Trauma library catalogue
The following books can be found in our trauma library. If you would like to lend a copy of any of the books, please contact us.
Books
Adshead, Gwen & Horne, Eileen – The Devil You Know: Encounters in Forensic Psychiatry
Dr Gwen Adshead is one of Britain’s leading forensic psychiatrists. She treats serial killers, arsonists, stalkers, gang members and other individuals who are usually labelled ‘monsters’. Whatever their crime, she listens to their stories and helps them to better understand their terrible acts of violence. Here Adshead invites the reader to step with her into the room to meet twelve patients and discover how minds can change. These men and women are revealed in all their complexity and shared humanity. Their stories make a powerful case for rehabilitation over revenge, compassion over condemnation. The Devil You Know will challenge everything you thought you knew about human nature.
Ainscough, Carolyn & Toon, Katy – Breaking Free Workbook
Breaking Free, by Kay Toon and Carolyn Ainscough, draws on their nationally recognised and pioneering work as clinical psychologists giving a voice to the Survivors of child sexual abuse. It uses their courage and experiences to help other survivors face their past and take steps towards a better future.
Amans, Diane – Age and Dancing: Older people and community dance practice
This highly readable introduction to dance with older people combines key debates and issues in the field with practical guidance, as well as a resources section including numerous ‘toolkit materials’. Diane Amans, leading practitioner in Community Dance, provides the ideal beginners’ guide for students, practitioners and dance artists alike.
Appignanesi, Richard and Zarate, Oscar – Introducing Freud
A graphic guide which demystifies Freud’s discovery of psychoanalysis. Irreverent and witty but never trivial, the book tells the story of Freud’s life and ideas from his early upbringing in 19th century Vienna, his early medical career and his encounter with cocaine, to the gradual evolution of his theories on the unconscious, dreams and sexuality. An entertaining and informative introduction to the father of psychoanalysis.
Bass, Ellen & Davis, Laura – The Courage to Heal – A Guide for Survivors
Based on the experiences of hundreds of child abuse survivors, The Courage to Heal profiles victims who share the challenges and triumphs of their personal healing processes. Inspiring and comprehensive, it offers mental, emotional and physical support to all people who are in the process of rebuilding their lives. The Courage to Heal offers hope, encouragement and practical advice to every woman who was sexually abused as a child and answers some vital questions.
Bateman, A & Holmes, J – Introduction to Psychoanalysis
The need for a concise, comprehensive guide to the main principles and practice of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy has become pressing as the psychoanalytic movement has expanded and diversified. An introductory text suitable for a wide range of courses, this lively, widely referenced account presents the core features of contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice in an easily assimilated, but thought-provoking manner. Illustrated throughout with clinical examples, it provides an up-to-date source of reference for a wider range of mental health professionals as well as those training in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy or counselling.
Bentall, Richard P – Madness Explained, Psychosis and Human Nature
This book will explain what madness is, to show that it can be understood in psychological terms, and that by studying it we can learn important insights about the normal mind. The book will argue that traditional approaches to madness must be abandoned in favour of a new approach which is more consistent with that we now know about the human mind. Over the last century or so it has become so commonplace to regard madness simply as a medical condition that it has become difficult to think of it in any other way. Bentall argues instead that delusions, hallucinations and other unusual behaviours are best understood psychologically, and that such experiences for the most part represent exaggerations of mental foibles to which we are all prone.
Bentall, Richard P – Doctoring the Mind, Why psychiatric treatments fail
Whyis the Western world’s treatment of mental illness so flawed? Who really benefits from psychiatry? And why would a patient in Nigeria have a much greater chance of recovery than one in the UK?
In Doctoring the Mind, leading clinical psychologist Richard Bentall reveals the shocking truths behind the system of mental health care in the West. With a heavy dependence on pills and the profit they bring, psychiatry has been relying on myths and misunderstandings of madness for too long, and builds on methods which can often hinder rather than help the patient.
Bentall argues passionately for a new future of mental health, one that considers the patient as an individual and redefines our understanding and treatment of madness for the twenty-first century.
Bettelheim, Bruno – The Uses of Enchantment
Wicked stepmothers and beautiful princesses … magic forests and enchanted towers … little pigs and big bad wolves … Fairy tales have been an integral part of childhood for hundreds of years. But what do they really mean?
In this award-winning work of criticism, renowned psychoanalyst Dr Bruno Bettelheim presents a thought provoking and stimulating exploration of the best-known fairy stories. He reveals the true content of the stories and shows how children can use them to cope with their baffling emotions and anxieties.
Boon, Steele, Van Der Hart – Coping With Trauma-Related Dissociation
This book is a skills training manual for individuals with trauma-related dissociative disorders (Dissociative Identity Disorder and Dissociative Disorder, Not Otherwise Specified). There is no other training manual that exists for complex trauma survivors with dissociative disorders. This group is a significant subset of mental health consumers (up to 10% have DDNOS, and between 1-4% have DID). Although there are several skills manuals that address trauma, none address the specific needs of individuals with severe and chronic dissociation. The approach is eclectic and integrative, drawing from accepted theories and models of treatment which have been used successfully with chronically traumatised individuals. The book may be used by patients and their treating clinicians in the course of an individual therapy as well as in structured group settings (both outpatient, day treatment or inpatient).
Bradley, Jonathon – Understanding Your Ten-Year Old (The Tavistock Clinic Series)
This book considers how the developing confidence of the 10 year-old is undermined by feelings of smallness and an inability to cope. The 10-year old is in the upper grades of grade school and beginning to develop an interest in the important causes, in professional sports, in music and entertainment. Accompanying this growing competence are times of loneliness, of not wishing to grow up, and of feeling betrayed by friends.
