Book List
(The inclusion of a book in this list does not mean that we have read it, nor that we are giving it our personal
recommendation. However, all these books have been suggested to us as helpful.)

• Adult Bullying - Perpetrators and Victims by Peter Randall (Routledge)
   
• A Layman's Guide to Managing Fear Using Psychology, Christianity, and Non Resistant Methods by Stanley Popovich (Mountain View)
  (See http://www.managingfear.com - where a selection of free articles is also available.)
   
• Anatomy of Survival by Una Kroll (Mowbrays)
   
• A Practical Workbook for the Depressed Christian by Dr John Lockley (Word Books)
   
• Behind the Smile by Lisa Potts (Hodder and Stoughton)
   
• Bullying: from Backyard to Boardroom (1st edition) edited by Paul McCarthy, Michael Sheehan & William Wilkie (Beyond Bullying Association)
  (Read online at http://web.archive.org/web/20051203081952/http://cwpp.slq.qld.gov.au/bba/book/contents.html)
   
• Bully in Sight by Tim Field (Success Unlimited)
   
• Clergy Killers by Dr G. Lloyd Rediger
   
• Fit To Be A Pastor by Dr G. Lloyd Rediger
   
• Forgive and Live by Una Kroll (Mowbrays)
   
• Freidman's Fables by Dr Edwin Freidman
   
• Gaslighting, The Double Whammy, Interrogation and Other Methods of Covert Control in Psychotherapy & Analysis by Theo. L. Dorpat (Jason Aronson Inc.)
   
• Generation To Generation by Dr Edwin Freidman
   
• How Your Church Family Works by Dr Peter Steinke (Alban Institute)
   
• I Can't Get Over It - A Handbook for Trauma Survivors by Aphrodite Matsakis PhD (New Harbinger Publications, Inc.)
   
• In An Eagle's Nest by Dr Diane Ostrander Bennett, PhD. with Casendra C., Rachel J., and Tausha R. Ostrander (Creative Home And Family Endeavors)
   
• Lucifer Grows In Our Garden: An Anatomy of Clergy Abuse by Barry Robinson (Fernstone Books)
   
• Mask - Personality Disorders in Religious Organizations by N. Snarey
   
• Ministry Burnout by John Sanford
   
• Overcoming Traumatic Stress - A self-help guide using Cognitive Behaviour Techniques by Claudia Herbert & Ann Wetmore (Robinson Publishing Ltd)
   
• People Of The Lie by Dr M. Scott Peck
   
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - The Invisible Injury by David Kinchin (Success Unlimited)
   
• Power for God's Sake - Power and Abuse in the Local Church by Paul Beasley-Murray (Paternoster Press)
   
• Shattered Dreams by Larry Crabb (WaterBrook Press - a division of Random House)
   
• The New Pharisaism: How Spiritual Bullies Attack the Church by Bill Slabaugh
   
• The Pressure's Off by Larry Crabb (WaterBrook Press - a division of Random House)
   
• The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse by David Johnson & Jeff Van Vonderen (Bethany House Publishers)
   
• The Wounded Minister: Healing from and Preventing Personal Attacks by Guy Greenfield PhD (Baker Books)
   
• Time Bomb in the Church by Daniel Spaite
   
• Understanding Stress Breakdown by Dr William Wilkie (Newleaf)
   
• Waking the Tiger - Healing Trauma by Peter A. Levine (North Atlantic Books)
   
• Well Intentioned Dragons by Peter Steinke
   
• When Sheep Attack by Dennis R. Maynard
   
• Workplace Bullying - What do we know, who is to blame and what can we do? by Charlotte Rayner, Helge Hoel, Cary Cooper (Taylor & Francis 2001)

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