A list of
books of relevance to trauma and
therapy
This list of recommended books is a 'work in progress' and includes many I have found useful as well as some widely recommended by others. It has been selected to only include books which do not use stigmatising language.
GENERAL TRAUMA RESEARCH |
Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self - Attachment and The Neurobiology of Emotional Development by Allan N. Schore (1994 Lawrence Erlbaum ass. Publishers) ISBN 0-8058-3459-1
"In this extensively researched (over 2,300 references) and cogently argued text, Allan N. Schore provides a major contribution to the study of the relationship between the neurological processes and structures of the brain and the socioaffective and object representational phenomena that we generally associate with the mind. "
Assessing Psychological Trauma and PTSD by Wilson, J. P. & Keane, T. M. (1997 Guilford. Press)
Catecholamine function in posttraumatic stress disorder: Emerging Concepts. MM Murburg (Ed.). (1994 American Psychiatric Press)
Note: Includes chapter by Bruce Perry: Neurobiological sequelae of childhood trauma: Posttraumatic stress disorder in children.
Trauma and Cognitive Science: A Meeting of Minds, Science, and Human Experience by Jennifer Freyd and Anne DePrince. Based on a 1998 conference and covers neurology, psychology, trauma, and memory. More information on the book and ordering information, can be found at: http://dynamic.uoregon.edu/~jjf/traumacogsci.html
Molecules of Emotion by Candace B. Pert, Ph.D. (1997 Scribner Press) ISBN 0-684-83187-2
Candace B. Pert, Ph.D's easy to read and enthralling book "Molecules of Emotion" is gradually achieving wide recognition for it's first-hand account of her groundbreaking research within the science of mind/body connections, or psychoneuroimmunology. It's personal narrative account makes her discoveries readily understandable to all interested in the effects of emotional trauma on physical health. She is "a neuroscientist whose extraordinary career began with her 1972 discovery of the opiate receptor", - the key to understanding "how emotions and health are linked at the molecular level" (Forward) Previously it was believed that the only receptor sites for neuropeptides, (chemical messengers associated with emotion & thought) were located in the brain and nerve tissue and that information was only passed linearly in the nervous system from nerve to nerve, as in electrical wiring. Due to the research by Dr. Candace Pert and others, we now know that these neuropeptide receptor sites are also found throughout the body in the endocrine and immune system cells, and that there is a direct biochemically-based interconnection between all emotion and physical health at the molecular level.
Psychological Trauma by Bessel Van der Kolk (1987 American Psychiatric Press )
(Dr. van der Kolk, is a psychiatrist on the faculty at Harvard Medical School and co-principal investigator for the American Psychiatric Association on PTSD, and is recognized as one of the foremost experts on the effects of trauma.)
Psychotraumatology: Key papers and core concepts in post-traumatic stress GS Everly & JS Lating (Eds.) (1995 New York: Plenum Press)
Includes a chapter by Southwick, SM, Krystal, JH, Johnson, DR, & Charney, D : Neurobiology of PTSD.
Sexual abuse recalled: Treating trauma in the era of the recovered memory debate JL Alpert (Ed.) (1995 Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson.Press)
Includes a chapter by van der Kolk, BA The body, memory, and the psychobiology of trauma.
The Developing Mind:Toward a Neurobiology of Interpersonal Experience, by Dr. Daniel J. Siegel,
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1572304537/thehealingcenter"
The Psychobiology of Attachment and Separation. Reite, M., & Field, T. (Eds.). (1985 Orlando, FL: Academic Press)
Torture and its consequences M. Basogh (Ed.) (1992 New York: Cambridge University Press)
Includes a chapter by Saporta, JA, & van der Kolk, BA: Psychobiological consequences of severe trauma.
Trauma Research Methodology Carlson, E. B. (Ed.) (1997 Sidran Press)
Traumatic Stress: Human Adaptations to Overwhelming Experience by Bessel Van der Kolk, B.A., et al. (1996. New York: Guilford Press).
Traumatic Stress: The effects of overwhelming experience on mind, body, and society. Bessel A. van der Kolk, Alexander C. McFarlane, Lars Weisaeth (Eds.) (1996, New York: Guilford Press)
SPECIFIC
TRAUMA THERAPIES:
Embracing Our Selves - Voice Dialogue Manual by Hal Stone, Ph.D & Sidra Winkelman, Ph.D.(1993 Devorss & Co.) ISBN: 0-87516-553-2
"The course of our lives is determined, to a considerable extent, by an array of "selves" that lives within each of us. These selves call out to us constantly - in our dreams and fantasies, in our moods and maladies, and in a multitude of unpredictable and inexplicable reactions to the world around us. The more sharply we become attuned to these inner voices, the more real choice we are able to exercise in the pursuit of out individual destinies."
