EMDR: The Breakthrough ""Eye Movement"" Therapy For Overcoming Anxiety, Stress, And Trauma
10 best books like EMDR: The Breakthrough ""Eye Movement"" Therapy For Overcoming Anxiety, Stress, And Trauma (Francine Shapiro): Rebuilding Shattered Lives: Treating Complex PTSD and Dissociative Disorders, I Can't Get Over It: A Handbook for Trauma Survivors, Too Scared To Cry: Psychic Trauma In Childhood, The Emotional Incest Syndrome: What to do When a Parent's Love Rules Your Life, Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society, Family Therapy Techniques, The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Creating Connection, Ethnicity and Family Therapy, Therapeutic Communication: Knowing What to Say When, Psychotherapy without the Self: A Buddhist Perspective
Rebuilding Shattered Lives: Treating Complex PTSD and Dissociative Disorders
| Author | James A. Chu |
| ISBN | 0470768746 |
"Rebuilding Shattered Lives" presents valuable insights into the rebuilding of adult psyches shattered in childhood, drawing on the author's extensive research and clinical experience specializing in treating survivors of severe abuse.
The new edition includes:
- Developments...
I Can't Get Over It: A Handbook for Trauma Survivors
In this ground-breaking book, Dr. Matsakis explains that post-traumatic stress disorder affects not just soldiers, but also suruvivors of many other types of trauma including:
•crime
•vehicular accidents
•rape
•family violence
•sexual...
Too Scared To Cry: Psychic Trauma In Childhood
| Author | Lenore Terr |
| ISBN | 0465086446 |
Pretty good considering it was one of the first books in the field. That gave it an extra star. I wish it had more scientific data to back up some of her more outrageous assertions. I completely disagree with the author's statement towards the end of the book that it is still important for children to have...
Emotional Incest is something not many people have heard of. It’s when a parent/guardian uses a child to fulfill their emotional needs. Something they should be seeking other adults for. Example: the parent that tells their child every aspect of their day in detail. Or the parent that complains about...
Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society
| Author | Bessel A. van der Kolk |
This bestselling classic presents seminal theory and research on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Together, the leading editors and contributors comprehensively examine how trauma affects an individual's biology, conceptions of the world, and psychological functioning. Key topics...
Family Therapy Techniques
| Author | Salvador Minuchin |
| ISBN | 0674294106 |
A master of family therapy, Salvador Minuchin, traces for the first time the minute operations of day-to-day practice. Dr. Minuchin has achieved renown for his theoretical breakthroughs and his success at treatment. Now he explains in close detail those precise and difficult maneuvers that constitute...
| Author | Sue Johnson |
| ISBN | 0415945682 |
Since its original publication in 1996, this volume has been a helpful guide to therapists in the practice of emotionally focused therapy. This second edition addresses the many changes in the field of couples therapy, including updated research results linked to clinical intervention and new information...
| Author | Monica McGoldrick |
| ISBN | 1593850204 |
This widely used clinical reference and text provides a wealth of knowledge on culturally sensitive practice with families and individuals from over 40 different ethnic groups. Each chapter demonstrates how ethnocultural factors may influence the assumptions of both clients and therapists,...
| Author | Paul L. Wachtel |
| ISBN | 1572304162 |
This uniquely practical volume examines precisely what the therapist can say at key moments to enhance therapeutic effectiveness and the process of healing and change. Through vivid clinical illustrations, the book illuminates why some communications in therapy are particularly effective,...
| Author | Mark Epstein |
| ISBN | 0300123418 |
Immersed in Buddhist psychology prior to studying Western psychiatry, Dr. Mark Epstein first viewed Western therapeutic approaches through the lens of the East. This posed something of a challenge. Although both systems promise liberation through self-awareness, the central tenet of Buddha's...
| Author | Virginia M. Axline |
| ISBN | 0345303350 |
"The most brilliant and intuitive, as well as the clearest written, work in this field. It is unpretentious yet clearly the most authoritative work that has been published."
