Trauma resources

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

Scientific Meeting ‘Working with Trauma’

Watch a recording of Dr Joanne Stubley’s Scientific Meeting presentation ‘Working with Trauma’ from September 2020, which covers the history and the theory behind the work of the Tavistock Trauma Service. Shibboleth login required

Trauma Service books

Key texts from writers linked to the Tavistock Trauma Service:

• Garland, C. (ed.) (2002) Understanding Trauma: A Psychoanalytical Approach: Second Enlarged Edition.
• Levy, S., and Lemma, A. (2004) The Perversion of Loss: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Trauma.
• Stubley, J. and Young, L. (2022) Complex Trauma: the Tavistock Model.

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 from 2007 to the present day

BoB trauma playlist

Box of Broadcasts (BoB) is an online TV and radio service for education and gives access to millions of archive programmes. The Library has created a Trauma playlist with broadcasts from the 1990s to the present. Shibboleth login required

Journals on trauma

• Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma
• Journal of Family Violence
• Journal of Loss and Trauma: International Perspectives on Stress and Coping
• Journal of Trauma and Dissociation
• Journal of Traumatic Stress
• Trauma, Violence, & Abuse
• Violence Against Women

Podcasts

• Allen v. Farrow podcast
• Bessel van der Kolk interview
• Heinz Weiss interview
• IRISS
• Jo Stubley on complex PTSD
• Jo Stubley on the effects of trauma
• Jo Stubley on the impact of child sexual abuse
• Jo Stubley on trauma and EMDR
• Judith Herman interview
• Pauline Boss interview
• Siding with the Enemy

Learning about trauma

Psychoeducation information PDF files produced by the Tavistock Trauma Service:

• Avoidance
• Dissociation
• Emotion regulation
• Grounding
• How does trauma affect the mind and body?
• Keeping a gratitude journal
• Managing anxiety
• Managing flashbacks
• Managing nightmares
• Sleep
• Understanding trauma and how it affects us

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 (watch on BoB)
• 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