EMDR in the Treatment of Adults Abused as Children by Laurel Parnell (Norton Professional Books, New York, 1999).
Expands upon the use of EMDR in the treatment of the complex trauma of adult survivors of childhood abuse.
In Our Own Hands: A Book of Self-Help Therapy by Sheila Ernst & Lucy Goodison (1985 Nene Litho, London) ISBN 0-7043-3841-6
An excellent and detailed contribution from feminist psychotherapy which aims to empower those women who wish to form their own self-help therapeutic groups.
Naming The Shadows - A New Approach to Individual and Group Psychotherapy for Adult Survivors of Childhood Incest by Susan, Phd Roth, Ronald Bateson
Naming the Shadows offers practitioners and students-in-training an in-depth exploration of a trauma-focused approach to individual and group psychotherapy that respects scientific rules of evidence and at the same time attempts to honour the complexity and subjectivity of an individual survivor's experience. It draws upon the authors' own innovative research, the widespread experience of colleagues, and on vivid dialogue with survivors.
Narrative Therapy: The social construction of preferred realities by Freedman and Combs
Resolving Sexual Abuse: Solution Focused Therapy and Ericksonian Hypnosis for Adult Survivors by Yvonne M. Dolan (1991 W.W. Norton & Company) ISBN 0-393-70112-3
"Good therapy goes beyond any 'technique' and is a personalised, compassionate, and very human response to the client." (Yvonne Dolan)
"Dolan's warm, direct and respectful manner invites therapists to join her in developing strategies that allow clients to experience greater comfort and mastery in their own creative and unique ways." (Nancy Napier}
The Body Remembers - The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment by Babette Rothschild, MSW, LCSW (October 2000, W.W. Norton)
Babette Rothschild's newest book is written to the psychotherapist working with trauma, but should also appeal to clients interested in understanding their body's response to trauma. Strategies for "putting the brakes" on over-accelerated trauma processes are also included alongside numerous illustrative cases.
The Dissociative Child: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Management (2nd Edition) Edited by Joyanna L. Silberg, Ph.D. Foreword by Richard P. Kluft, M.D.
"This edited volume contains some of the best thinking in this emerging field...With its firm clinical base and its clear and careful descriptions, this presents a whole new way to look at troubled children with a variety of diagnoses.. (Joseph D. Noshpitz, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at George Washington University and past president of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ) This practical handbook provides useful information to assist the dedicated clinicians, parents, foster parents, and case workers who work with severely traumatized children on a day-to-day basis.
The Family Inside : Working With the Multiple by Doris Bryant, Judy Kessler, Lynda Shirar, Lunda Shirar (1992 W.W. Norton & Company) ISBN: 0393701425
Building on the work of Virginia Satir, the authors unite their own expertese as therapists with the expertese of the client, using the concept of the 'family within' to help a person with multiple personalitites find healing from horrific childhood abuse. Highly recommended and available through Amazon.com.
The Mosaic Mind -Empowering the Tomented Selves of Child Abuse Survivors by Regina A. Goulding and Richard C. Schwartz. (1995 W.W. Norton & Company) ISBN 0-393-70178-6
Written primarily for therapists and also widely recommended by survivors, this book does an excellent job of explaining the experience of multiplicity within a continuum of dissociation as a normal adaptation to the childhood experience of abnormal traumatic stress. It's focus is the effect of child abuse on the development of personality, and the implications for treatment issues. It also mentions times when the therapist's own selves (subpersonalities) could interfer in the therapeutic process.
Transforming Trauma: EMDR - Laurel Parnell (Norton Professional Books, New York, 1997).
An introduction to EMDR through the eyes of a practicing EMDR clinician. This book covers the personal experience of the clinician, her reasons for using EMDR and short narrative descriptions from a wide selection of clients.