NORMAN CAMERON, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry
Yale University School of Medicine
Here is an intensely practical...
| Author | Virginia Satir |
| ISBN | 0831400633 |
Virginia Satir (1916 – 1988) was an American author and psychotherapist, known especially for her approach to family therapy and her work with Systemic Constellations. She is widely regarded as the "Mother of Family Therapy" Her most well-known books are Conjoint Family Therapy, 1964, Peoplemaking,...
| Author | Heinz Kohut |
| ISBN | 0823658104 |
In his foundational work The Restoration of the Self, noted psychoanalyst Heinz Kohut boldly challenges what he called “the limits of classical analytic theory” and the Freudian orthodoxy. Here Kohut proposes a “psychology of the self” as a theory in its own right—one that can stand beside...
When Anger Hurts: Quieting the Storm Within
| Author | Matthew McKay |
| ISBN | 1572243449 |
A major revision of the best-selling classic — a quarter of a million copies sold.
This new edition of When Anger Hurts is a complete, step-by-step guide to changing habitual anger-generating thoughts while developing healthier, more effective ways of meeting your needs. It includes...
Handbook of Clinical Psychopharmacology for Therapists
| Author | John D. Preston |
| ISBN | 1572245352 |
Before I lavish praise on this book, first let me make a disclaimer: the information packed into this tome is astonishing - not to mention extremely informative. However, it is what is says: clinical. And therefore quite daunting. So as such, I'm really not actually 'recommending' that anyone run out...
Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy
| Author | Pat Ogden |
| ISBN | 0393704572 |
Psychotherapists who have been trained in models of psychodynamic, psychoanalytic, or cognitive therapeutic approaches are skilled at listening to the language and affect of the client. They track the clients' associations, fantasies, and signs of psychic conflict, distress, and defenses....
Healing Trauma: Attachment, Mind, Body and Brain
| Author | Marion F. Solomon |
| ISBN | 0393703967 |
As we move into the third millennium, the field of mental health is in an exciting position to bring together diverse ideas from a range of disciplines that illuminate our understanding of human experience: neurobiology, developmental psychology, traumatology, and systems theory. The contributors...
Principles of Trauma Therapy: A Guide to Symptoms, Evaluation, and Treatment
| Author | John Briere |
| ISBN | 0761929215 |
Principles of Trauma Therapy: A Guide to Symptoms, Evaluation, and Treatment is a hands-on, practical guide to trauma treatment that integrates a multi-modal approach to a wide range of posttraumatic outcomes. Authors John Briere and Catherine Scott articulate a nonpathologizing, phenomenological...
Treating Complex Traumatic Stress Disorders (Adults): An Evidence-Based Guide
| Author | Christine A. Courtois |
| ISBN | 1606230395 |
Combining scientific and clinical perspectives, this volume brings together leading authorities on complex traumatic stress and its treatment in adults. Contributors review the research that supports the conceptualization of complex traumatic stress as distinct from PTSD. They explore the...
Treating Trauma and Traumatic Grief in Children and Adolescents
| Author | Judith A. Cohen |
| ISBN | 1593853084 |
This is the authoritative guide to conducting trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy (TF-CBT), a systematic, evidence-based treatment for traumatized children and their families. Provided is a comprehensive framework for assessing posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety,...
Attachment-Focused Parenting: Effective Strategies to Care for Children
| Author | Daniel A. Hughes |
| ISBN | 0393707156 |
Attachment security and affect regulation have long been buzzwords in therapy circles, but many of these ideas—so integral to successful therapeutic work with kids and adolescents— have yet to be effectively translated to parenting practice itself. Moreover, as neuroscience reveals how...
The Unsayable: The Hidden Language of Trauma
| Author | Annie G. Rogers |
| ISBN | 1400061954 |
In her twenty years as a clinical psychologist, Annie Rogers has learned to understand the silent language of girls who will not–who cannot–speak about devastating sexual trauma. Abuse too painful to put into words does have a language, though, a language of coded signs and symptoms that conventional...
Between Therapist and Client: The New Relationship
| Author | Michael Kahn |
| ISBN | 0805071008 |
Perhaps the most important aspect of the therapeutic process is the relationship between therapist and client. For years, two major schools of thought have strongly disagreed about what the nature of that relationship should be. The humanists emphasized warmth and empathy. The psychoanalysts...
Trauma-Proofing Your Kids: A Parents' Guide for Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience
| Author | Peter A. Levine |
| ISBN | 1556436998 |
The number of anxious, depressed, hyperactive and withdrawn children is staggering—and still growing! Millions have experienced bullying, violence (real or in the media), abuse or sexual molestation. Many other kids have been traumatized from more “ordinary” ordeals such as terrifying...