Buseto, Penny – The Story of Anna P as told by herself
This sparse, disturbing novel reflects the past, present, and future of a woman, Anna P, who lives on an island off the coast of Italy but can no longer remember how she got there. She comes from South Africa but has almost no memories of the place or people there. The only person she has any relationship with is a sex worker whom she pays by the hour. She has abusive encounters with unknown men, and it is not clear whether she occasionally kills these men or not. It is only when she begins to connect emotionally with a young boy in her accidental care that she finds some value in herself, some place which she will not allow to be abused, and her life gradually changes. This meticulously crafted debut asks a number of difficult questions about the nature of memory: Who are we if we lose our memories? What does it mean to have no identity? And if we have no identity, no sense of ourselves, how can we make any ethical choices? The answers may not comfort the reader, but The Story of Anna P, as Told by Herself grounds such existential ponderings in a rich imaginative landscape that will linger with the reader long after the last page is read.
Cacciatore, Joanne – Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief
If you love someone who has died, this book is for you.
If you love someone who may die, this book is for you.
If you love, you will grieve–and this book is for you.
A timeless book, destined to become a classic.
Grief and love are two expressions of the same process–and nothing is more mysteriously central to becoming fully human. For any who love, grieving is all but inevitable. When a loved one dies, the pain of loss can feel unbearable–especially in the case of a traumatizing death that leaves us shouting NO! with every fibre of our body. Grief commands our attention and erupts unpredictably, inescapably. The process of grieving can feel wild and nonlinear–and often lasts for much longer than other people, the non-bereaved, tell us it should. And it is important.
Dr. Joanne Cacciatore, a Zen priest, bereavement educator, researcher, and leading counsellor in the field, accompanies us in the painful process of transformation through love, loss, and grief. This beautifully written companion for life’s most difficult time is heartrending and utterly healing–revealing, in an undeniably personal way, how grief can open our hearts to interconnection, compassion, and the very essence of our shared humanity. Through generous, insightful writing and moving stories of her encounters with grief over decades of supporting individuals, families, and communities–as well as her own experience with loss–Cacciatore opens a space for us to process, integrate, and deeply honour our own grief.
Not just for the bereaved, Bearing the Unbearable will be required reading for grief counsellors, therapists and social workers, clergy of all varieties, educators, academics, and medical professionals. Organized into 52 accessible and stand-alone chapters, this book is also perfect for being read aloud in support groups.
Courtois, Christine A – It’s Not You, It’s What Happened To You
With It’s Not You, It’s What Happened to You: Complex Trauma and Treatment, Dr. Christine Courtois has simplified her extensive and, until now, quite scholarly work geared toward understanding and developing the concept of “complex trauma,” and the assessment and treatment thereof. A universally acknowledged leader in this emerging psychotherapeutic field, Dr. Courtois provides here an abbreviated and easy-to-read explanation of what complex trauma is, how it develops, the ways in which it manifests, and how it can effectively be dealt with.
Davis, Laura – The Courage to Heal Workbook
In this ground breaking companion to The Courage to Heal, Laura Davis offers an inspiring, in-depth workbook that speaks to all women and men healing from the effects of child sexual abuse. The combination of checklists, writing and art projects, open-ended questions and activities expertly guides the survivor through the healing process.
DeVore, Lora – Darkness was my Candle: An Odyssey of Survival and Grace
Born into poverty and violence, Lora’s early life was one of extreme vulnerability. She was prostituted for the first time at the age of nine and suffered unspeakable treatment from those who should have protected her. Early trauma led to her institutionalization soon after she started college, an incarceration she would not have survived but for a courageous nurse who fought for her release. Fifty years later, with an advanced degree in clinical psychology, a long career as a successful mental health professional, a leading educator and sought-after public speaker, Lora revisited the grounds of the Illinois state mental hospital where she was once kept in inhumane, degrading, and life-threatening circumstances. This profound and compelling memoir traces her life as a survivor of child abuse, sex trafficking, illegal pharmacological drug research, and institutional abuse. Lora’s experiences illuminate and validate the power of love and the strength of the indomitable human spirit that lives within each one of us. This is her story.
Dreyer, Danny – Chi Running: A Revolutionary Approach to Effortless, Injury-Free Running
Even the most minor of injuries can sideline a runner from being active for an extended period of time; some are even determined to run through the pain and risk injuring themselves further. Danny Dreyer’s technique, ChiRunning, can help prevent these injuries and promote the ability to run faster, farther, and with less effort at any age.
ChiRunning employs the deep power reserves in the core muscles of the trunk, an approach that evolved out of such disciplines as yoga, Pilates, and t’ai chi. Dreyer’s training principles are broken down step-by-step to accommodate all levels of runners.
Eysenck, Hans & Michael – Mind Watching, Why we behave the way we do
In this work, father and son psychologists, Hans and Michael Eysenck, take the general reader on a tour of the human personality. It includes an experiment which tested people’s obedience to authority, as well as evidence that stress can kill and how personality determines our life.
Fisher, Janina – Transforming The living Legacy of Trauma
Traumatic experiences leave a “living legacy” of effects that often persist for years and decades after the events are over. Historically, it has always been assumed that re-telling the story of what happened would resolve these effects.
However, survivors report a different experience: Telling and re-telling the story of what happened to them often reactivates their trauma responses, overwhelming them rather than resolving the trauma. To transform traumatic experiences, survivors need to understand their symptoms and reactions as normal responses to abnormal events. They need ways to work with the symptoms that intrude on their daily activities, preventing a life beyond trauma.