Traumatic Incident Reduction by Gerald French and Chrys Harris
Read a forward by Peter Scheffler HERE
THE
THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP:
Between Therapist and Client: The New Relationship by Michael Kahn (1977) ISBN 0-7167-3073-1
A concise and reader-friendly book about the therapeutic relationship, with particular emphasis on transference, counter-transference, and the importance of therapist non-defensiveness. Highly recommended *
Beyond Therapy, Beyond Science: A new model for healing the whole person by Anne Wilson Schaef (1992 Harper Collins) ISBN 0-06-250833-4
I find Schaef's controversial book very interesting although I relate better to her general philosophy of therapy than to her formulation of a model which she sees as consistent with her views. The experiences of her early career and her growing awareness of the organisational power dynamics within which she was trying to be provide advocacy for her clients was hauntingly close to the story of my own early career ... I also identify strongly with her frustrations and disillusionment with so much of mainstream psychotherapy, and despite my disagreement with much of the second half of her book, nevertheless consider this book a very worthwhile read.
(I can also recommend her little book "Native Wisdom for White Minds")
Both Sides of the Door by Clive Williams and Kristine Sodersten (1981 University of Queensland press) ISBN 0-7022-15775
Dr. Clive Williams was the director of the counselling service at the University of Sydney, and was consulted by Kristine Sodersten as a psychotherapy client. Together they compiled this rare account of the close working relationship developed between a therapist and client.
History of Transference by Aldo Caretendo and Kant's Dove
If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him! the Pilgrimage of Psychotherapy Patients by Sheldon B. Kopp / Published 1972
In Session by Deborah Lott
Provides clients with clear explanations of common inner dynamics of the therapy process and illustrates the relationship between therapist & client with examples of actual therapy situations. Throughout her wiritng, the author shows her clear and undogmatic premise that clients should be empowered to take charge of their healing, while the therapist maintains full responsibility for the health of the therapeutic relationship, thereby providing the safe context essential for true healing..
Shame: The Power of Caring by Gershen Kaufman, Ph.D.
Addresses the concept and experience of shame within the therapeutic relationship.
Trauma and Recovery by Judith Lewis Herman (1992 Basic Books) ISBN 0 04 440886 2
This excellent book has now become a classic, and is hard to classify as it covers many areas of interest to all trauma therapists and survivors. I can particularly recommend the chapters she devotes to the therapeutic relationship.
SOME
THERAPIST'S ABUSE THEIR CLIENTS:
Against Therapy by Jeffrey Mason (1990 Fontana books-London) ISBN 0-00-637387-9
Excellent expose' of the darker side of the history of psychotherapy. A "must read" for all who value full awareness!
Sexual Abuse by Health Professionals; A personal search for meaning and healing by P. Susan Penfold (1998 University of Toronto Press) ISBN# 0802081061
The author is a psychiatrist, and the survivor of sexual and emotional abuse by her first psychotherapist, also a psychiatrist. Penfold employs two voices in the writing of her book: the first, which starts each chapter, is that of the victim of abuse telling her own story; the second is that of the survivor and professional on her journey towards understanding the meaning of the abuse and how to heal from it. This voyage of discovery includes having a second, very different, experience of therapy; ...
"A remarkable book which combines a courageous personal narrative with a scholarly and informative text. It will appeal to a wide range of readers." Carolyn Quadrio, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Australia.
Sexual Involvement with Therapists: Patient Assessment, Subsequent Therapy, Forensics by Kenneth S. Pope, Ph.D., ABPP Published by the AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
"The best book to help therapists working with patients who have been sexually abused by a previous therapist. This impressive contribution is must reading for all therapists and an essential text for training programs." -- Lenore Walker, Ed.D., ABPP; author, The Battered Woman Syndrome
$19.95 for APA Members; $24.95 for non-members By phone within the US: 1-800-374-2721; By phone outside the US: 1-202-336-5500 Also available at Amazon.com:
[NOTE: The author waived all royalties and other income from this book]
DISSOCIATED
MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD ABUSE:
A Primer on the Complexities of Traumatic Memory of Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Psychobiological Approach By Fay Honey Knopp and Anna Rose Benson
"I found this book, especially the neuroscience sections, to be fascinating. It is illuminating, well written and as comprehensive a review of the subject as I have seen. All those doing child protection work should read it!" (Richard D. Krugman, M.D., Dean of the University of Colorado School of Medicine
Banished Knowledge by Alice Miller (1991 Virago Press) ISBN 1-85381-154-8
Alice Miller has achieved worldwide recognition for her work on the causes and effects of child abuse, on violence towards children and it's cost to society. Having rejected her long involvement with psychoanalysis as a theory that obscures the truth, she searched for, and found, a therapy that would help her resolve the consequences of her own childhood traumas.
