Trauma resources
Books, articles, videos and other material covering issues around trauma
Trauma reading list
A selection of books, chapters and journal articles selected by staff members of the Tavistock Trauma Service available as an online reading list. Shibboleth username and password might be required to access materials.
Trauma Service books
Key texts from writers linked to the Tavistock Trauma Service, all available as ebooks from the library catalogue:

Learning about trauma
Psychoeducation information PDF files produced by the Tavistock Trauma Service.
Staff publications on Trauma
Our Staff Publications Online repository supports Open Access publishing and includes work on trauma. You’ll find theses, book chapters, articles and media appearances by Trust staff and research students, and we make full-text downloads available whenever possible. Publications start from 2007 go up to the present day.
Scientific Meeting recording
Watch a recording of Dr Joanne Stubley’s Scientific Meeting presentation from September 2020 on the history and the theory behind the work of the Tavistock Trauma Service (Shibboleth login required).

Dissociative Identity Disorder
Resources focussed on Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID):
- ‘Aiding the diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder: Pattern recognition study of brain biomarkers’ by Reinders, A. et al. (2018).
- ‘Awakening the Dreamer: Clinical Journeys’ by Bromberg, P.M. (Analytic Press, 2006). (Not available from the Tavistock and Portman Library).
- ‘Dark Matters: Exploring the Realm of Psychic Devastation’ by Brenner, I. (Karnac, 2014).
- ‘Dissociative identity disorder: An empirical overview’ by Dorahy, M.J. et al. (2014) (Not available from the Tavistock and Portman Library).
- ‘Dissociative identity disorder exists and is the result of childhood trauma’ (web article in The Conversation).
- ‘Dissociation of the personality and EMDR therapy in complex trauma-related disorders: Applications in the stabilization phase’ by van der Hart, O. et al. (2013).
- ‘Feeling Unreal: Depersonalization Disorder and the Loss of the Self’ by Simeon, D. and Abugel, J. (Oxford University Press, 2006). (Not available from the Tavistock and Portman Library).
- ‘Healing the fragmented selves of trauma survivors: overcoming internal self-alienation’ by Fisher, J. (Routledge, 2017). (Not available from the Tavistock and Portman Library).
- ‘Neurobiology of dissociation: Unity and disunity in mind-body-brain’ by Frewen, P. A. and Lanius, R. A. (2006). (Not available from the Tavistock and Portman Library).
- ‘Revisiting the etiological aspects of dissociative identity disorder: a biopsychosocial perspective’ by Şar, V., Dorahy, M. J. and Krüger, C. (2017).
- ‘Staying the same while changing: Reflections on clinical judgement’ (pp. 291–308) in Standing in the Spaces: Essays on Clinical Process, Trauma and Dissociation by Bromberg, P. M. (Analytic Press, 1999). (Not available from the Tavistock and Portman Library).
- ‘The dissociative mind in psychoanalysis: understanding and working with trauma’ by Howell, E. and Itzkowitz, S. (eds) (2016).
- ‘The Shadow of the Tsunami and the Growth of the Relational Mind’ by Bromberg, P. M (Routledge, 2011). (Not available from the Tavistock and Portman Library).
- ‘Trauma, Dissociation and Multiplicity: working on identity and selves’ by Sinason, V. (ed) (2011).
- ‘Do no Harm’ Rouf, K. & Taggart, D. in Trauma and Memory: the Science and the Silenced by Sinason, V. and Conway, A. (eds.) (Routledge, 2022). (Not available from the Tavistock and Portman Library).
- ‘Unformulated Experience: From Dissociation to Imagination in Psychoanalysis’ by Stern, D. B. (Routledge, 2003). (Not available from the Tavistock and Portman Library).
- ‘Understanding and Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder: A Relational Approach’ by Howell, E. (2011).
- ‘What it’s like To live with Dissociative Identity Disorder’ by advocate Amelia Joubert.
Non-recent CSA
Books and articles on non-recent Childhood Sexual Abuse:
- ‘A follow-up study of mental health service utilisation in a cohort of 2433 sexually abused Australian children utilising five years of medical data’ by Guha, A., et al. (2019). (Not available from the Tavistock and Portman Library).
- ‘A global perspective on child sexual abuse: Meta-analysis of prevalence around the world’ by Stoltenborgh, M., et al. (2011).
- ‘Bodies of Subversion’ by Mifflin, M. (Juno, 1997). (Not available from the Tavistock and Portman Library).
- ‘Childhood sexual abuse and posttraumatic stress disorder among pregnant and postpartum women: Review of the literature’ by Wosu, A.C. et al. (2015).
- ‘Confusion of tongues between the adult and the child’ by Ferenczi, S. (1949).
- ‘Difficulties in maintaining an analytic stance in the treatment of adults who were sexually abused as children’ by Levine, H.B. (1997).
- ‘Dissociation, therapeutic enactment, and transference-countertransference processes; A discussion of papers on childhood sexual abuse by S. Grand and J. Sarnat’ by Davies, J. M. (1997).
- ‘Exposure to childhood sexual and physical abuse and adjustment in early adulthood’ by Fergusson, D. et al. (2008).
- ‘Father-daughter incest’ by Herman, J. (Harvard University Press, 2000).
- ‘Long-term outcome of childhood sexual abuse: An umbrella review’ by Hailes, H., et al. (2019).
- ‘Preliminary evidence for sensitive periods in the effect of childhood sexual abuse on regional brain development’ by Andersen, S.L. (2008).
- ‘Psychopathology in a large cohort of sexually abused children followed up to 43 years’ by Cutajar, M. (2010). (Not available from the Tavistock and Portman Library).
- ‘Psychotherapy with survivors of sexual violence: inside and outside the room’ by Hadjiioannou, E. (Routledge, 2022). (Not available from the Tavistock and Portman Library).
- ‘The Shame Experience’ by Miller, S. (Analytic Press, 1985). (Not available from the Tavistock and Portman Library).
- ‘Treating the Adult Survivor of Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Psychoanalytic Perspective’ by Messler Davies, J., and Frawley, M. G. (New York: Basic Books, 1994).
- ‘Shame and Jealousy: The Hidden Turmoils’ by Mollon, P. (Karnac, 2002). (Not available from the Tavistock and Portman Library).
- ‘Shame and the construction of the self’ by Thrane, G. (1979).
Films and TV
- Allen v Farrow (Sky Documentaries)
- Cracked Up: The Darrell Hammond Story (film)
- Dolores Claiborne (Watch now on BoB)
- Leaving Neverland (Watch now on BoB)
- Madonna Of The Seven Moons (Watch on BoB)
- Maid (Netflix)
- Mystic River (Watch now on BoB)
- Never Rarely Sometimes Always (film)
- Nobody Knows (Watch now on BoB)
- Osama (film)
- Sulphur And White (film)
- System Crasher (film)
- The Accused (Watch now on BoB)
- The Celebration / Festen (Watch now on BoB)
- The Stories We Tell (film)
- ’71 (Watch now on BoB)
Novels
- After You’d Gone by Maggie O’Farrell
- All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
- Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
- Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
- Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
- Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
- Housekeeping by Marilynne Lawrence
- Maybe I Don’t Belong Here by David Harewood
- Milkman by Anna Burns
- My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent
- My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
- My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
- Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan
- The Haunting of Alma Fielding by Kate Summerscale
- The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
Trauma BoB playlist
opens in a new windowBoB is an online TV and radio service for education and gives access to millions of archive programmes. The Library has created an Trauma playlist with broadcasts from the 1990s to the present. Shibboleth login required.