Trauma and Violence Books
When Father Kills Mother: Guiding Children Through Trauma and Grief: Second Edition
Second edition. Describes the effect on children of bereavement caused by the death of one parent at the hands of the other. Such children effectively lose both parents and are often forgotten in the... (more)
Transforming the Pain: Workbook on Vicarious Traumatization
'Vicarious traumatization' is the traumatization of a helper's inner experience, which results from empathic engagement with traumatized clients. This workbook provides tools for self-assessment,... (more)
The Inner World of Trauma: Archetypal Defences of the Personal Spirit
This work deals with the psychoanalytic interpretation of trauma, with respect to the views of Carl Jung. Kalsched shows the value of Jung's insights in treating traumatized patients, and proposes... (more)
Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through Childhood Trauma
Argues that many recovered memories have their source in primitive anxieties, and that it is easy for the therapist and the client to externalise the past onto supposed perpetrators, under the... (more)
Treating the Adult Survivor of Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
Entering the tumultuous, dissociated world of the adult survivor of childhood sexual abuse presents an intimidating challenge for clinicians. But as the authors of this innovative book argue,... (more)
Breaking Down the Wall of Silence: To Join the Waiting Child
Psychohistorical analyses of such tyrants as Hitler, Stalin and Ceausescu have shown the links between the horrors of their childhoods and that which they inflict on the world. In this text, Miller... (more)
Violent Attachments
Examines the diagnosis of individuals who show physical violence as a manifestation of their emotional attachments. (more)
Multiple Selves, Multiple Voices: Working with Trauma, Violation and Dissociation
This volume describes ways of understanding the large group of patients who suffer from trauma-based dissociative disorders. The author explores the implications of working with personalities whose... (more)
Trauma, PTSD and Eating Disorders
This book outlines the state of the literature on the intersection between trauma exposure, PTSD, and eating disorders, and provides several new research updates in this area. The functional... (more)
Racial Trauma in Black Clients: Effective Practice for Clinicians
Understanding and addressing the impact of racial trauma is vital for providing culturally responsive, trauma-informed care. This book explores how racial stressors affect all aspects of Black... (more)
Relational and Body-Centered Practices for Healing Trauma: Lifting the Burdens of the Past
Relational and Body-Centered Practices for Healing Trauma provides psychotherapists and other helping professionals with a groundbreaking body-based model for treating trauma. The second edition... (more)
Dissociation and the Dynamics of Personality: Trauma, Consciousness, and Culture
Dissociation and the Dynamics of Personality addresses the nature of personality in trauma-dissociation and proposes a dynamic understanding of persons that fundamentally challenges conventional... (more)
Sexual Violence, Dissociation, and Inequality: A Guide to Understanding Traumatic Memory
Sexual Violence, Dissociation, and Inequality is a book about traumatic memory—or how lived trauma is repeated by victims as if happening again.
The author, internationally renowned psychiatrist... (more)
A Professional's Guide to Working with Vulnerable and Traumatised Children: The Healing Circle
This book presents “The Circle of Safety and Reconnection”, a compassionate reflection model for working with vulnerable and traumatised children and young people in a nurturing way, providing hope... (more)
When Religion Hurts You - Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
Religious trauma is something that happens far more often than most people realize. But religious trauma is trauma.
In When Religion Hurts You, Dr. Laura Anderson takes an honest look at a side... (more)
Life After Brain Injury: Survivors' Stories
This is the first book of its kind to include the personal accounts of people who have survived injury to the brain, along with professional therapists' reports of their progress through... (more)
Blossoming Into Disability Culture Following Traumatic Brain Injury: The Lotus Arising
This book tells the author’s story of her ten-year journey of recovery and identity transformation from Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Dr. Dee is a survivor who regained the ability to articulate what... (more)
Complex and Traumatic Loss: Fostering Healing and Resilience
In this needed practice and training guide for all mental health professionals, Froma Walsh presents a research-informed, resilience-oriented approach to help individuals, couples, and families who... (more)
A Trauma-Informed Understanding of Online Offending: Adult Losses from Adolescent Searches
This book examines the contemporary one-size-fits-all model of treatment for sexual offenders and challenges the confrontational approach to working with this group.
In recent years, the... (more)
Holographic Reprocessing for Healing Trauma, Abuse, and Maltreatment
Holographic Reprocessing for Healing Trauma, Abuse, and Maltreatment facilitates constructive reorganization of the perception of trauma which in turn, modifies associated emotional and behavioral... (more)
Trauma and Pain Without a Subject: Disruptive Marks in the Psyche, Resignified
Trauma and Pain Without a Subject explores the necessity of the subject of trauma emerging, particularly when a victim has experienced but not worked through disruptive situations, in order for... (more)
Trauma and Its Impacts on Temporal Experience: New Perspectives from Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis
This unique text develops an original theoretical framework for understanding the relationship between trauma and time by combining phenomenological and psychoanalytical traditions.
Moving... (more)
Trauma and the Supernatural in Psychotherapy: Working with the Curse Position in Clinical Practice
Trauma and the Supernatural in Psychotherapy explores how traumatic experience interacts with unconscious phantasy based in folklore, the supernatural, and the occult. Drawing upon psychoanalysis,... (more)
Traumatization and Its Aftermath: A Systemic Approach to Understanding and Treating Trauma Disorders
Traumatization and Its Aftermath delves deep into the complexities of traumatization and is a practical, comprehensive guide to understanding and overcoming the impacts of adverse... (more)
Sand Therapy for Out of Control Sexual Behavior, Shame, and Trauma: Treatment Approaches Beyond Words
This book is designed to educate sex therapists and mental health professionals on the power of using sand when treating sexual issues, providing guidance in accessing their clients’ unconscious to... (more)
Trauma, Psychoanalysis and History
Located at the crossroads of psychoanalysis and history, this book investigates the ambiguous concept of trauma and the changes to its formulation and use between the years 1866 and 1939.
Luis... (more)
Avenging Child Sex Abuse: Vigilante Violence in Prisons and the Community
This book explores the subjects of child sex abuse, flaws in the justice system, cultural support for vigilantism, prison violence, and the socio-legal philosophy of punishment. Child sex abuse... (more)
Developmental Trauma: Theory, Research and Practice
Developmental Trauma offers a comprehensive introduction to the research findings that help us understand the effects on human development of early childhood trauma and adaptation to stress. It... (more)
Psychoanalysis, COVID and Mass Trauma: The Trauma of Reality
In this book, constructed as a psychoanalytic diary, the authors reflect on clinical observations from their work with patients during the COVID-19 pandemic, tracking these singular experiences to... (more)