Trauma and Violence Books
The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
Aimed at women who have been victims of sexual abuse as children, this book offers advice on coming to terms with the past while moving positively into the future, and provides an explanation of the... (more)
Traumatic grief: Diagnosis, treatment, and prevention
Traumatic grief is an emerging disorder. This is the first book for clinicians that presents and discusses diagnostic criteria and evidence-based treatment for this disorder. 112 pages. (more)
The Therapist's Emotional Survival: Dealing with the Pain of Exploring Trauma
This book explores the private thoughts of the therapist in response to the patient's inner expressions and how each affects the other over the course of treatment. Perlman documents his own journey... (more)
From survival to fulfilment: A framework for traumatology
Paul Valent sees that the dialectic is not between "life and death" but between "life and trauma". This text theorizes that the big issues of life can now be approached through the science of... (more)
Traumatology of grieving: Conceptual, theoretical, and treatment foundations
This work focuses on death-related PTSD, distinguishing those who have suffered 'simple bereavement' from those who are suffering not only from the death of a loved one, but also from the knowledge... (more)
Group treatment for post traumatic stress disorder: Conceptualization, themes and processes
This text explores the concepts, themes and processes of group treatment for post traumatic stress disorder. (more)
Coping with catastrophe: A handbook of post-disaster psychological aftercare
A handbook for people who provide psychosocial aftercare for victims of disasters. This edition presents findings on the nature and effects of trauma, the psychological debriefing process and the... (more)
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies for Trauma: Second Edition
Significantly revised and restructured to reflect major developments in the field, the expanded second edition of this important work is essentially a new book. The volume presents cutting-edge... (more)
Perspectives on loss: A sourcebook
A distinguished collection of writings representing psychology and related fields. Each author presents a case for a broadly-construed field of loss - both personal and interpersonal - that would... (more)
Memory in Dispute
'This is a much-needed book - experienced clinicians writing intelligently about one of the most fraught and complex clinical problems facing psychotherapy today. We have patients who are suffering... (more)
Counselling and therapy with refugees and victims of trauma: Psychological problems of victims of war, torture and repression
The well-being of refugees displaced by war, disaster or repression is a concern worldwide, but particularly in Europe where mental health practitioners and services need special provision for them.... (more)
Adults abused as children: Experiences of counselling and psychotherapy
This book brings together the experiences of both clients and therapists working with those who have suffered childhood abuse. It consolidates existing knowledge about child abuse and psycho-
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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)
Men Who Batter Women
Considering both feminist approaches to male violence, and those perspectives which treat violent behaviour as psychologically pathological, the author explores how depth psychology can be used to... (more)
Rethinking the trauma of war
Written by professionals involved in helping victims of trauma in various war-torn areas of the world, this book examines emerging concerns about the export of trauma experts to those areas, and... (more)
Wednesday's Child: Research into Women's Experience of Neglect and Abuse in Childhood, and Adult Depression
This volume argues that as many as one in four women have suffered neglect or abuse in childhood, doubling the likelihood of their suffering clinical depression in adult life. It examines the reasons... (more)
Trauma and Fulfilment Therapy: A Wholist Framework
Trauma results in a wide variety of human unhappiness. In parallel, treatment of the consequences of trauma ranges from drugs, to single session psychological techniques, to management and cognitive... (more)
Acts of Abuse: Sex offenders and the criminal justice system
An exploration of responses from the judicial system to the explosion of media interest in sexual crimes. This study uses current data on the causes, and charts the reactions of the services dealing... (more)
Remembering Trauma: A Psychotherapist's Guide to Memory and Illusion
This review of the controversy surrounding recovered memory relates the issues to a range of psychological therapies (not just psychoanalysis) and goes beyond the debate in order to demonstrate the... (more)
Recovered Memories of Abuse: True or False?
These papers - from a conference with the same title - includes work by Lawrence Weiskrant (highlighting the concerns around false memories), John Morton (outlining contemporary models of memory),... (more)
Understanding Post-traumatic Stress: A Psychosocial Perspective on PTSD and Treatment
This volume summarizes developments in theory and research in post-traumatic stress disorder and, drawing on personality and social psychological literature, presents an integrative model of... (more)
Sexual Abuse: The Child's Voice: Poppies on the Rubbish Heap
In this work the author shows how abuse can affect the mental well-being of children, and how the repair of the child's trust in adults is crucial to the process of healing. The counselling process... (more)
Transforming Trauma: EMDR
Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) has helped thousands of people haunted by abusive histories or trauma. EMDR therapy incorporates eye movements into a comprehensive approach that... (more)
Working with Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
Elsa Jones, working from the Family Institute in Cardiff, has been treating adult survivors of child sexual and physical abuse for several years, and she has clearly and frankly described her work in... (more)
Trauma-Organized Systems: Physical and Sexual Abuse in Families
This book is about the experience of individuals who have been abused or who have abused others, but it also traces the way an abusive experience can organize a family or professional system so that... (more)