Betrayal Trauma: The Logic of Forgetting Childhood Abuse by Jennifer J Freyd. (1996 Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press ).
Dr. Freyd was already a memory researcher when she was dragged into the memory controversy though her parents creation of the False Memory "Syndrome" Foundation. In this well-received work she discusses the physiological and human side of memory and trauma: betrayal and the survival need met by traumatic forgetting, in a clear and reasoned analysis.
Editorial Reviews
Jennifer J. Freyd understands the operation of memory in both professional and personal terms. As an academic psychologist, Professor Freyd has researched the psychological processes of memory and the physiological operation of the mind. In Betrayal Trauma, she uses the generally accepted findings of cognitive science to formulate a psychological theory of recovered memory. But Jennifer J. Freyd's interests and involvement in the study of recovered memories is not strictly academic. During her research, Freyd "uncovered" her own memories of childhood abuse. Her parents, who vehemently denied her allegations, have helped found an organization to support others "falsely accused" by individuals with "recovered memories" of abuse. Freyd's personal stake in the subject matter ironically causes her to go the extra mile in maintaining professional objectivity. While partisan detractors of other stripes will likely disagree, most of Freyd's well-written study sticks to the scientific processes that could supply an explanatory basis for forgetting and remembering traumatic experiences. Freyd mostly eschews victimology. She even considers how artificial memories could be the result of bad psychotherapy. Betrayal Trauma outlines a compelling thesis of how memory operates that addresses a controversial topic with great aplomb. Given her personal involvement, one could have excused [the author] for taking a polemical approach. To her great credit, she does not. Betrayal Trauma is a thoughtful, judicious and thorough scholarly analysis of a subject that has hitherto generated more heat than light.... She argues ... with virtuoso skill, blending vivid anecdote with statistical evidence ... in a highly literate and engaging style.
Recovered Memories of Abuse: Assessment, Therapy, Forensics by Kenneth Pope & Laura Brown. (1996 American Psychological Association)
Another highly rated, comprehensive work, described in reviews as practical for therapists and lawyers.
Remembering Trauma - A psychotherapist's guide to memory and illusion by Phil Mollon
Phil Mollon is a British clinical psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist who has extensive clinical and research experience of working with trauma and dissociation. He was a member of the British Psychological Society's committee which reported on recovered memories. He demonstrates a deep empathy for survivors of trauma and maintain a balanced view of the challenges and controversies which typify this area while emphaisiing the need for clients to reach their own conclusions in their own time.
The Assault on Truth: Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory by Jeffrey Moussaeiff Masson (1992 Fontana books) ISBN 0-00-637739-4
Author Jeffrey Masson was the former Research Director of the Freud Archives and a practising psychoanalyst. In 1981 he used his priviledged access to freud's long-unpublished letters to challenge the very foundations of Freudian theory. The Assualt on Truth asserts that Freud, personally reluctant to face the reality of sexual abuse of children and fearing negative public reaction to such a shocking theory, abandoned a valid scientific finding. Freud's revised theory,- that his patient's memories of seduction and rape were in fact fantasies - then became and remains the basis for the practise of psychoanalysis.
The Truth about 'False Memory Syndrome' by Dr. James Friesen
This book offers a clear and in-depth explanation for survivors of how memory works, and records some dialogs between the therapist and his patients about their own experiences.
BOOKS
WIDELY RECOMMENDED BY SURVIVORS:
Breaking the Bonds - Understanding Depression, Finding Freedom by Dorothy Rowe, Ph.D.
Breaking The Silence: Survivors of Child Abuse Speak Out Edited by Liz Mullinar and Candida Hunt (1997 Hodder & Stoughton) ISBN 0 7336 0483 8
I highly recommend this book for any survivor and any helping professional who works with survivors of child abuse. It is a compilation of contributions from many Australians who are survivors of various kinds of child abuse (including the less publicly acknowledged forms of abuse). A unique book about the process of recovering memories and healing from long-term effects of abuse.
"This is the most honest book I have ever read. How well the psychological isues are explained without jargon..."Linda Bunch BA, MA, Reg. Psych.
Getting Through The Day: Help for Adults Hurt as Children by Nancy Napier
Self-help strategies compiled in a book widely recommended amongst survivor groups.
