A Man's Recovery from Traumatic Childhood Abuse

A Man's Recovery from Traumatic Childhood Abuse
Author: Robert Blackburn Knight
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2002
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780789010643

Robert Blackburn Knight discusses how he overcame the trauma of childhood sexual abuse, describing the psychological and physical impact the abuse had on him and the steps he took to come to terms with it.

A Man's Recovery from Traumatic Childhood Abuse

A Man's Recovery from Traumatic Childhood Abuse
Author: Robert Blackburn Knight
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 10
Release: 2002
Genre: Adult child abuse victims
ISBN: 9780789010650

Robert Blackburn Knight discusses how he overcame the trauma of childhood sexual abuse, describing the psychological and physical impact the abuse had on him and the steps he took to come to terms with it.

A Man's Recovery from Traumatic Childhood Abuse

A Man's Recovery from Traumatic Childhood Abuse
Author: Robert Blackburn Knight
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2014-02-25
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1317708806

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Wounded Boys Heroic Men

Wounded Boys Heroic Men
Author: Daniel Jay Sonkin
Publisher: Adams Media
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1998-06-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9781580620109

Offers adult male victims of child abuse a procedure for facilitating the recovery process, and suggests ways to break the cycle of violence.

Not Quite Healed

Not Quite Healed
Author: Cecil Murphey
Publisher: Kregel Publications
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2013
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0825442702

How are sexual abuse survivors to overcome the challenges they are sure to face? Finding strength in community with other survivors is one key to recovery. In Not Quite Healed, two survivors join forces to share insight and encouragement on the issues that challenge them most. After a candid discussion about each issue, the authors provide a self-affirming statement that men can study, memorize, and recite on their darkest days.

The Courage to Heal

The Courage to Heal
Author: Ellen Bass
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2002
Genre: Adult child abuse victims
ISBN: 0091884209

Based on the experiences of hundreds of child abuse survivors, The Courage to Heal profiles victims who share the challenges and triumphs of their personal healing processes. Inspiring and comprehensive, it offers mental, emotional and physical support to all people who are in the process of rebuilding their lives. The Courage to Heal offers hope, encouragement and practical advice to every woman who was sexually abused as a child and answers some vital questions, including: -How do I know if I was sexually abused? -Where does the decision to heal start? -How can I break the silence and who will listen? -How can I re-build my self-esteem, intimacy and capacity to love? -What therapy, support groups, self-help programmes or organisations are available?

Gay Men and Childhood Sexual Trauma

Gay Men and Childhood Sexual Trauma
Author: James Cassese
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2016-01-20
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1317992946

Learn powerful techniques for healing the scars of early sexual abuse in gay men! The first book of its kind, Gay Men and Childhood Sexual Trauma: Integrating the Shattered Self addresses the specific therapeutic needs of gay men in recovery. All too often, gay men hide their childhood memories of being sexually victimized, because of fear, shame, and the stigma of stereotypes which equate homosexuality with child abuse. Some gay men may view these histories as “rites of passage” and dismiss other perspectives as betrayals of their community or inadvertant support for the anti-gay agenda of the religious right. Certain therapists and so-called support groups ridicule them as hysterics with false memories. Groups like the North American Man-Boy Love Association or the Rene Guyon Society dismiss the source of their anguish as wishful thinking or a healthy, consensual intergenerational romance. Finally here is a book that addresses the unique emotional and psychological needs of gay male survivors of sexual abuse. Gay Men and Childhood Sexual Trauma offers new hope by separating the crime of pedophilia from the consensual intimacy of an adult male same-sex relationship. It provides specific guidance for therapists working with gay men either in individual or group therapy settings, and offers practical treatment suggestions as well as moving insights into the painful conflicts gay men may have in accepting their own sexuality and revealing their status as child survivor of an adult sexual predator. Gay Men and Childhood Sexual Trauma discusses practical ways to help the survivor heal, including: adopting eye movement desensitization and reprocessing techniques to treat traumatized gay men helping gay men to break the old arousal patterns associated with their abusers handling survivors’formidable issues of trust, addictions, depression, and low self-esteem leading survivor groups of mixed sexual orientation discerning the special meaning of HIV to traumatized gay men respecting cross-cultural differences in treating the gay male sexual trauma survivor finding new directions for research This powerful volume offers sufficient technical detail to be useful for the therapist working with gay men, yet it is written with enough clarity and compassion to be used as bibliotherapy for men just coming out as gay, as survivor, or as both. Gay Men and Childhood Sexual Trauma is an essential resource for mental health professionals, as well as for gay men who have themselves survived sexual abuse or who love someone who did.