Dr. Janina Fisher, international expert on trauma, has spent over 40 years working with survivors, helping them to navigate their journey. In Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma, she shows how the legacy of symptoms helped them survive and offers:
- Step-by-step strategies that can be used on their own or in collaboration with a therapist
- Simple diagrams that make sense of the confusing feelings and physical reactions survivors experience
- Worksheets to practice the skills that bring relief and ultimately rejuvenation
Foo, Stephanie – What My Bones Know
A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the little-understood science behind complex PTSD and how it has shaped her life.
In this deeply personal and thoroughly researched account, Foo interviews scientists and psychologists and tries a variety of innovative therapies. She returns to her hometown in California to investigate the effects of immigrant trauma on the community, and she uncovers family secrets in the country of her birth, Malaysia, to learn how trauma can be inherited through generations. Ultimately, she discovers that you don’t move on from trauma—but you can learn to move with it.
Frost, Gill – The Girls Within
The star of this book is an extraordinary, bright-spirited, and entertaining six-year-old girl, called Little Vivvi, who experienced shocking abuse from members of her family. Yet Little Vivvi lives within Vivian, a middle-aged woman who has struggled with DID for many years. The challenging process of psychotherapy is laid bare, as Little Vivvi wrestles with overwhelming memories of childhood abuse. Alongside talking therapy, energy treatment, which she calls Wooshing, is utilised to astonishing effect, becoming the enigmatic ingredient that finally enables Little Vivvi to find relief from the distress and fear that had dominated her existence.
As therapy seems to draw to a close, Izzy appears. A very sensitive, thoughtful and mature eight-year-old, Izzy too needs love, support and treatment to speak about her trauma. After overcoming her understandable distrust, Izzy enables an exceptional ending to the therapeutic journey, far beyond anything Vivian and her therapist, Gill, could have dreamed.
Little Vivvi and Izzy will make you want to laugh out loud as well as cry. Their story teaches so much about suffering, dissociation and survival. Their aim is to enlighten, inspire and offer hope to others through reading their incredible tales, which reveal the astonishing power of The Girls within.
Garland, Caroline (Ed.) – Understanding Trauma: A Psychoanalytical Approach
This book, from the Tavistock Clinic Series, is about what follows the breakdown in functioning, either short or longer-term, provoked by a traumatic event. The authors offer a psychoanalytical understanding of the meaning of the trauma for an individual, illuminating theory with detailed clinical illustration and case histories. A range of therapeutic procedures is described. Major disasters draw attention forcibly to their effects on the survivors. Less often recognised are the long-term after-effects of the huge number and variety of more private events, either accidental or deliberately inflicted, on an individual’s subsequent emotional and working life. This book is about what follows the breakdown in functioning, either short or longer-term, provoked by a traumatic event. What is distinctive about this book is that its authors offer a psychoanalytical understanding of the meaning of the trauma for an individual, illuminating theory with detailed clinical illustration and case histories.
Gerhardt, Sue – Why Love Matters
Why Love Matters explains why love is essential to brain development in the early years of life, particularly to the development of our social and emotional brain systems, and presents the startling discoveries that provide the answers to how our emotional lives work.
Sue Gerhardt considers how the earliest relationship shapes the baby’s nervous system, with lasting consequences, and how our adult life is influenced by infancy despite our inability to remember babyhood. She shows how the development of the brain can affect future emotional wellbeing, and goes on to look at specific early ‘pathways’ that can affect the way we respond to stress and lead to conditions such as anorexia, addiction, and anti-social behaviour.
Gerhardt, Sue – The Selfish Society
Ambitious and wide-ranging, The Selfish Society reveals the vital importance of understanding our early emotional lives, arguing that by focusing on the attention we give to our young children we can create a better society.
Open any newspaper and what do you find? Violence and crime, child abuse and neglect, expenses scandals, addiction, fraud and corruption, environmental melt-down
Is Britain indeed broken? How did modern society get to this point? Who is to blame? How can we change?
We have come to inhabit a culture of selfish individualism which has confused material well-being with happiness. As society became bigger and more competitive, working life was cut off from child-rearing and the new economics ignored people’s emotional needs. We have lived with this culture so long that it is hard to imagine it being any different. Yet we are now at a turning point where the need for change is becoming urgent. If we are to build a more reflective and collaborative society, Gerhardt argues, we need to support the caring qualities that are learnt in early life and integrate them into our political and economic thinking.
Inspiring and thought-provoking, The Selfish Society sets out a roadmap to a more positive and compassionate future.
Golding, Kim and Jones, Alexia – A Tiny Spark of Hope
This is the story of Alexia and her therapist Kim, and their three-year therapy journey to begin Alexia’s path to recovery. Written from both perspectives, it is a powerful and revealing account of a therapist-client relationship.
Together, the authors show the manifold challenges that adult survivors of childhood abuse have to overcome, and offer insight to all therapists on how relational interventions can pave a way to healing.
Grosz, Stephen – The Examined Life
Echoing Socrates’ statement that the unexamined life not worth living, psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz draws on his twenty-five years of work and more than 50,000 hours of conversations to form a collection of beautifully rendered tales that illuminate the human experience.
These are stories about everyday lives: from a woman who finds herself daydreaming as she returns home from a business trip to a young man loses his wallet, to the more extreme examples: the patient who points an unloaded gun at a police officer and the compulsive liar who convinces his wife he’s dying of cancer. The resulting journey will spark new ideas about who we are and why we do what we do.
Gustavus Jones, Sarah – Understanding Your One-Year Old (Tavistock Clinic Series)
How does the world look to a one-year-old? When your child doesn’t have words to explain things to you, how can you begin to understand how she feels? How do you support and understand your very young child as his independence increases and he starts to become a toddler, beginning to learn to dress himself, share toys and play with other children? Acknowledging the crucial role of relationships and parenting, Sarah Gustavus Jones offers guidance and reassurance in this sensitive exploration of the issues central to your child’s developing physical and emotional needs.