Healing the Incest Wound by Christine Courtois,.
Managing Traumatic Stress Through Art - Drawing from the Center by Barry Cohen, et. al., 1995,
Designed to help survivors manage and contain overwhelming feelings and images through structured art and writing exercises.
"This workbook is a valuable, practical, and above all useful contribution to the abuse recovery field. Through a series of artwork exercises, survivors of trauma are offered an opportunity to enhance present-day mastery in a grounded, creative, and gentle way." (Nancy J. Napier, M.F.C.C)
Multiple Personality Disorder from the Inside Out Edited by Barry M. Cohen, Esther Giller and LynnW. (Sidran Press) (1997) ISBN 0-9629164-0-4
"A helpful and hopeful look at another way of being, this book dispels the misleading stereotypes of MPD and illuminates the underlying human experience of this tragically misunderstood condition. A must for anyone whose life has been touched by this complex disorder." (Frank W. Putman, M.D., Chief, Unit on Dissociative Disorders, national institute of mental health)
Outgrowing the Pain Together: A book for Spouses and Partners of Adults Abused as Children by Eliana Gil.
For partners of both male and female abuse survivors.
Reach For The Rainbow; Advanced Healing for Survivors of Sexual Abuse by Lynne D. Finney
(1992. New York: Putnam Publishing Group)
The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass & Laura Davis (1992 Reed International Books, Australia) ISBN 0-7493-09385
A few much publicised statements taken out of context have been used by some within the False Memory Foundation to discredit this book which remains a landmark work and is still much appreciated by most abuse survivors and therapist's for it's ability to provide normalisation of the experiences of many survivors of child abuse.
The Gift of Fear - And Other Survival Signals that Protect Us from Danger by Gavin De Becker (1997 Dell Publishing) ISBN 0-440-22619-8
The Invisible Wound by Wayne Kritsberg (1993 Bantam Books) ISBN 0-553-37265-3
The author sensitively and insightfully outlines his deep understanding of the the healing process and valuable self-help strategies. It is my first recommendation for survivors of sexual abuse who are longing for healing.
The Sexual Healing Journey: A guide for Survivors of Sexual Abuse by Wendy Maltz (1991 Harper Perennial). Also available at Amazon.com.
Deals specifically with how to form new associations in order to change sexual responses,
The Woman's Comfort Book: a self-nurturing guide for restoring balance in your life by Jennifer Louden
Toxic Parents by Dr Susan Forward (1990 Bantam Books) ISBN 0-553-28434-7
" I consider Dr Susan Forward to be among the foremost thrapists of our age. In Toxic Parents she offers us a penetrating model of how to heal the frozen grief of our dysfunctional past.... Please read this book!" (John Bradshaw).
Unspeakable Truths and Happy Endings: Human Cruelty and the New Trauma Therapy
by Rebecca Coffey
"This excellent and well-balanced book shows how sensitive listening to traumatic stories can make them more bearable for the tale teller. The author's lucid writing and her intelligent sensitivity make Unspeakable Truths and Happy Endings a most valuable tool for survivors, friends, family, and therapists - for anyone who must come to grips with their reactions to traumatic events. Unspeakable Truths and Happy Endings is an indispensable resource. " (Danny Brom, Director of Research of Amcha, The National Israeli Center for Psychosocial Support of Survivors of the Holocaust )
Victims No Longer by Mark Lew (1990 Reed Consumer Books, London) ISBN 0 7493 1656
For male survivors of incest and child sexual abuse, This little book is informative and compassionate and specifially deals with the issue of societal shaming of male passive victimization through cultural stereotyping of what it means to be male.
Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D. (1992 Ballantine Books) ISBN: 0-345-37744-3
Estes uses myths and metaphors, folk tales and fairy stories from around the world to illustrate the crucial life lessons left unlearned by those whose childhoods were "incomplete initiations". Despite its title, Women Who Run With the Wolves is a classic read regardless of the reader's gender. Through her use of story to analyse parent-child relationships, it may open some doors to emotional realities that are not otherwise easily accessed.
Breaking the Circle of Satanic Ritual Abuse by Daniel Ryder.
Highly recommended by RA survivors for RA survivors..
