Bloom, S. L. Creating Sanctuary: Toward the Evolution of Sane Societies. (1997). New York: Routledge.

This book describes the Sanctuary, an inpatient unit for the treatment of traumatized adults, and its underlying philosophy. The first two chapters focus on what traumatic experience does to the body, the mind, the relational network, and the ontology of the victim and those close to the victim. The third chapter presents arguments for the essentially social construction of human existence. The fourth chapter describes the experience of creating and maintaining a therapeutic milieu that is designed to address the needs of adults who were traumatized as children. The fifth and final chapter offers speculation about the potential for social reconnection.

Bloom, S. L. and Reichert, M. Bearing Witness: Trauma and Collective Responsibility. (1998). Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press.

In this book we intend to address this cycle of violence by discussing some of the biological, psychological, social, and even moral issues that determine whether a person will become a victim, perpetrator, or bystander to violent events and what happens to an individual when he or she is in one or all three of these roles. Throughout this book we hope we have conveyed one essential message: that it is a fundamental and absolute moral responsibility that we each find a way to bear witness to the pain and suffering that is all around us, and that starting from the position of this testimony we must join together to liberate the human body, mind, and soul from the rack of traumatic reenactment that is stretching our social body to the limit of endurance

Bloom, S. L., Ed. (2001) Violence: A Public Health Epidemic and a Public Health Approach. London: Karnac Press.

In addressing the issue of violence, our first purpose is to provide practical information that will help the reader to design specific intervention strategies aimed at preventing the escalation of violence in any community. But the study of violence has taught us that such approaches will be ineffective unless we have a coherent and meaningful framework within which to understand the continuum of violent perpetration….. Only a shift in human understanding can help us to be more effective in slowing the pace of the disease down through the generations, from person to person, from family to family, from nation to nation

Editors: Lorelei Atalie Vargas and Sandra L. Bloom (2007) Loss, Hurt and Hope: The Complex Issues of Bereavement and Trauma in Children Cambridge Scholars Press