From domestic abuse to political terror, new edition, with a new afterward by the author.

In an age of Prozac and victimhood, we are not encouraged to take control of our behavioural ailments. This book, based on the authors' years of work with stress and trauma victims, aims to pass control back to the individual and away from the treatment centre.

Presents a true story of a woman with sixteen personalities - two of whom were men - and her struggle, against overwhelming odds, for health and happiness.

A powerful novel with a believable, bitterly ironic teenage heroine, following her through her first year at high school, from outcast to acceptance.

This work is a guide through the processes of recovering from post-traumatic stress disorder resulting from crime, accidents, rape, violence, and sexual abuse; offering help with memories and emotions - recognizing related problems, such as depression, compulsive behaviour and low

Miller believes that violence and crime in society have their roots in conventional child rearing and in education which can create a childhood prison. Miller describes how her discoveries can create freedom from this prison. This edition has been revised since her renunciation of psychoanalysis.

In this text, Aphrodite Matsakis guides survivors through the aftermath of trauma, to strengthen existing bonds, build new ones, and end self-perpetuating cycles of withdrawal and isolation.

Relates the impact of trauma on the body to the phenomenon of somatic memory. The book illuminates the value of understanding the psychophysiology of trauma for both therapists and their traumatised clients. It progresses from relevant theory to applicable practice.

To eliminate her own repression, Alice Miller sought a therapy that would allow the injured child within the adult to find its own language. She found a method that enables her to resolve the consequences of her own childhood traumas. Now she shares her knowledge with us.

Hailed as the most important method to emerge in psychotherapy in decades, EMDR has successfully treated psychological problems and illnesses in more than one million sufferers worldwide, with a rapidity that defies belief. In a new introduction, Shapiro presents the new applications of this remarkable therapy and the latest scientific research that demonstrates its efficacy.

A novel about life and death, forgiveness and vengeance, memory and forgetting - but, above all, about finding light in the darkest of places.

The Asian literary phenomenon of the 90s.

The remarkable debut novel from Khaled Hosseini, now out in paperback in a stunning new package

From the author of the international number one bestseller I Know This Much is True comes a magnificent novel which explores the consequence of violent events, and the chaos that ensues, for human lives blown irrevocably off course

Incorporates psychohistorical analyses of Hitler, Stalin and Ceausescu to reveal the links between the horrors of the world. The author pleads for an awareness of society's role in child abuse and for recognition of the victim.

The text connects adult creativity with childhood traumas and attempts to undermine our acceptance of repressive parental figures by reliving our childhood history. This work aims to answer such questions as why Hitler became a mass murderer and why Buster Keaton never smiled.

Written by a practising chartered clinical psychologist, this book aims to help sufferers of abuse - whether emotional, physical or sexual in nature - understand the link between past trauma and present difficulties and gain control using cognitive behavioural techniques.

A world-renowned child psychiatrist takes us inside his pioneering work with trauma victims to offer a groundbreaking new perspective on how stress and violence affect childrens brains-and how they can be helped to heal

A workbook for women.