Releasing The Bonds: Empowering People To Think For Themselves by Steven Hassan; published by Freedom of Mind Press ( 2000)
"Steven's newest book reveals a refined method to help victims of cults. The Strategic Interaction Approach is non-coercive, and an advancement on deprogramming, and exit counseling. Topics covered in depth include: evaluating the situation; interacting with dual identities; communication strategies for phone calls, letter writing and visits; understanding and utilizing cult beliefs and tactics; techniques to reality-test and promote freedom of mind; and planning and implementing effective interventions."
http://www.freedomofmind.com/books.htm
Safe Passage to Healing by Christyne Oksana.
A book by, for, and about, Ritual Abuse survivors.
Treating Survivors of Satanist Abuse edited by Valerie Sinason
This is a compilation from mental health caregivers on their experiences and their approaches to the treatment of SRA trauma.
I Never Called It Rape by Robin Warshaw.
Sexual Violence: Our War Against Rape by Linda Fairstein
A book about the legal prosecution process.
Transforming a Rape Culture edited by Emilie Buchwald, Pamela Fletcher, and Martha Roth
MISCELLANEOUS:
Blaming the Brain: The Real Truth About Drugs and Mental Health by Eliot S. Valenstein, (1986 The Free Press). ISBN 0-684-84964-X
"In this excellent volume, the author invites a renewed dialogue on a subject of medical and social importance: the dogma that mental events, mental disorders, mood, behavior, and personality are explained solely by neurochemistry. Although widely and uncritically accepted by researchers, practitioners, and the public, and despite contradictory evidence, most of the theory and the resulting dogma, the author asserts, are unconvincing and probably wrong." Eliot Valenstein, PhD, emeritus professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Michigan
Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goldberg (1996 Bloomsbury Publishing) ISBN 0-7475-2830-6
The concept of emotional intelligence includes self-awareness and impulse control, persistence, zeal and motivation, empathy and social deftness. These are the qualities that mark people who excel: whose relationships flourish, who are stars in the workplace. With new insights into the brain architecture underlying emotion and rationality, Goleman shows precisely how emoptional intelligence can be nurtured and strengthened in all of us. And because the emotional lessons a child learns actually sculpt the brain's circuitry, Goleman provides detailed guidance as to how parents and schools can apply this understanding.
Inner Work & Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth by Robert A.Johnson(1989 Harper & Row) ISBN 0-06-250437-1
From the best-selling author of "Tranformation" and "Owning your own shadow", this Jungian analyst offeres a practical four-stage approach to using dreams and the imagination for a journey of inner transformation.
More Alike than Different: Treating Severely Dissociative Trauma Survivors By Margo Rivera, Ph.D.
"The phenomenon of widespread physical, emotional and sexual abuse of children is institutionalized patriarchy laid bare. It is one of the most potent tools that we have as a society for creating and maintaining basic power differentials and then masking them so that they seem like an individual's personal problem." -from More Alike Than Different
Reclaiming your life by Jean Jenson, M.S.W. (1996 Penguin Books) ISBN 0-525-93948-2
"Jean Jenson's approach helps the adult to mourn the losses of childhood without at the same time losing himself in the chaos of his own feelings..." (from the foreword by Alice Miller)
"Reflects a wealth of clinical understanding that is too often not present in self-help books." (Jane Middleton)
Subpersonalities: The People Inside Us by John Rown (1995) ISBN 0-415-04329-8
"The notion of "subpersonalities" would seem to be absolutely essential to any psychology or any other approach that seeks to describe what it means to be human. Now Mr Rown has written what is likely to remain for some time the book on this subject, and his important work should be applauded by representatives of many differenet disciplines..." "Here is one of those rare books which can really help the reader to know differently, and more comprehensively, himself or herself as well as other people.." (Robert Masters PhD, director of Research, the Foundation for mind Research, Pomona, New York, USA)
The Body Betrayed: A deeper understanding of women. eating disorders and treatment by Kathryn J. Zerbe, M.D. (1995 Gurze Books) ISBN 0-936077-23-9
"The Body Betrayed" specifically addresses mother/ daughter and father/ daughter relationships, and their association with eating disorders. Also included in this in-depth & comprehensive look at eating disorders are chapters on the impact of sexual and phyisical abuse.
Understanding Abusive Families by James Garbarino and John Eckenrode (1997 Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco)
"Understanding Abusive Families presents a useful overview of the child abuse problem and a cogent plea to stop doing business as usual. If we heeded this plea as a nation, we could begin to help children get beyond the scars of abuse," said Anne Cohn Donnelly, executive director of the National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse."
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