher’s Story
Presents first-hand accounts from two male survivors of childhood sexual abuse and from the counsellor who worked with them. The author describes the counsellor's perspective, and draws out the... (more)
Resolving childhood trauma: A long-term study of abuse survivors
An engaging and compassionate book which provides a hopeful and helpful perspective for trauma survivors. The author's extensive and innovative research with child abuse survivors also provides... (more)
Good Practice in Working with Victims of Violence
Drawing on the experiences of practitioners from a range of backgrounds, this text is a comprehensive study of real or threatened physical violence and its consequences. Personal accounts of children... (more)
EMDR and psychotherapy integration: Theoretical and clinical suggestions with focus on traumatic stress
This text is the culmination of therapeutic work begun in 1972 that, at the end of the 20th century, is finally being recognized as a viable assessment and treatment tool. It is primarily concerned... (more)
Children of Social Trauma: Hungarian Psychoanalytic Case Studies
Observing the ways in which a large group of people may experience collective trauma, which can have identifiable effects in succeeding generations, the author has pioneered individual and group... (more)
Childhood Experiences of Domestic Violence
A discussion of first-hand accounts from children and young people regarding their experiences of both domestic violence and the support services. Based on a three-year research project, it seeks to... (more)
Trauma and memory: Clinical and legal controversies
This book is a comprehensive, scholarly, and balanced guide to the controversies revolving around recovered trauma memories, especially childhood sexual abuse. The contributors provide a road map to... (more)
Attachment Theory, Child Maltreatment and Family Support: A Practice and Assessment Model
This text offers a comprehensive account of how social developmental perspectives and attachment theory can illuminate practice in the field of child protection and family support. It moves from an... (more)
Violence: Reflections on Our Deadliest Epidemic
This work lays the foundation for a complete rethinking of the nature and meaning of violence in society. The author reveals the motives of men who commit violent crimes and men who not only kill... (more)
Cutting: Understanding and overcoming self-mutilation
This work, written for self-mutilators, parents, friends, therapists, explains why the disorder manifests in self-harming behaviour and describes how the self-mutilator can be helped. 256 pages. (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)
Honoring Differences: Cultural Issues in the Treatment of Trauma and Loss
This book opens a new chapter in the emerging story of traumatology. It helps us move beyond our Western conceptions of trauma and its consequences and cures. It provides blueprints for effectively... (more)
Children and Young People who Sexually Abuse Others: Challenges and Responses: Second Edition
Presents key research findings about incidence, prevalence and characteristics of young sexual abusers. The text includes issues such as policy and sevice development, particularly in the context of... (more)
Overcoming Childhood Trauma
This book will help the sufferer understand the links between past trauma and present difficulties and offers ways to gain control over these problems, allowing the individual to deal with intrusive... (more)
Betrayed as Boys: Psychodynamic Treatment of Sexually Abused Men
In the growing professional literature on child sexual abuse, few books focus specifically on the experience of victimized boys and men. Interweaving vital elements of psychodynamic and... (more)
Violence in Intimate Relationships:
This book examines the roots of violence between spouses, identifies the pre-cursors to wife-beating and asks who are the victims of domestic abuse? It also explores the psychological characteristics... (more)
Standing in the Spaces: Essays on Clinical Process, Trauma and Dissociation
These collected papers constitute the unfolding of a clinical perspective - a series of reflections on the analytical relationship with its own implicit order, its own progression of ideas and its... (more)
Psychodynamic Perspectives on Abuse: The Cost of Fear
This book brings together contributions on abuse from writers working in social policy, social work, and psychotherapy, and explores the nature and ramifications of abuse in a new light. (more)
Trauma and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
This is the first comprehensive reader in a new area of counselling. It brings together well-known authors on traumatic stress responses and good counselling practice, as well as new material... (more)
Stress and emotion: A new synthesis
This work explores the latest findings and trends in research and theory and considers a narrative approach to both. It covers topics such as: work and family stress; chronic stress; PTSD; stress in... (more)