Haig, Matt – The Comfort Book
It is a strange paradox, that many of the clearest, most comforting life lessons are learned while we are at our lowest. But then we never think about food more than when we are hungry and we never think about life rafts more than when we are thrown overboard.
The Comfort Book is a collection of consolations learned in hard times and suggestions for making the bad days better. Drawing on maxims, memoir and the inspirational lives of others, these meditations celebrate the ever-changing wonder of living. This is for when we need the wisdom of a friend or a reminder we can always nurture inner strength and hope, even in our busy world.
A book of timeless comfort for modern minds.
Haines, Steve, Trauma Is Really Strange
When something traumatic happens to us, we dissociate and our bodies shut down their normal processes. This unique comic explains the strange nature of trauma and how it confuses the brain and affects the body. With wonderful artwork, cat and mouse metaphors, essential scientific facts, and a healthy dose of wit, the narrator reveals how trauma resolution involves changing the body’s physiology and describes techniques that can achieve this, including Trauma Releasing Exercises that allow the body to shake away tension, safely releasing deep muscular patterns of stress and trauma.
Herbert, Claudia & Wetmore Ann – Overcoming Traumatic Stress
The Overcoming Series offers step-by-step guides to self-improvement based on the methods of cognitive behavioural therapy. The series aims to help readers conquer a broad range of disabling conditions-from worry to body image problems to obsessive compulsive disorder and more. Cognitive behavioural therapy was developed by psychiatrist Aaron T. Beck and is now internationally favoured as a practical means of overcoming longstanding and disabling conditions, both psychological and physical. CBT is based on the idea that our thoughts cause our feelings and behaviours. Even when our situation does not change, if we change the self-defeating ways we think, we can make ourselves feel better. This positive, pragmatic approach is popular with therapists and patients alike.
Herman, Judith – Father-Daughter Incest
Through an intensive clinical study of forty incest victims and numerous interviews with professionals in mental health, child protection, and law enforcement, Judith Herman develops a composite picture of the incestuous family. In a new afterword, Herman offers a lucid and thorough overview of the knowledge that has developed about incest and other forms of sexual abuse since this book was first published.
Reviewing the extensive research literature that demonstrates the validity of incest survivors’ sometimes repressed and recovered memories, she convincingly challenges the rhetoric and methods of the backlash movement against incest survivors, and the concerted attempt to deny the events they find the courage to describe.
Herman, Judith – Trauma and Recovery
When Trauma and Recovery was first published in 1992, it was hailed as a ground-breaking work. In the intervening years, Herman’s volume has changed the way we think about and treat traumatic events and trauma victims. In a new afterword, Herman chronicles the incredible response the book has elicited and explains how the issues surrounding the topic have shifted within the clinical community and the culture at large. Trauma and Recovery brings a new level of understanding to a set of problems usually considered individually. Herman draws on her own cutting-edge research in domestic violence as well as on the vast literature of combat veterans and victims of political terror, to show the parallels between private terrors such as rape and public traumas such as terrorism. The book puts individual experience in a broader political frame, arguing that psychological trauma can be understood only in a social context. Meticulously documented and frequently using the victims’ own words as well as those from classic literary works and prison diaries, Trauma and Recovery is a powerful work that will continue to profoundly impact our thinking.
Hinton, John – Dying
The rational and irrational emotions associated with death are discussed frankly and openly by the author who is a psychiatrist with extensive experience of patients suffering from incurable illnesses. In his open yet sympathetic account of the feelings and experiences of those who are dying, and in his calm assessment of the known boundaries of acceptance and distress, his book takes from the contemplation of death much of its power to frighten and terrorise.
Jane Hobbs, Nicola – Thrive Through Yoga
Thrive Through Yoga unites ancient wisdom with modern psychology to create a revolutionary route to freedom from the anxieties and worries of 21st-century living. This life-changing 21-day journey maps out a clear path to healing and personal growth through daily yoga routines, heart-centred explorations and meditations. Find the inspiration, guidance and courage to let go of whatever is holding you back, transform struggle into strength, and grow as bold and brave and beautiful as you were born to be.
Holmes, Jeremy – The Brain has a Mind of its Own
Psychotherapy is a practice in search of a theory. Recent advances in relational neuroscience and attachment research now offer convincing avenues for understanding how the ‘talking cure’ helps clients recover. Drawing on Karl Friston’s Free Energy Principle and contemporary attachment theory this book shows how psychotherapy works. This pioneering text provides a deep theoretical explanation for how psychotherapy helps sufferers overcome trauma, redress relationship difficulties and ameliorate depression. Neuroscience validates the psychoanalytic principles of establishing a trusting therapeutic secure base; using ambiguity to bring pre-formed assumptions into view for revision; dream analysis, free association and playfulness in extending clients’ repertoire of narratives for meeting life’s vicissitudes; and re-starting the capacity to learn from experience. Holmes demonstrates how psychotherapy works at a neuroscientific level, making complex ideas vivid and comprehensible for a wide readership.
Irons, Chris & Beaumont, Elaine – The Compassionate Mind Workbook
There is good and increasing evidence that cultivating compassion for one’s self and others can have a profound impact on our physiological, psychological and social processes. In contrast, concerns with inferiority, shame and self-criticism can have very negative impacts on these processes and are associated with poorer physical and mental health.
The Compassionate Mind Workbook is for anyone who is interested in how compassion – in the form of ideas and practices derived from Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) and other approaches – may help us to engage with, understand and ultimately, try to alleviate suffering.
