​The World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century.
Dmitri Alperovitch, Garrett M. Graff.
Public Affairs. 2024.
ISBN: 9781541704091.
 
World on the Brink is a warning that the U.S. and China are entering a new Cold War, with a high-stakes era of rivalry between the United States and China. They present Taiwan as the central crisis point, warning that a conflict there could trigger catastrophic consequences for global security and the world economy. Rather than treating war as inevitable, the book lays out a strategy for deterrence, emphasizing U.S. resolve, alliances, and long-term preparedness. It reads as a forceful, policy-driven call to action: urgent in tone, grounded in national security concerns, and aimed at readers who want to understand the China challenge in practical terms.
 
Dmitri Alperovitch is a cybersecurity expert, think-tank founder, and co-founder/former CTO of CrowdStrike. He has been a prominent analyst of Chinese and Russian cyber operations and now chairs the Silverado Policy Accelerator.
 
Garrett M. Graff is an American journalist, historian, and author known for writing about politics, national security, and major U.S. crises. He has been editor-in-chief of Washingtonian, a former editor at Politico Magazine, and the author of several well-known books.

​Relational Spirituality: A Psychological-Theological Paradigm for Transformation.
Todd W. Hall & M. Elizabeth Lewis Hall.
IVP Academic. 2021.
​ISBN: 9780830851188.
 
Relational Spirituality is a psychological-theological model of Christian formation that argues people grow spiritually most deeply in the context of secure relationships, not just through private individual effort. The book combines theology, psychology, attachment theory, and interpersonal neuroscience to explain transformation in community. It presents relational spirituality as a corrective to overly individualistic or purely information-based views of sanctification; arguing that because humans are fundamentally relational, spiritual growth is shaped by God, self, and others in connected, lived relationships. The book draws together several major themes: Trinitarian theology, the image of God, relational knowledge, attachment patterns, and interpersonal neurobiology. It also emphasizes that spiritual communities can either hinder or foster transformation depending on how they embody trust, presence, and mutual care.
 
Todd W. Hall is a professor of psychology at Biola University’s Rosemead School of Psychology, a clinical psychologist, and a researcher focused on relational approaches to spiritual development, virtue, leadership, and flourishing. He is also affiliated with Harvard’s Human Flourishing Program and has written on spiritual formation and relational spirituality.
 
M. Elizabeth Lewis Hall is a professor of psychology at Biola University’s Rosemead School of Psychology and the author of more than 150 academic publications. Her work includes psychology, religion, meaning-making, suffering, and human flourishing.

Trauma and the Avoidant Client.
Robert T. Muller.
W.W. Norton & Co. 2010.
ISBN: 9780393705737.

​Trauma and the Avoidant Client is a book about working with traumatized clients who tend to avoid attachment, intimacy, and painful feelings, using attachment-based clinical strategies for healing. The book focuses on practical psychotherapy approaches for clients who minimize trauma, withdraw emotionally, or rely on strong self-reliance and deactivation of attachment needs. Its table of contents includes topics such as avoidant defences, activating the attachment system, intervention strategies, mourning, the therapeutic relationship, countertransference, and a case example. It is aimed at mental health practitioners and trauma workers, and it was recognized with the 2011 Written Media Award from the International Society for the Study of Trauma & Dissociation.
 
Robert T. Muller is a Canadian clinical psychologist and professor at York University in Toronto, known for his work on trauma, attachment, and psychotherapy. He trained at Harvard, taught at the University of Massachusetts, and has published widely on trauma treatment and interpersonal trauma. He also founded The Trauma & Mental Health Report, an online magazine on trauma and mental health.

In the Shadows: True Stories of High-Stakes Negotiations to Free Americans Captured Abroad.
Mickey Bergman & Ellis Henican. 
Hachette Book Group. 2024.
ISBN: 9781546004752
 
In the Shadows is a non-fiction account by negotiator Mickey Bergman (with Ellis Henican) about the hidden world of efforts to free Americans detained or held hostage abroad. The book traces several major cases, including those of Brittney Griner, Danny Fenster, Otto Warmbier, Trevor Reed, and Paul Whelan, showing how unofficial back-channel negotiators work with authoritarian leaders, warlords, and hostile governments to secure prisoners’ release when standard diplomacy stalls.  Bergman describes his mentorship under Bill Richardson, reveals the psychological and strategic tools used in talks, and highlights the moral ambiguity and emotional toll of dealing with ruthless regimes while bearing responsibility for desperate families and captive Americans whose lives hang in the balance.
 
Mickey Bergman is a conflict-resolution specialist and hostage negotiator who has worked extensively on securing the release of Americans detained or held hostage overseas. He has been closely associated with the late former New Mexico governor and U.S. ambassador Bill Richardson.

Ellis Henican is an American journalist, author, and commentator. He has written columns and reported for major U.S. news outlets, and he frequently collaborates as a co-author or ghostwriter on nonfiction books, including political memoirs and works on public policy and national security. 

Trauma, Dissociation and Multiplicity: Working on Identity and Selves.
Editor: Valerie Sinason. 
Routledge. 2012.
​ISBN: 9780415554251.
 
Trauma, Dissociation and Multiplicity is an edited collection by Valerie Sinason that offers primarily psychoanalytic perspectives on dissociation, especially dissociative identity disorder, with a strong clinical and survivor-informed emphasis. It brings together contributors from both Europe and North America, so you get a mix of British and international voices, many already prominent in the trauma/dissociation field.
 
The volume aims to deepen understanding of the concept of dissociation and the ongoing theoretical and clinical confusion around it; Dissociative Identity Disorder as one end of a broader dissociative spectrum, discussed from a psychoanalytic standpoint rather than a purely descriptive-diagnostic one; and the nature of “selves,” identity, and multiplicity, including how multiple self-states are formed and maintained in the aftermath of chronic trauma.
 
Valerie Sinason is a British poet, writer, child psychotherapist, and adult psychoanalyst renowned for her pioneering work in disability psychotherapy and trauma/dissociation studies. She began at the Tavistock Clinic in London, where from 1987 to 1999 she served as Consultant Child Psychotherapist and ran a workshop on intellectual disability for 20 years, developing psychoanalytic approaches for people with learning disabilities.
Sinason also consulted at the Anna Freud Centre, Portman Clinic (1994–1997), and St George’s Hospital Medical School (1994–2006), emphasizing emotional responses over cognitive limits in therapy. In 1992, she co-founded the Institute for Psychotherapy and Disability. She founded the Clinic for Dissociative Studies in 1998, specializing in dissociative identity disorder and severe trauma, integrating psychoanalysis with survivor perspectives.
Recognition and Output. Sinason received the ISSTD Lifetime Achievement Award (2016), Fellowship (2017), and Board election (2019).