Trauma and Violence Books
Post-traumatic Attachments to the Eerily Moving Image: Something to Watch Over Me
This book explores how experiences of traumatic isolation and neglect - in childhood and in adulthood, and at both the family and the state level - may create a desire in us to be parented by certain... (more)
Working with the Developmental Trauma of Childhood Neglect: Using Psychotherapy and Attachment Theory Techniques in Clinical Practice
This book provides psychotherapists with a multidimensional view of childhood neglect and a practical roadmap for facilitating survivors' healing.
Working from a strong base in attachment... (more)
The Change Process in Psychotherapy During Troubling Times
The Change Process in Psychotherapy During Troubling Times invites readers to consider what it is psychotherapists do that leads to change. The book highlights different theoretical approaches,... (more)
Psychotherapy with Survivors of Sexual Violence: Inside and Outside the Room
The role of psychotherapists in creating change for survivors of sexual violence can extend far wider than the rooms in which appointments are provided. Psychotherapy with Survivors of Sexual... (more)
Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society: Bridging Research and Practice
Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society is the authoritative guide to the study of and work with major themes in bereavement. The classic edition includes a new preface from the lead editors... (more)
Toxic Childhood Stress: The Legacy of Early Trauma and How to Heal
*Previously published as The Deepest Well*
'Finally after thirty years, I finally understood . . . this book holds the answers you've been searching for.' Kerry Hudson
The Surgeon General... (more)
Revolutionizing Trauma Treatment: Phased Recovery via Sensory & Autonomic Balance: Stabilization, Safety, & Nervous System Balance
Being able to monitor and modulate a trauma client's dysregulated nervous system is one of the practitioner's best lines of defence against traumatic hyperarousal going amok-risking consequences such... (more)
Trauma and Grief Assessment and Intervention: Building on Strengths
With clarity and eloquence, Trauma and Grief Assessment and Intervention comprehensively captures the nuance and complexity involved in counseling bereaved and traumatically bereaved persons in all... (more)
Art Therapy, Trauma, and Neuroscience: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives
Art Therapy, Trauma, and Neuroscience combines theory, research, and practice with traumatized populations in a neuroscience framework. The classic edition includes a new preface from the author... (more)
Reducing Secondary Traumatic Stress: Skills for Sustaining a Career in the Helping Professions
Reducing Secondary Traumatic Stress presents a model for supporting emotional well-being in workers who are exposed to the effects of secondary trauma. The book provides helping professionals with a... (more)
Healing from Clinical Trauma Using Creative Mindfulness Techniques: A Workbook of Tools and Applications
This workbook offers diverse strengths-based tools to incorporate the Creative Mindfulness Technique (CMT) into clinical practice. It provides an essential understanding of the ethical scope of... (more)
Creative Mindfulness Techniques for Clinical Trauma Work: Insights and Applications for Mental Health Practitioners
Using evidence-based creative mindfulness techniques (CMT), this book acts as a useful guide for clinical mental health practitioners seeking to build resilience levels in clients recovering from... (more)
Present-Centered Group Therapy for PTSD: Embracing Today
Present-Centered Group Therapy for PTSD integrates theory, research, and practical perspectives on the manifestations of trauma, to provide an accessible, evidence-informed group treatment that... (more)
The Mystical Exodus in Jungian Perspective: Transforming Trauma and the Wellsprings of Renewal
The Mystical Exodus in Jungian Perspective explores the soul loss that results from personal, collective, and transgenerational trauma and the healing that unfolds through reconnection with the... (more)
Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection: 50 Client-Centered Practices
Deb Dana is the foremost translator of polyvagal theory into clinical practice. Here, in her third book on this groundbreaking theory, she provides therapists with a grab-bag of polyvagal-informed... (more)
Trust and Trauma: An Interdisciplinary Study in Human Nature
This interdisciplinary text brings together perspectives from leading psychoanalysts and modern Jewish philosophers to offer a unique investigation into the dynamic between the fundamental trust in... (more)
Intergenerational Complexes in Analytical Psychology: The Suffering of Ghosts
Intergenerational Complexes in Analytical Psychology: The Suffering of Ghosts draws attention to human suffering and how it relates to unacknowledged and unrecognized traumatic cultural histories... (more)
Living with Mild Brain Injury: The Difficulties of Diagnosis and Recovery from Post-Concussion Syndrome
This important book presents a unique, personal account of the impact a mild traumatic brain injury can have. It tells the story of Pauline, who was 33 when a late football tackle caused a bleed in... (more)
Life Events and Emotional Disorder Revisited: Research and Clinical Applications
Life Events and Emotional Disorder Revisited explores the variety of events that can occur, their inherent characteristics and how they affect our lives and emotions, and in turn their impact on our... (more)
Understanding the Transgenerational Legacy of Totalitarian Regimes: Paradoxes of Cultural Learning
Understanding the Transgenerational Legacy of Totalitarian Regimes examines the ways in which the cultural memory of surviving totalitarianism can continue to shape individual and collective... (more)
From Trauma to Healing: A Social Worker's Guide to Working with Survivors
This updated edition of From Trauma to Healing is a comprehensive and practical guide to working with trauma survivors in the field of social work.
Since September 11th and Hurricane Katrina,... (more)
Effective Treatments for PTSD: Practice Guidelines from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies: Third Edition
Grounded in the updated Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Prevention and Treatment Guidelines of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS), the third edition of this definitive work... (more)
Intervening After Violence: Therapy for Couples and Families
This practical text offers professional guidance on stopping domestic violence in couples and families and promoting healing and safety in its aftermath. Rich in theoretical diversity (attachment,... (more)
Preparing for Trauma Work in Clinical Mental Health: A Workbook to Enhance Self-Awareness and Promote Safe, Competent Practice
This workbook is a foundational and unique resource for clinicians preparing to work with clients affected by trauma. Chapters integrate a holistic understanding of the unique client within... (more)
Holocaust Trauma and Psychic Deformation: Psychoanalytic Reflections of a Holocaust Survivor
Written by a survivor of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, this moving and important book examines the massive psychic trauma suffered by a generation of Holocaust survivors. It not only provides... (more)
The Psychology of Extreme Violence: A Case Study Approach to Serial Homicide, Mass Shooting, School Shooting and Lone-actor Terrorism
Featuring a unique overview of the different forms of extreme violence, this book considers the psychology of extreme violence alongside a variety of contributing factors, such as brain abnormalities... (more)
Trauma in the Creative and Embodied Therapies: When Words are Not Enough
Trauma in the Creative and Embodied Therapies is a cross-professional book looking at current approaches to working therapeutically and socially with trauma in a creative and embodied way.
The... (more)
Redefining Trauma: Understanding and Coping with a Cortisoaked Brain
This accessible guide explores how our brains react to stress and offers a fresh perspective on how we define "trauma." Probing how the words we use can influence our understanding of distress, this... (more)
Treating Survivors of Childhood Abuse and Interpersonal Trauma: STAIR Narrative Therapy: Second Edition
Now revised and expanded with 50% new content reflecting important clinical refinements, this manual presents a widely used evidence-based therapy approach for adult survivors of chronic trauma.... (more)
Recovering Boarding School Trauma Narratives: Christopher Robin Milne as a Psychological Companion
Recovering Boarding School Trauma Narratives: Christopher Robin Milne as a Psychological Companion on the Journey to Healingis a unique, emotive and theorised narrative of a young girl's experience... (more)