Laing, R.D. – The Divided Self
Dr Laing’s first purpose is to make madness and the process of going mad comprehensible. In this, with case histories of schizophrenic patients he succeeds brilliantly, but he does more; through a vision of sanity and madness as degrees of conjunction and disjunction between two persons where the one is sane by ‘common consent’ he offers a rich existential analysis of personal alienation.
Laing, R.D. & Esterson, A – Sanity, Madness and the Family
Madmen were once thought to be possessed by the devil; only very slowly has the clinical approach superseded that idea. Sanity Madness and the Family may well come to be seen as a classic of psychiatry because it invites an equally radical change in our view of madness.
Laplance, Jean – Essays on Otherness
Since the death of Jacques Lacan, Jean Laplanche is now considered to be one of the worlds foremost psychoanalytic thinkers. In spite of the influence of his work over the last thirty years, remarkably little has been available in English. Essays On Otherness presents for the first time in English many of Laplanche’s key essays and is the first book to provide an overview of his thinking. It offers an introduction to many of the key themes that characterise his work: seduction, persecution, revelation, masochism, transference and mourning. Such themes have been increasingly both in psychoanalytic thought and in continental philosophy, social and cultural theory, and literature making Essays On Otherness indispensable reading for all those concerned with the implications of psychoanalytic theory today.
Lemma, A – Introduction to the Practice of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
A clear and thorough introduction to techniques and practice issues, as well as basic theoretical frameworks, for beginners. Psychoanalysis is not so much skill-based, as dependent upon the development of the analytic attitude, guided by principles of technique that are used in the clinical situation.
Alessandra Lemma’s accessible guide has been based on her long experience of teaching trainee practitioners. It includes discussion of interventions and the possible dynamics associated with the different stages of therapy: assessment, beginnings, middle and end phases of therapy. It exposes the rationale underlying a range of interventions and discusses research evidence where relevant and available.
Lesoine, Robert, E. & Chöphel, Marilynne – Unfinished Conversation
Unfinished Conversations is a story of profound grief and the journey to healing that followed. Based on a journal Robert Lesoine kept during the two years following the suicide of his best friend, Unfinished Conversations will help readers through the process of reflecting on and affirming the raw immediacy of survivors’ emotions. Each short chapter focuses on a different aspect of the author’s experience as he transforms his anger and guilt to understanding and forgiveness.
Licensed psychotherapist Marilynne Chöphel brings her professional background to Robert Lesoine’s deeply personal story to create an accessible path to self-directed healing based on mindful awareness and sound clinical practices. Readers work through their own grieving and healing process with end-of-chapter exercises and activities. An appendix and website, unfinishedconversation.com, provide additional resources to survivors.
The tools and techniques in Unfinished Conversations will help readers release past trauma, honor their relationship with their lost loved one, and find greater perspective, meaning, and well-being in their lives.
Lukas, Christopher & Selden, Henry M. – Silent Grief
Silent Grief is a book for and about “suicide survivors” – those who have been left behind by the suicide of a friend or loved one. Author Christopher Lukas is a suicide survivor himself – several members of his family have taken their own lives – and the book draws on his own experiences, as well as those of numerous other suicide survivors. These personal testimonies are combined with the professional expertise of Henry M. Seiden, a psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist. The authors present information on common experiences of bereavement, grief reactions and various ways of coping. Their message is that it is important to share one’s experience of “survival” with others and they encourage survivors to overcome the perceived stigma or shame associated with suicide and to seek support from self-help groups, psychotherapy, family therapy, Internet support forums or simply a friend or family member who will listen.
Malcolm, Janet – In the Freud Archives
Who will inherit the secrets of Sigmund Freud? Who will protect his reputation? Who may destroy it? Janet Malcolm’s investigation into the personalities who clash over Freud’s legacy has become a celebrated story of seduction and betrayal, love and hatred, fantasy and reality. It is both a comedy and a tragedy. Malcolm’s cast of characters includes K. R. Eissler, a venerable psychoanalyst and keeper of the Freud flame; Jeffrey Mason, a flamboyant Sanskrit scholar and virulent anti-Freudian; and Peter Swales, a former assistant to the Rolling Stones and indefatigable researcher. Each of them thinks they know the truth about Freud, and each needs the help of the other. Malcolm endeavours to untangle the causes of their rivalry and soured friendships, while the flaws and mysteries of Freud’s early work tower in the background.
Malcolm, Janet – Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession
The process known as psychoanalysis is sometimes revered, sometimes derided, and most often misunderstood. What good does it do? Can it help anyone? What risks does it pose to both patient and analyst? None of these questions can be easily answered, but in Janet Malcolm’s narrative, in which all her skills as a reporter and interviewer come into play, their complexity is limpidly revealed.
Maltz, Wendy – The Sexual Healing Journey
Compassionate and enduring, renowned author, psychotherapist, and certified sex therapist Wendy Maltz presents a comprehensive program for healing that sensitively takes readers step-by-step through the recovery process, integrating expert advice with ground-breaking exercises, proven techniques, and first-person accounts of women and men at every stage of sexual healing. This compassionate resource can help you to:
- Identify the sexual effects of sexual abuse
- Eliminate negative sexual behaviour and resolve specific problems
- Gain control over upsetting automatic reactions to touch and sex
- Develop a healthy sexual self-concept
Moberly, Elizabeth R – The Psychology of Self and Other
Elizabeth Moberly undertakes a detailed reassessment of basic Freudian concepts and develops Bowlby’s work on attachment and separation and Kohut’s data on selfobject transferences. She then develops a dynamic theory of developmental arrest and links it to the potential for reparation through the therapeutic process.
