Human Science / Psychology / Psychopathology / Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

The Correlation Between Trauma and Addiction

by Johanna O'Flaherty

Trauma and addiction frequently go together, and when they do they form complex, difficult to treat co-occurring disorders.

Field Exercises: How Veterans Are Healing Themselves through Farming and Outdoor Activities

by Stephanie Westlund

How connecting with nature is helping veterans reintegrate into civilian life and recover from PTSD.

Then They Started Shooting: Children of the Bosnian War and the Adults They Become

by Lynne Jones

An illuminating, decades-spanning analysis of children’s experience during wartime and its reverberation into their adulthood

Psychotherapy in the Wake of War: Discovering Multiple Psychoanalytic Traditions

by Bernd Huppertz, Angela Joyce, Susan Loden & Alfred Ribi et al.

This book shows how the differing views of twenty-three psychoanalysts of different traditions affect theoretical and technical issues in psychoanalytic treatments. Their selections from a series of nine cases...

The Unbroken Soul: Tragedy, Trauma, and Human Resilience

by Henri Parens, Harold P. Blum & Salman Akhtar

The contributors to this volume are keenly aware that mental health professionals, while well trained to identify and treat psychopathology, are insufficiently informed or cognizant of human resilience, of how,...

Supporting Women after Domestic Violence: Loss, Trauma and Recovery

by Hilary Abrahams & Cathy Humphreys

This book offers advice on how to enable women who have experienced domestic violence to embark on a journey of recovery. The book draws on theory, original research and the personal experiences of women who...

The Many Faces of Abuse: Treating the Emotional Abuse of High-Functioning Women

by Joan Lachkar

Dr. Joan Lachkar examines the origins and early warning signs of the psychological violation she describes as a dance between abuser and abused. She goes on to introduce typologies of each (the narcissistic...

How to Deal with Anger, Stress, Depression, Grief & Sadness from Islamic Perspective

by Muhammad Vandestra

The average human being in the developed world battles sadness, anger, stress, depression and worry on a daily basis. While the majority of the world’s population confront extreme poverty, famine, conflict...

Keurium

by J S Lee

Shay Stone lies in a hospital bed, catatonic–dead to the world. Her family thinks it’s a ploy for attention. Doctors believe it’s the result of an undisclosed trauma. At the mercy of memories and visitations,...

They'll Never Be the Same

by Michael S. Scheeringa, Md

Despite advances in understanding and treatment for trauma-related problems, PTSD still goes undetected in most individuals who have it. Clinicians who consider themselves experts miss the diagnosis the vast...

Nightmare in Hostage Hills

by Christina Mask

As a battered mother and her three abused children were chewed up and spit out through a legendary fiasco in custody court, USA, corrupt judges and family lawyers (including her own counsel), incompetent mental...

The Eye Witness

by Ann PeaPie

This book is about trauma, domestic violence, verbal, physical, and sexual abuse from the perspective of the eye witness. This book will also include citations in brief from other works. These citations continue...

Invisble Wounds

by Mac Drinker

The author provides some of the earliest research of post traumatic stress disorder and it origins. Jean-Martin Charcot and Sigmund Freud research of homeless women provided the first clinical diagnoses of people...

Earth’S Hidden Angels

by Janice Bell

Earths Hidden Angels shows how Post-Traumatic Stress DisorderPTSDgradually creeps up on a civilian who has experienced traumatic events in her life. This book also shows how PTSD symptoms began for a military...

Peace with Trees

by Susannah Pitman

One moment life was sunny and carefree. In the next it was stormy and chaotic. That’s what happened to twenty-year-old Susannah Pitman as she stood on the front porch of her childhood home and witnessed a...

When Trauma Survivors Return to Work

by Barbara Barski-Carrow

When Trauma Survivors Return to Work: Understanding Emotional Recovery explains how managers and co-workers can learn to foster the process of emotional recovery for traumatized employees returning to the workplace....

Helping Male Survivors of Sexual Violation to Recover

by Sarah Van Gogh

Placing the experiences of men at the heart of this book, Sarah Van Gogh outlines an integrative approach to effective therapeutic treatment of male child sexual abuse In a culture where to be male is often...

Beautifully Broken, Seeing Beyond Trauma

by Laural Hemenway

Beautifully Broken, Seeing Beyond Trauma

This story is about life and death, but in reverse. It begins with a death and ends with a life. Both are Mine. On October 7, 2014, a part of me suddenly and violently...

Violent Offenders and their Victims: Restorative Justice through Mediation

by Chad C. Breckenridge

Violent Offenders and Their Victims is a holistic and human exploration of the nature of violence and its genesis. Chad C. Breckenridge provides a complete psychoanalytic, child developmental, and neurobehavioral...

Once a Warrior--Always a Warrior

by Charles Hoge

The essential handbook for anyone who has ever returned from a war zone, and their spouse, partner, or family members.

Being back home can be as difficult, if not more so, than the time spent serving in a combat...