Trauma and Dissociation Books

New and Published Books

1. Trauma and the Soul

   A psycho-spiritual approach to human development and its interruption

   By Donald Kalsched

   In Trauma and the Soul, Donald Kalsched continues the exploration he began in his first book, The Inner World of Trauma (1996)—this time going further into the mystical or spiritual moments that often occur around the intimacies of psychoanalytic work. Through extended clinical vignettes, including...

   Published April 15th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Alchemy of Wolves and Sheep: A Relational Approach to Internalized Perpetration in Complex Trauma Survivors

   By Harvey L. Schwartz

   The literature on psychological trauma and traumatic attachment has progressed over the past few decades, however issues of coerced and internalized perpetration have not been fully explored and deconstructed. This book presents a synthesis of relational and archetypal psychology, trauma and...

   Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
3. The Power of Witnessing

   Reflections, Reverberations, and Traces of the Holocaust: Trauma, Psychoanalysis, and the Living Mind

   Edited by Nancy R. Goodman, Marilyn B. Meyers

   Witnessing comes in as many forms as the trauma that gives birth to it. The Holocaust, undeniably one of the greatest traumatic events in recent human history, still resonates into the twenty-first century. The echoes that haunt those who survived continue to reach their children and others who did...

   Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Silent Past and the Invisible Present

   Memory, Trauma, and Representation in Psychotherapy

   By Paul Renn

   Series: Relational Perspectives Book Series

   Drawing on research in the fields of cognitive and developmental psychology, attachment, trauma, and neuroscience, as well as 20 years in forensic and private practice, Paul Renn deftly illustrates the ways in which this research may be used to inform an integrated empirical/hermeneutic model...

   Published January 19th 2012 by Routledge
5. Awakening the Dreamer

   Clinical Journeys

   By Philip M. Bromberg

   In Awakening the Dreamer: Clinical Journeys, Philip Bromberg continues the illuminating explorations into dissociation and clinical process begun in Standing in the Spaces (1998). Bromberg is among our most gifted clinical writers, especially in his unique ability to record peripheral...

   Published September 9th 2010 by Routledge
6. Partners in Thought

   Working with Unformulated Experience, Dissociation, and Enactment

   By Donnel B. Stern

   Series: Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series

   Building on the innovative work of Unformulated Experience, Donnel B. Stern continues his exploration of the creation of meaning in clinical psychoanalysis with Partners in Thought. The chapters in this fascinating book are undergirded by the concept that the meanings which arise from...

   Published August 20th 2009 by Routledge
7. The Dissociative Mind

   By Elizabeth F. Howell

   Drawing on the pioneering work of Janet, Freud, Sullivan, and Fairbairn and making extensive use of recent literature, Elizabeth Howell develops a comprehensive model of the dissociative mind. Dissociation, for her, suffuses everyday life; it is a relationally structured survival strategy...

   Published April 9th 2008 by Routledge
8. Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty

   Trauma-Centered Psychoanalysis

   By Doris Brothers

   Series: Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series

   Since trauma is a thoroughly relational phenomenon, it is highly unpredictable, and cannot be made to fit within the scientific framework Freud so admired. In Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty: Trauma-Centered Psychoanalysis, Doris Brothers urges a return to a trauma-centered psychoanalysis....

   Published November 28th 2007 by Routledge
9. Trauma and Human Existence

   Autobiographical, Psychoanalytic, and Philosophical Reflections

   By Robert D. Stolorow

   Series: Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series

   Trauma and Human Existence effectively interweaves two themes central to emotional trauma - the first pertains to the contextuality of emotional life in general, and of the experience of emotional trauma in particular, and the second pertains to the recognition that the possibility of emotional...

   Published June 26th 2007 by Routledge
10. Wounded By Reality

    Understanding and Treating Adult Onset Trauma

    By Ghislaine Boulanger

    Series: Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series

    The culmination of three decades of studying and treating survivors of adult onset trauma, Wounded by Reality is the first systematic attempt to differentiate adult onset trauma from childhood trauma, with which it is frequently confused. When catastrophic events overtake adult lives, they often...

    Published March 1st 2007 by Routledge