Orford, Ellen – Understanding your 11 Year-Old (Tavistock Clinic Series)
What does it feel like to be eleven years old? Eleven-year-olds are on the brink of major changes in their lives. School work begins to assume a greater importance and adolescence will soon be on them or may even, for some, have arrived. How do II-year-olds prepare to cope with these important developments, and how can parents best help their children, who soon will be children no longer, to weather these changes? This book deals with some of the issues that need to be addressed during the year before the 12 birthday. Written to appeal to parents, grandparents and family friends, this book outlines the exuberant progress made between the eleventh and twelfth birthdays.
Pick, Daniel – Psychoanalysis: A Very Short Introduction
Since its inception, psychoanalysis has been hailed as a revolutionary theory of how the mind works, whilst some of its ideas such as the Oedipus complex have become part of everyday conversation. In Psychoanalysis: A Very Short Introduction, Daniel Pick offers a lucid, lively, and wide-ranging survey of psychoanalysis. This book offers the reader a flavour of what it might be like to enter treatment, and suggests the possible surprises that can await both analyst and patient, as well as the potential benefits.
Yet whilst Freud’s writings have shaped the way many of us understand dreams, desires, and destructiveness, as well as anxieties, blunders, and guilt, numerous critics have warned of the dangerous methods and time-bound assumptions of psychoanalysis, doubted the efficacy of its drawn-out methods, and dismissed its core claims as pseudo-science. Looking at modern ideas of the self, exploring the nature of unconscious aspects of relationships, and considering how psychoanalysis has evolved, Pick ponders the particular challenges now facing the analytic profession, and shows why psychoanalysis remains an important resource for investigating the mind, its creative functioning and many afflictions.
Ringrose, Jo L. – Understanding and Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder (or Multiple Personality Disorder)
This book provides all of the information a practitioner needs in order to begin work with clients with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). Drawing on experiences from her own practice and extensive research conducted with the help of internationally acclaimed experts in the field, the author describes the development of DID and the structure of the personality of these clients. The reader is guided through the assessment process, the main phases and components of treatment, and the issues and contentions that may arise in this work. Throughout the text there are case examples, practical exercises, techniques, and strategies that can be used in therapy sessions. The resources section includes screening and assessment instruments, as well as information on techniques for managing anxiety and self harm, both of which can be major problems when working with clients with DID.
Ripley, Amanda – The Unthinkable
In extreme circumstances the mind does peculiar things, and in The Unthinkable award-winning journalist Amanda Ripley has interviewed 9/11 and plane crash survivors, risk analysts and psychologists to get to the bottom of how people behave when disaster strikes. Vividly describing some of the most harrowing catastrophes and breath-taking escapes, Amanda draws out the three stages of disaster response. Denial, Deliberation and Decision explaining why many of us slow down just when we should be running for our lives and identifying the habits that may help disaster victims to save themselves.
Ronen, Tammie and Ayelet – In and Out of Anorexia, The Story of the Client, the Therapist and the Process of Recovery
Ayelet spent six years of her adolescence in and out of hospital, having been diagnosed as suffering from a severe anorexia disorder. She is now a special needs teacher. In the first part of this book Ayelet describes her personal experiences of the illness, the repeated hospitalisations and her ultimate recovery, illustrated with examples of her drawing and writing from when she was ill.
Tammie Ronen, her therapist, outlines the step-by-step progress of the therapy from the professional angle, describing in detail the decision-making and treatment considerations specific to Ayelet’s life and context. She also includes comprehensive overviews of contemporary research into anorexia and of cognitive constructivist methods.
This interweaving of theory, practice and personal experience offers the reader unique insight into the reality of the illness and demonstrates the effectiveness of integrative and creative methods, and the central importance of a good relationship between the client and the therapist. The book is a rich source of inspiration and guidance for therapists and other professionals, as well as for people with eating disorders and their families.
Rothschild – 8 Keys to Trauma Recovery
Trauma recovery is tricky; however, there are several key principles that can help make the process safe and effective. This book gives self-help listeners, therapy clients, and therapists alike the skills to understand and implement eight keys to successful trauma healing: mindful identification of what is helpful, recognizing survival, having the option to not remember, creating a supportive inner dialogue, forgiving not being able to stop the trauma, understanding and sharing shame, finding your own recovery pace; mobilizing your body, and helping others.
Sayers, Janet – Freudian Tales
We all have powerful images of ‘manhood’, visions of dreams and nightmares. Why do we cling to them so strongly? What harm do they do us? How can we put it right? Through a series of fifteen case studies, psychotherapist Jane Sayers provides a pathbreaking account of the damage done to both sexes by our notions about men and masculinity.
Schwartz, Arielle – The Complex PTSD Workbook
Those affected by complex post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) commonly feel as though there is something fundamentally wrong with them – that somewhere inside there is a part of them that needs to be fixed. Though untrue, such beliefs can feel extremely real and frightening. Difficult as it may be, facing one’s PTSD from unresolved childhood trauma is a brave, courageous act, and with the right guidance, healing from PTSD is possible.
Clinical psychologist Dr. Arielle Schwartz has spent years helping those with complex PTSD – also referred to as C-PTSD – find their way to wholeness. She also knows the territory of the healing first-hand, having walked it herself.
This book provides a map to the complicated, and often overwhelming, terrain of C-PTSD with Dr. Schwartz’s knowledgeable guidance helping you find your way.
Sinason, Valerie – The Truth about Trauma and Dissociation, Everything You Didn’t Want to Know and Were afraid to Ask
This book takes us through the key concepts of trauma and dissociation, showing how to work successfully with people who have experienced all degrees of trauma, from working with complex, childhood attachment ruptures to traumatic incidents in later life.
Sinason, Valerie – Trauma and Memory: The Science and the Silent
Trauma and Memory will assist mental health experts and professionals, as well as the interested public, in understanding the scientific issues around trauma memory, and how this differs from other areas of memory.
