Trauma and Violence Books
Mindfulness Skills for Trauma and PTSD: Practices for Recovery and Resilience
Trauma touches every life, but the way that we hold our pain makes a difference. Mindfulness Skills for Trauma and PTSD provides user-friendly descriptions of the many facets of traumatic stress... (more)
Attachment-Based Yoga and Meditation for Trauma Recovery: Simple, Safe, and Effective Practices for Therapy
This book offers an array of yoga, mind-body and attachment-based skills for therapists to use with, and teach their clients. The skills are organised around key trauma issues and symptoms, such as... (more)
Treating Trauma-Related Dissociation: A Practical, Integrative Approach
Therapists around the world ask similar questions and struggle with similar challenges treating highly dissociative patients. This book arose not only out of countless hours of treating patients with... (more)
Posttraumatic Play in Children: What Clinicians Need to Know
From leading expert Eliana Gil, this book provides child clinicians with essential knowledge and tools for evaluating and working with posttraumatic play. Such play, which is often repetitive and... (more)
Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD: A Comprehensive Manual
The culmination of more than 25 years of clinical work and research, this is the authoritative presentation of cognitive processing therapy (CPT) for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Written by... (more)
Treating Trauma in Adolescents: Development, Attachment, and the Therapeutic Relationship
This book presents an innovative and empathic approach to working with traumatized teens. It offers strategies for getting through to high-risk adolescents and for building a strong attachment... (more)
Treating Trauma and Traumatic Grief in Children and Adolescents: Second Edition
This authoritative guide has introduced many tens of thousands of clinicians to trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy (TF-CBT), a leading evidence-based treatment for traumatized children and... (more)
Dissociation, Mindfulness, and Creative Meditations: Trauma-Informed Practices to Facilitate Growth
Dissociation, Mindfulness, and Creative Meditations explores the potential of mindfulness and explains why this level of developmental human achievement is so precarious within traumatic stress,... (more)
Handbook of Traumatic Loss: A Guide to Theory and Practice
The Handbook of Traumatic Loss adopts a broad, holistic approach that recognizes traumatic loss much more fully as a multidimensional human phenomenon, not simply a medical condition. Initial... (more)
Violence in America: Group Therapists Reflect on Causes and Solutions
Violence is a growing problem in American society, and hardly a day goes by that we don't hear about yet another heart-wrenching episode of mass violence. Such events, unfortunately, are only the... (more)
Holistic Therapy for People with Dissociative Identity Disorder
This book puts forward a model of therapy and support for people with DID that provides individual therapy, staff support, and a safe place to live. It relies upon the ideas of Bowlby by providing a... (more)
It Wasn't Your Fault: Freeing Yourself from the Shame of Childhood Abuse with the Power of Self-Compassion
Shame is one of the most destructive of human emotions. If you suffered childhood physical or sexual abuse, you may experience such intense feelings of shame that it almost seems to define you a... (more)
Overcoming Trauma and PTSD: A Workbook Integrating Skills from ACT, DBT, and CBT
Post-traumatic stress disorder affects every sufferer in a different way. A veteran who committed atrocities during war may not benefit from cognitive treatments in the same way a victim of sexual... (more)
Treating Co-Occurring Adolescent PTSD and Addiction: Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Adolescents with Trauma and Substance-Abuse Disorders
Trauma and addiction often present side by side. However, up until now, clinicians have lacked the tools needed to treat these two issues together. Based in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and... (more)
Working with Relational and Developmental Trauma in Children and Adolescents
Working with Relational and Developmental Trauma in Children and Adolescents focuses on the multi-layered complex and dynamic area of trauma, loss and disrupted attachment on babies, children,... (more)
Wounds of History: Repair and Resilience in the Trans-Generational Transmission of Trauma
Wounds of History takes a new view in psychoanalysis using a trans-generational and social/political/cultural model looking at trauma and its transmission. The view is radical in looking beyond... (more)
Overcoming the Stigma of Intimate Partner Abuse
Overcoming the Stigma of Intimate Partner Abuse addresses the impact of the shame surrounding intimate partner violence and the importance of actively challenging this stigma. Through examples of... (more)
Torture, Psychoanalysis and Human Rights
In recent years, there has been an increased interest in psychoanalytic views on wider social topics. In this book, the author examines how and why torture exists from a broadly psychoanalytic... (more)
Trauma and Countertrauma, Resilience and Counterresilience: Insights from Psychoanalysts and Trauma Experts
Treating traumatized patients takes its toll on the treating clinician, giving rise over time to what Richard B. Gartner terms countertrauma in the psychoanalyst or therapist. Trauma and... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Trauma and Community: History and Contemporary Reappraisals
Trauma is one of the hottest contemporary topics within psychoanalysis, whilst many psychoanalysts are increasingly interested in applying their skills outside the traditional setting of the... (more)
Trans-Generational Trauma and the Other: Dialogues Across History and Difference
Often, our trans-generational legacies are stories of 'us' and 'them' that never reach their terminus. We carry fixed narratives, and the ghosts of our perpetrators and of our victims. We long to be... (more)
Celebrating the Wounded Healer Psychotherapist: Pain, Post-Traumatic Growth and Self-Disclosure
Why would someone decide to become a psychotherapist? It is well-known within the field that psychoanalysts and psychotherapists are often drawn to their future professions as a result of early... (more)
Aggression and Violence: A Social Psychological Perspective
This book provides a broad and contemporary overview of aggression and violence by some of the most internationally renowned researchers in the field. It begins with an integrative theoretical... (more)
Working with Traumatic Memories to Heal Adults with Unresolved Childhood Trauma: Neuroscience, Attachment Theory and Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor Psychotherapy
What potential does psychotherapy have for mediating the impact of childhood developmental trauma on adult life? Combining knowledge from trauma-focused work, understandings of the developmental... (more)
The Simple Guide to Child Trauma: What it is and How to Help
What is trauma? How does it affect children? How can adults help? Providing straightforward answers to these complex questions, The Simple Guide to Child Trauma is the perfect starting point for any... (more)
Working with the Trauma of Rape and Sexual Violence: A Guide for Professionals
The trauma caused by rape and sexual assault can often be further compounded by unthinking or insensitive comments from people who may judge, disbelieve or disparage the victim. This authoritative... (more)
Working with Violence and Confrontation Using Solution-Focused Approaches: Creative Practice with Children, Young People and Adults
An authoritative, interdisciplinary book which outlines how solution focused practice is particularly effective in addressing violent behaviour in clients and service users, encompassing work with... (more)
Principles and Techniques of Trauma-Centered Psychotherapy
Principles and Techniques of Trauma-Centered Psychotherapy integrates cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, and humanistic methods of trauma treatment into a psychotherapeutic context. Rather than... (more)
Confronting Child and Adolescent Sexual Abuse
While Child Sexual Abuse has been around for ages, research on the effects and treatment are fairly recent and date back to the late 70s. To date, there are many books that deal with aspects of abuse... (more)