Trauma and Violence Books
When the Dust Settles: Stories of Love, Loss and Hope from an Expert in Disaster
Lucy Easthope lives with disaster every day. When a plane crashes, a bomb explodes, a city floods or a pandemic begins, she's the one they call.
Lucy is a world-leading authority on recovering... (more)
Postnatal PTSD: A Guide for Health Professionals
Postnatal PTSD, often referred to as birth trauma, is an underdiagnosed and misunderstood condition. Often mistaken for postnatal depression and with 4% of women developing the condition after giving... (more)
The Myth of Closure: Ambiguous Loss in a Time of Pandemic and Change
How do we begin to cope with loss that cannot be resolved?
The COVID-19 pandemic has left many of us haunted by feelings of anxiety, despair and even anger. In this book, pioneering therapist,... (more)
The Wounded Healer: The Pain and Joy of Caregiving
Finding meaning in trauma work, as a traumatised healer yourself.
The act of caregiving is physically exhausting and emotionally draining, yet caregivers describe it as rewarding and gratifying.... (more)
Our Anxious Selves: Neuropsychological Processes and their Enduring Influence on Who We Are
Discussing the outsized role that fear, anxiety and other distressing emotions play in forming fundamental aspects of who we are.
Adverse experiences inevitably happen during development and... (more)
The Strange and Curious Guide to Trauma
'Our book about trauma features buzzy bees stuck in your tummy, yes, and also science and superheroes, carrots and lambs, lollies and, unfortunately for me, baboons...'
Join Ordinary Jo, some... (more)
Pandemics, Wars, Traumas and Literature: Echoes from the Front Lines
This book presents unique insights into the experiences of frontline medical workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, psychoanalytic work with trauma and perspectives from literature.
Part One... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Maternal Absence: From the Traumatic to Faith and Trust
Experience of maternal absence manifests in a variety of ways and this book explores a selection of its emotional, psychical, and somatic consequences as they relate to an individual's relationship... (more)
Psycho-social Explorations of Trauma, Exclusion and Violence: Un-housed Minds and Inhospitable Environments
The central theme of this book is the operation of intersecting discourses of power, privilege and positioning as they are revealed in fraught encounters between in-groups and out-groups in our... (more)
Shame, Pride, and Relational Trauma: Concepts and Psychotherapy
Shame, Pride, and Relational Trauma is a guide to recognizing the many ways shame and pride lie at the heart of psychotherapy with survivors of relational trauma. In these pages, readers learn how to... (more)
Personalising Trauma Treatment: Reframing and Reimagining
Personalising Trauma Treatment is about helping trauma victims back to their old selves and focuses on altering the perception of the centrality of the trauma.
In this book, clients are... (more)
Collective Trauma, Collective Healing: Promoting Community Resilience in the Aftermath of Disaster
Collective Trauma, Collective Healing is a guide for mental health professionals working in response to large-scale political violence or natural disaster. It provides a framework that practitioners... (more)
An Existential Approach to Interpersonal Trauma: Modes of Existing and Confrontations with Reality
An Existential Approach to Interpersonal Trauma provides a new existential framework for understanding the experiences of interpersonal trauma building on reflections from Marc Boaz's own personal... (more)
Psychosis and The Traumatised Self: Understanding and Change
Psychosis and The Traumatised Self explores what it is like to experience psychosis for individuals with histories of childhood physical and sexual abuse.
The book additionally explores how... (more)
Trauma-Informed Forensic Practice
Trauma-Informed Forensic Practice argues for placing trauma-informed practice and thinking at the heart of forensic services. It is written by forensic practitioners and service users from prison and... (more)
Embodied Trauma and Healing: Critical Conversations on the Concept of Health
What if philosophy could solve the psychological puzzle of trauma? Embodied Trauma and Healing argues just that, suggesting that one might be needed in order to understand the other. The book... (more)
Torture, Inhumanity and Degradation under Article 3 of the ECHR: Absolute Rights and Absolute Wrongs
This book theorises and concretises the idea of 'absolute rights' in human rights law with a focus on Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). It unpacks how we might understand... (more)
Understanding Dissociative Identity Disorder: A Guidebook for Survivors and Practitioners
This accessible guidebook has been created to be used alongside the picture book, Our House: Making Sense of Dissociative Identity Disorder, as a broad introduction to childhood trauma and its... (more)
Art Therapy in Response to Natural Disasters, Mass Violence, and Crises
With contributions from a range of expert voices within the field, this book explores the use of art therapy as a response to traumatic events. Offering rare insight into ways in which art therapists... (more)
Treating Children with Dissociative Disorders: Attachment, Trauma, Theory and Practice
This book provides a comprehensive overview of research into dissociation in children and adolescents and challenges conventional ideas about complex behaviours.
Offering a new perspective to... (more)
Mindfulness and Meditation in Trauma Treatment: The Inner Resources for Stress Program
This complete therapist guide presents an evidence-based group program developed over two decades to support resilience and recovery in people who have experienced trauma. Inner Resources for Stress... (more)
Trauma and Intellectual Disability: Acknowledgement, Identification and Intervention: Acknowledgement, Identification & Intervention
This book is about Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) for people who have intellectual disabilities (ID). The provision of health and social care services is becoming more trauma informed, including in... (more)
Using Image and Narrative in Therapy for Trauma, Addiction and Recovery
With contributions from well-respected figures in the field, this book explores the use of narrative and image in the therapeutic treatment of trauma and addiction.
The book considers topics... (more)
Creative Interventions with Traumatized Children: Second Edition
A trusted, comprehensive resource, this volume demonstrates a range of creative approaches for facilitating children's emotional reparation and recovery from trauma. Experts in play, art, music,... (more)
Treating Adult Survivors of Childhood Emotional Abuse and Neglect: Component-Based Psychotherapy
Grounded in 40 years of clinical practice and research, this book provides a systematic yet flexible evidence-informed framework for treating adult survivors of complex trauma, particularly those... (more)
Cultural Clinical Psychology and PTSD
This book, written and edited by leading experts from around the world, looks critically at how culture impacts on the way posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and related disorders are diagnosed and... (more)
Our House: Making Sense of Dissociative Identity Disorder
Our House tells the story of a child who has experienced something that children should never have to experience. It introduces the reader to the people who arrived to help them cope with the bad... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Society's Neglect of the Sexual Abuse of Children, Youth and Adults: Re-addressing Freud's Original Theory of Sexual Abuse and Trauma
This book takes a comprehensive look at the understanding and treatment of child sexual abuse in psychoanalytic theory and practice, and in society as a whole.
This book will demonstrate how... (more)
Using Trauma-Focused Therapy Stories: Interventions for Therapists, Children, and Their Caregivers
Using Trauma-Focused Therapy Stories is a groundbreaking treatment resource for trauma-informed therapists who work with abused and neglected children ages nine years and older as well as their... (more)
Psychoanalysis in Social and Cultural Settings: Upheavals and Resilience
Psychoanalysis in Social and Cultural Settings examines the theory and practice of psychoanalysis with patients who have experienced deeply traumatic experiences through war, forced migrations,... (more)