Trauma and Violence Books
Interventions Following Mass Violence and Disasters: Strategies for Mental Health Practice
Bringing together over 40 leading experts in disaster mental health, this essential volume presents practical clinical guidelines grounded in the best science available. The focus is on what... (more)
A War of Nerves: Soldiers and Psychiatrists 1914-1994
A history of 20th-century military psychiatry, drawing on a range of sources such as medical papers and official records. The topics covered range from World War I "shell shock" to the psychological... (more)
New Families, Old Scripts: A Guide to the Language of Trauma and Attachment in Adoptive Families
Most adopted children and their families will, sooner or later, encounter the challenges of dealing with unresolved attachment issues or early traumatic experiences. "New Families, Old Scripts" is an... (more)
Beyond Invisible Walls; The Psychological Legacy of Soviet Trauma, East European Therapists and Their Patients
In Beyond Invisible Walls, East European therapists, themselves, draw a compelling picture of the waves of trauma that their people endured, the institutions of trauma that remained well after... (more)
Bullying in Adulthood: Assessing the Bullies and their Victims
Peter Randall's first book, Adult Bullying, was one of the first books to examine the various situations in which adult bullying occurs, the forms it takes, and how it can be identified and dealt... (more)
Hysterical Men: War, Psychiatry, and the Politics of Trauma in Germany, 1890-1930
This title will be of considerable relevance to communities of readers interested in the history of psychiatry, war psychiatry, and hysteria. An original, lucid, well organised and superbly... (more)
Trauma and Recovery: From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
A ground-breaking work in which the author makes the revolutionary link between the 'heroic' suffering of men in war and political struggle and the degraded suffering of women who are victims of... (more)
A Short Journey into Trauma: Understanding and Coping with Post-Traumatic-Stress
This book aims to challenge and change unhelpful attitudes to those who suffer traumatic reactions, to show that they are not signs of weakness or a personality disorder and that there is... (more)
Helping Babies and Children Aged 0-6 to Heal After Family Violence: A Practical Guide to Infant- and Child-Led Work
After family violence, very young children and babies benefit from child-led therapy, but how do you achieve this? Dr Wendy Bunston's guide is here to help you to meet the emotional needs of children... (more)
Innovative Therapeutic Life Story Work: Developing Trauma-Informed Practice for Working with Children, Adolescents and Young Adults
Life story work is an approach designed to enable traumatized children to explore, question and understand the past events of their lives. It aims to secure their future by strengthening attachment... (more)
Traumatic Narcissism: Relational Systems of Subjugation
In this volume, Daniel Shaw presents a way of understanding the traumatic impact of narcissism as it is engendered developmentally, and as it is enacted relationally. Focusing on the dynamics of... (more)
Healing Sexually Betrayed Men and Boys: Treatment for Sexual Abuse, Assault, and Trauma
Healing Sexually Betrayed Men and Boys is the new authoritative source for treatment of men and boys with histories of sexual victimization. Male victims and survivors of sexual trauma lived in... (more)
Understanding the Sexual Betrayal of Boys and Men: The Trauma of Sexual Abuse
Understanding the Sexual Betrayal of Boys and Men: The Trauma of Sexual Abuse is an indispensable go-to book for understanding male sexual victimization. It has become increasingly clear since the... (more)
Through a Trauma Lens: Transforming Health and Behavioral Health Systems
Through a Trauma Lens aims to understand and highlight successful examples of health, mental health, substance abuse treatment, and other service delivery systems that have implemented an integrated... (more)
Mothering Babies In Domestic Violence: Beyond Attachment Theory
Drawing on in-depth interviews and group discussions, this timely book sheds new light on the impact of domestic violence on the formation of mother/infant relationships by placing women's... (more)
Foundations for Attachment Training Resource: The Six-Session Programme for Parents of Traumatized Children
Foundations for Attachment Training Resource is a 6-session programme to help parents and carers to nurture attachments with their child. It is designed specifically for those caring for children... (more)
Creative Therapies for Complex Trauma: Helping Children and Families in Foster Care, Kinship Care or Adoption
A burgeoning evidence base supports that arts, play and other creative therapies have potential to help children in foster care, kinship care or adoptive families to recover from complex trauma.... (more)
Post-Traumatic Stress: The Facts: Second Edition
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to one or more traumatic events. It is a severe and ongoing emotional reaction to extreme psychological... (more)
Intimate Violence and Abuse in Families: Fourth Edition
This Fourth Edition of Intimate Violence and Abuse in Families updates a best-selling core text in the field of intimate violence and child maltreatment. New features include: a Global Perspectives... (more)
Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a prevalent, debilitating public health problem. Cognitive behavioral therapies (CBTs), and specifically exposure-based therapy, have long dominated PTSD... (more)
Neurobiology of PTSD: From Brain to Mind
Neurobiology of PTSD outlines the basic neural mechanisms that mediate complex responses and adaptations to psychological trauma, describing how these biological processes are impaired in individuals... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Holocaust Testimony: Unwanted Memories of Social Trauma
Psychoanalytic work with socially traumatised patients is an increasingly popular vocation, but remains extremely demanding and little covered in the literature. In Psychoanalysis and Holocaust... (more)
Finding Unconscious Fantasy in Narrative, Trauma, and Body Pain: A Clinical Guide
Finding Unconscious Fantasy in Narrative, Trauma and Body Pain: A Clinical Guide demonstrates that the concept of the unconscious is profoundly relevant for understanding the mind, psychic pain and... (more)
Art Therapy with Military Populations: History, Innovation, and Applications
For decades, art therapy has proved to be practical treatment for veterans and other military populations suffering from trauma. Art Therapy with Military Populations provides an in-depth overview of... (more)
Military Veteran Psychological Health and Social Care: Contemporary Issues
When servicewomen and men leave the armed forces, their care transfers to the statutory and third sector where the quality and provision of services can vary enormously. This edited book,... (more)
Female-Perpetrated Sex Abuse: Knowledge, Power, and the Cultural Conditions of Victimhood
Female-Perpetrated Sex Abuse is a groundbreaking study into gender, sexuality and victimhood. It examines the cultural conditions of possibility for FSA victimhood as a means to advance contemporary... (more)