Book Reviews
Book Review: Black Men and Racial Trauma: Impacts, Disparities, and Interventions
Review by: Nancy Maguire Section Editors: Serena Wadhwa & Omewha Beaton Yamonte Cooper, (New York, NY: Routledge), 2024, 314 Pages, ISBN 978-1032554105 (hardback), 978-1032554112 (paperback) Dr. Yamonte Cooper’s work, Black Men and Racial Trauma: Impacts, Disparities and Interventions, is seminal. He begins by articulating the meaning of anti-Blackness, simply and clearly stated as “racism based…
Read MoreBook Review: Blackbird: A Novel
By Carol Carson2023Hound Press. ISBN: 979-8-9869933-0-0 At the outset, let me say unequivocally that Blackbird is a page turner. It is the riveting story of a child, Jane, who endures horrendous abuse. It is categorized as fiction, although Carole Carson acknowledges in her Author’s Note it is about her life — with liberties taken for…
Read MoreBook Review: Psychoanalysis, COVID & mass trauma: The Trauma of reality
By Tihamér Bakó & Katalin Zana Translated by R. Robinson. Routledge2023 It is widely agreed in the academic community that COVID-19 is a contemporary event of loss and trauma (see Miller, 2020). The reality of global and pervasive trauma forced mankind to stand together for the first time in history in the face of uncertainty,…
Read MoreBook review: Headwaters Series
By Headwaters Headwaters has authored several books to help children and families process disaster-related grief and loss and develop coping skills. The books have been translated into over 15 languages and have addressed the earthquake in Haiti, the typhoon in the Philippines, Ebola in West Africa, trafficking and girls’ empowerment in Nepal, earthquakes and hurricanes…
Read MoreBook Review – Working With Traumatic Memories To Heal Adults With Unresolved Childhood Trauma
Review by Omewha Beaton, PhD By Petra Winnette , PhD and Jonathan Baylin, PhD 2017 Jessica Kingsley Publishers Working with traumatic memories to heal adults with unresolved childhood trauma: Neuroscience, attachment theory and Pesso Boyden system psychomotor psychotherapy is a collaborative effort by Petra Winnette, PhD, a psychotherapist, and Jonathan Baylin, PhD, a clinical psychologist.…
Read MoreBook Review – Posttraumatic play in children: What clinicians need to know
By Eliana Gil2017The Guilford Press Eliana Gil’s gentle and sensitive approach to children and their families is evident throughout her book on posttraumatic play therapy. She calls her approach Trauma-Focused Integrative Play Therapy (TFIPT). Dr. Gil aims her book towards clinicians, mainly focusing on complex, chronic, and ‘unrelenting’ Type II traumas, which include multiple types…
Read MoreBook Review – The blue dragonfly: Healing through poetry
By Veronica Eley2021Hidden Brook Press Veronica Eley’s The Blue Dragonfly: healing through poetry offers an unusually poignant testament of the poet’s decades-spanning struggle with traumatic after-effects in daily life. Eley’s poems trace a lifelong struggle with mental illness that first emerges in childhood. By age 7 she was: “alreadyshowing signsof emotionaldisturbancebipolarin today’s terms.” She portrays…
Read MoreBook Review – Emotional Neglect and the Adult in Therapy: Lifelong Consequences to a Lack of Early Attunement
Stauffer, K. A. (2021)W. W. Norton & Company I believe it was during a conference in 2015 when I first heard Martin Teicher talk about the impact of neglect in young children; how there was growing evidence that in comparing the “neglect trajectory” and “abuse trajectory” for the deleterious impact on the developing brain, neglect…
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