This book provides accounts of the damage caused to psychology and survivors internationally by false memory groups and ideas. It is unequivocally passionate about the truth of trauma memory and exposing the damaging disinformation that can seep into the field. Contributors to this book include leading professionals from the field of criminology, law, psychology and psychotherapy in the UK and USA, along with survivor-professionals who understand only too well the damage such disinformation can cause.
This book is a valuable resource for mental health professionals of all disciplines including those involved with relevant law and public health policy. It will also help survivors and survivor-professionals in gaining insight into the forces resisting disclosure.
Smail, David – The Nature of Un-happiness
David Smail’s books work to a central theme – that psychological distress arises not from ‘illness’ or personal failure but as a response to damaging influences from the outside world. He believes that such distress can be alleviated by care and understanding from our fellows. He also examines how the dominant values of society and politics can have devastating effects on the individual, and consequently that counsellors and therapists can have limited success in treating such problems – that in fact it is the circumstances and not the individual, that need to be altered.
Spring, Carolyn – Recovery Is My Best Revenge
What is it like to live with dissociative identity disorder? How does the brain respond to chronic, extreme trauma? Is recovery possible from such suffering? In this combined first and second volumes of her collected essays, Carolyn Spring writes candidly from a number of perspectives about her experiences of living with trauma-related dissociation, and her journey of recovery over ten years. Available in paperback for the first time, this volume covers topics such as shame, denial, child sexual abuse, the complex meanings of ‘madness’ and the multi-layered subjective experience of a dissociative mind. It is a series of standalone chapters or essays which build on one another to provide not only a unique insight into trauma, attachment and dissociation, but also the long and arduous – but ultimately fulfilling – recovery journey.
Stuart-Smith, Sue – The Well Gardened Mind: Rediscovering Nature in the Modern World
How can gardening relieve stress and help us look after our mental health? What lies behind the restorative power of the natural world?
In a powerful combination of contemporary neuroscience, psychoanalysis and brilliant storytelling, The Well Gardened Mind investigates the magic that many gardeners have known for years – working with nature can radically transform our health, wellbeing and confidence.
With illuminating stories of how people struggling with stress, depression, trauma and addiction can change their lives, this inspiring and wise book of science, insight and anecdote – now translated into fifteen languages – shows how our understanding of nature and its restorative powers is only just beginning to flower.
Stubley, Joanne and Young, Linda (ed) – Complex Trauma, The Tavistock Model
The new diagnosis of Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder presents diagnostic and treatment challenges that need to be grappled with, since, in a troubled world, it is increasingly important to understand the impact and aftermath of traumatic experiences and, crucially, how to work with those affected by them.
In Complex Trauma, Joanne Stubley and Linda Young have assembled a fascinating range of approaches in order to explore the questions of understanding and intervention. They detail the relevance of an applied psychoanalytic approach, both in the Tavistock Trauma Service and, more broadly, in illuminating understanding of traumatised individuals. The book includes chapters related to the impact of trauma on the body, as well as on the mind, incorporating neurobiological and attachment theory to develop ideas on the impact and aftermath of complex trauma. A number of specialist areas of trauma work are covered within this volume, including work with adolescents, with refugees and asylum seekers, with military veterans, and with survivors of child sexual abuse.
The editors bring together chapters that will be of interest to those working with traumatized individuals in a variety of settings and using different modalities. The central importance of relationships, as understood within the psychoanalytic model, is depicted throughout as being at the heart of understanding and working with traumatic experience.
Taylor, David (ed) – Talking Cure
This book is written to accompany a BBC 2 TV series about the Tavistock Clinic. The programmes of the series are about therapy — talking — as a way of dealing with difficulties that life can entail.
Trowell, Judith – Understanding Your 3 Year-Old (The Tavistock Clinic Series)
Your 3 year-old is now an established person in their own right, beginning to make friends outside of the family, and eager to explore with boundless energy. But what are the anxieties that go with this energy. What are the anxieties that go with this exploration? Understanding Your Three-year old deals with the growth of your child’s mind and personality between the all-important third and fourth birthdays.
Van der Kolk, Bessel – The Body Keeps The Score
The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here one of the world’s experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for treatment, moving away from standard talking and drug therapies and towards an alternative approach that heals mind, brain and body.
Van Derbur, Marilyn – Miss America By Day – Lessons Learned From Ultimate Betrayals and Unconditional Love
In this long-awaited book, Van Derbur, a former Miss America, tells the story of how she was sexually violated by her father from age 5 to age 18. She was 53 years old before she was able to speak the words in public: “I am an incest survivor.” She opened the door for tens of thousands of sexual abuse survivors to speak the words, many for the first time, within their own families and communities.
Van Derbur describes in detail what specific “work” she did on her successful journey from victim to survivor. Using her story as the scaffolding, she shares knowledge and insights she has gained after talking personally with adult survivors in 225 cities in which she has spoken. With her extensive research on the long-term impact of trauma and her belief that prevention is the best weapon for keeping our children safe, Van Derbur urges parents to talk to children, as young as five. Suggesting specific words, she helps set the stage for conversations that can evolve into positive continuous dialogues.
Waddell, Margot – Inside lives: Psychoanalysis and the Growth of the Personality
This second edition of the remarkable Inside Lives (expanded with a chapter on the last years of the life cycle) provides a perspective on the relationship between psychoanalytic theory and the nature of human development. Following the major developmental phases from infancy to old age, the author lucidly explores the vital aspects of experience which promote mental and emotional growth and those which impede it. In bringing together a wide range of clinical, non-clinical and literary examples, it offers a detailed and accessible introduction to contemporary psychoanalytic thought and provides a personal and vivid approach to the elusive question of how the personality develops.
