Books

Books that I have found helpful and/or interesting; however some of the following books may trigger difficult feelings in survivors

    • Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence-from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror by Judith Herman (Υπάρχει και στα Ελληνικά)
    • Strong at the Broken Places: Overcoming the Trauma of Childhood Abuse by Linda Sanford
    • The Right to Innocence: Healing the Trauma of Childhood Sexual Abuse by Beverly Engel
    • The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass and Louise Thornton
    • No Secrets, No Lies: How Black Families Can Heal from Sexual Abuse by Robin Stone
    • Helping Abused and Traumatized Children; Integrative Directive and Nondirective Approaches by Eliana Gil
    • Treating Trauma and Traumatic Grief in Children and Adolescents by J. Cohen, A. Mannarino and E. Deblinger
    • The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment by Babette Rothschild
    • I Never Told Anyone: Writings of Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse edited by Ellen Bass and Louise Thornton
    • Breaking the Silence: Survivors of Child Abuse Speak Out edited by Liz Mullinar and Candida Hunt
    • Dissociative Identity Disorder: Sourcebook by Deborah Bray Haddock
    • The Stranger in the Mirror: Dissociation the Hidden Epidemic by M. Steinberg and M. Schnall
    • The Myth of Sanity: Divided Consciousness and the Promise of Awareness by Martha Stout
    • Fight! Rabbit! Fight! Stories of Ritual Abuse by Laurie Matthew
    • Breaking Down the Wall of Silence by Alice Miller
    • The Untouched Key: Tracing Childhood Trauma in Creativity and Destructiveness by Alice Miller
    • The Art Therapy Sourcebook by Cathy Malchiodi
    • Dibs in Search of Self by Virginia Axline
    • On the Path: Affirmations for Adults Recovering from Childhood Sexual Abuse by Nancy W.
    • Patrizia Romito (2008) A Deafening Silence: Hidden Violence against Women and Children (translated into English by Janet Eastwood), SEPS, Italy
    • The Haunted Self: Structural Dissociation and the Treatment of Chronic Traumatisation by Onno van der Hart, Ellert Nijenhuis and Kathy Steele, Publisher: W.W. Norton – 2006 (A theoretical approach on trauma-related dissociation of the personality and treatment model which unifies psychiatric disorders with a traumatic stress origin) www.onnovdhart.nl
    • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
    • ‘Far from being of mere historical interest, the global battle for Enlightenment, as Kant characterizes it, is still well and truly on; (p. 14) …..’Medieval ideas that were killed stone dead by the rise of science 3 to 4 hundred years ago are not merely twitching; they are alive and well in our schools, colleges and universities (The Guardian 2001)’…(p.13) ‘…individuals should be raised and educated to question and think critically and independently rather than defer more or less uncritically to external authority…’ (p.14) in The War for Children’s Minds by Stephen Law, Routledge London (available in Greece)
    • ‘And once survivors do all the talking and writing we will truly have the paradigm shift that happened once the Women’s Movement took on domestic abuse and child abuse’ by Valerie Sinason in  Ritual Abuse and Mind Control: The Manipulation of Attachment Needs edited by O. Epstein, J. Schwartz & R. Wingfield Schwartz, The Bowlby Centre Karnac (available in Greece)
    • ‘The victim and the analyst who listens to his or her narrative, must replace the traumatic experience within a political, social space and time framework, restoring the context in which the trauma occurred, in an attempt to make it meaningful both for the victim’s personal history and for history itself’ by Rene Kaes in  Bearing Witness; Psychoanalytic Work with People Traumatized by Torture and State Violence edited by Andre Gautier & Anna Sabatini Scalmati, published by Karnac for EFPP (available in Greece)
    • Memoirs and autobiographies by survivorsNo two survivors of trauma are the same, but what survivors’ stories and memoirs commonly reflect is human resilience and the mind’s potential for plasticity and creativity during adversity and horror, as well as, the prevalence of goodness and love over evil and violence.
    • Switching Time by Richard Baer (2007-10-02), Crown Publishing Group, Kindle Edition ‘Our therapeutic relationship has turned into a close and respectful friendship. The time we’ve spent together has forever altered both our lives. This work—both the therapy and the book—has been a true collaborative effort’.
    • Half the House by Richard Hoffman (2012-09-13), Kindle Edition ‘Sometimes you have to forget. To go on. I know that. But other times, to go on, you have to remember.’
    • No Ocean Here: Stories in Verse about Women from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East by Sweta Srivastava Vikram, World Voices, Modern History Press, (2013-02-08 – Kindle Edition)…. Read short extracts of Vikram’s poems and brief presentation of this book in the News (June) section of this site
    • Trauma Model Therapy: A Treatment Approach for Trauma Dissociation and Complex Comorbidity by Colin A. Ross and Naomi Halpern (2011-10-24 – Kindle Edition)… Read more about this book in the News (June) section of this site
    • Bob Tells All by Sheila Hollins and Valerie Sinason, Books Beyond Words, Kindle Edition…. A picture book for people with intellectual disabilities, who do not read or find pictures easier to understand than words
    • In the Best Interests of the Child by Hetty Johnston, 2004, Pluto Press Australia ‘It was then that we began to realize the damage silence and secrecy causes. My research continued and the more I learned the more I understood that I would not be silenced’
      ‘Meanwhile, a former female student of the Anglican Toowoomba Preparatory School was quietly preparing a David and Goliath battle with the Anglican Church and school, to which she had been entrusted by her parents, and which had betrayed all so completely. This young woman’s courage was to set the scene for a historic controversy that would change lives forever’
    • Coping with Trauma-related Dissociation: Skills for Patients and Therapists (2011) by S. Boon, K. Steele & Onno van der Hart, Norton Series
    • Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy (2006) by Pat Ogden, Kekuni Minton & Clare Pain with Foreword by Bessel van der Kolk & Daniel J. Siegel, Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology
    • Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology: An Integrative Handbook of the Mind (2012) by Dan Siegel, Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology
    • Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation (2010, Daniel J. Siegel, Bantam Books)