Wainwright, Gordon – Teach Yourself Body Language
We all use body language. Over 90% of all face-to-face communication is non-verbal, and the silent messages of body language often reveal more than the spoken word in conveying true feelings. These messages are particularly significant in influencing first impressions and the self-image we project to others.
Teach Yourself Body Language gives you the knowledge and understanding to be able to use and interpret body language more effectively. It includes practical exercises that will enhance your understanding of non-verbal communication. It also explores the use of body language in personal and professional situations.
All aspects of body language are covered including features of the workplace and features exhibited in an international context.
Walker, Matthew – Why We Sleep
Sleep is one of the most important aspects of our life, health and longevity and yet it is increasingly neglected in twenty-first-century society, with devastating consequences: every major disease in the developed world – Alzheimer’s, cancer, obesity, diabetes – has very strong causal links to deficient sleep.
In this book, the first of its kind written by a scientific expert, Professor Matthew Walker explores twenty years of cutting-edge research to solve the mystery of why sleep matters. Looking at creatures from across the animal kingdom as well as major human studies, Why We Sleep delves into everything from what really happens during REM sleep to how caffeine and alcohol affect sleep and why our sleep patterns change across a lifetime, transforming our appreciation of the extraordinary phenomenon that safeguards our existence.
Walker, Pete – Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving
I have Complex PTSD [Cptsd] and wrote this book from the perspective of someone who has experienced a great reduction of symptoms over the years. I also wrote it from the viewpoint of someone who has discovered many silver linings in the long, windy, bumpy road of recovering from Cptsd. I felt encouraged to write this book because of thousands of e-mail responses to the articles on my website that repeatedly expressed gratitude for the helpfulness of my work. An often echoed comment sounded like this: At last someone gets it. I can see now that I am not bad, defective or crazy…or alone! The causes of Cptsd range from severe neglect to monstrous abuse. Many survivors grow up in houses that are not homes – in families that are as loveless as orphanages and sometimes as dangerous. If you felt unwanted, unliked, rejected, hated and/or despised for a lengthy portion of your childhood, trauma may be deeply engrained in your mind, soul and body. This book is a practical, user-friendly self-help guide to recovering from the lingering effects of childhood trauma, and to achieving a rich and fulfilling life.
Weingarten, Kaethe – Common Shock
Identifies the effects and long-term consequences of trauma on the human psyche, explaining how responses to violence can be passed on to subsequent generations while revealing how a greater awareness of the effects of violence can promote healing.
Williams, Paul – Psychosis
In this volume a number of British psychoanalysts introduce us to psychoanalytic definitions of intra-psychic and subjective meaning in patients suffering psychotic conditions. Irrespective of psychotic illness, the context or treatment, each paper illustrates how the clinician establishes meaning from complex and often overwhelmingly confusing events.
Winfrey, Oprah and Perry, Bruce D. – What Happened to You?
Oprah Winfrey and renowned brain development and trauma expert, Dr Bruce Perry, discuss the impact of trauma and adverse experiences and how healing must begin with a shift to asking ‘What happened to you?’ rather than ‘What’s wrong with you?’.
Wollheim, Richard – Freud
This unusual biography is at once the life of a mind at work, and the story of a long and intricate process of recovery. It takes the form of an analysis, where the author is so much in tune with his subject that the personality and feelings of Sigmund Freud and his contemporaries clearly emerge. Readers will also sense the effect of the frightening enlargement of the known area of human unhappiness that Freud’s work revealed.
Gardening books
Ferguson, Jenny – A Year in My Garden
Nestled in the green and rolling hills of the Southern Highlands of New South Wales is Whitley, a gardener’s paradise. Surrounded by beautifully manicured hedges, this property boasts majestic oak trees, roses and maples, pretty cottage flower beds, romantic Italian hillside plantings, Australian native bush and secret vegetable patches. The beautifully laid out gardens are refuge to peacocks, parrots and possums while picturesque statues and fountains provide glimpses of a gothic past. Yet Whitley is also home, as well as sanctuary and inspiration, for gardener Jenny Ferguson. In A Year in My Garden, Jenny welcomes us into her private world and shares the glory of the passing seasons at Whitley. Through peaceful times of everyday pleasures and life’s little ups and downs, Jenny’s garden is a constant and uplifting backdrop. Lavishly illustrated and featuring seasonal recipes, A Year in My Garden is the perfect escape for busy lives – sit back and enjoy a quiet moment in this delightful garden.
Kingsbury, Noel – Plants to Transform Your Garden
A guide to transforming a garden with unusual planting schemes and all sorts of colour combinations. Using specimen plants or architectural-looking plants which act as focal points, the garden can be given a totally new look. The book also shows how to solve problems such as dry, wet or cold areas.
Spence, Ian – Gardening Through the Year
Successful gardening depends on good timing-knowing what to do when. With this revised, easy-to-use gardener’s companion, you can plan the year’s horticultural tasks and get ahead in the garden whatever the season. Gardening Through the Year is clearly laid out and completely practical in approach. For each month there are specific tasks for every part of the garden from trees to lawns, at-a-glance checklists, expert plant advice, and invaluable “Get Ahead” and “Last Chance” features. With more than 1,000 full-colour photographs, this is the garden reference book that not only tells you what to do when, but also shows you how to do it.
Jigsaws
- Dog Park in Four Seasons (1000 pieces)
- Paris Street (1000 pieces)
- Canine Cuties (1000 pieces)
- General Store (1000 pieces)
- Safari Dream (1000 pieces)
- Fantasy Bookshop (1000 pieces)
- Frida Kahlo (1000 pieces)