Naming Our Abuse

Naming Our Abuse
Author: Andrew Schmutzer
Publisher: Kregel Publications
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2016
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0825444004

A stunningly vulnerable look at the horrific realities of sexual abuse and how to overcome them Male sexual abuse is increasingly in the news, from scandals in the Catholic Church to exploitations at Penn State. Yet books and programs about healing are still overwhelmingly oriented toward the female survivor of abuse. As men who experienced childhood abuse, the authors of this book are uniquely qualified to address the healing process of male survivors. Using the metaphor of a car accident, Naming Our Abuse leads the survivor from the Wreck to the Accident Report to Rehabilitation to Driving Again. This four-step model illustrates that healing is a process to be nurtured rather than something that can be healed in a single telling. Following the authors' examples, readers are invited to find solidarity with other male survivors and develop an understanding of their own wounding through journaling exercises. “Rarely has a book about a subject so difficult and taboo left me feeling so encouraged and hopeful. Three different stories of deep personal pain, woven together to tell a story not only of survival but of fullness of life we can all hope for.” —Steve LePore, Founder and Executive Director, 1in6

Healing Sexually Betrayed Men and Boys

Healing Sexually Betrayed Men and Boys
Author: Richard B. Gartner
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2017-08-09
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317375513

Healing Sexually Betrayed Men and Boys: Treatment for Sexual Abuse, Assault, and Trauma is the new authoritative source for treatment of sexually victimized men and boys. Male victims and survivors of sexual trauma lived in shadow until the turn of the 21st century, when scandal after scandal about the sexual abuse of boys and men shed light on their suffering. These men and boys require different treatment roadmaps than their female counterparts. Yet there is little in the professional literature to help a clinician work with sexually traumatized boys and men. Richard B. Gartner is a seasoned psychologist/psychoanalyst who has worked therapeutically with sexually abused men for over three decades. He is a clinician, advocate, teacher, lecturer, and nationally and internationally recognized expert on the subject. Dr. Gartner’s classic book, Betrayed as Boys: Psychodynamic Treatment of Sexually Abused Men, is one of the few written to guide clinicians. Now, nearly two decades after writing that groundbreaking volume, he follows up on his earlier work. Healing Sexually Abused Men and Boys, together with its companion volume, Understanding the Sexual Betrayal of Boys and Men, is a thorough, comprehensive guide to learning about and healing male victims and survivors. Dr. Gartner has invited a group of experts to write about specific problems faced by these boys and men. Specialists from the psychoanalytic, psychodynamic, trauma, and legal worlds fill in the details about a wide range of interconnected subjects related to the complex reverberations of male sexual trauma. Healing Sexually Betrayed Men and Boys covers such diverse topics as: therapy with young sexually traumatized boys; the aftermath for men who were raped as adults ; covert seduction of boys and its aftereffects; treatment for substance addictions and sexual compulsions; couples work with male survivors and their partners or spouses; bodywork with male survivors; treatment for male veterans who suffered sexual trauma in the military; profiling sexual predators and working with survivors who have also been sexual predators. This book is a valuable resource for clinicians at every level of training. With strategies for how survivors can build support networks and descriptions of clinical, familial, and community-based treatments, Healing Sexually Betrayed Men and Boys is essential reading for clinicians of all theoretical persuasions who work with male sexual abuse survivors. Filling in gaps in the relatively scant literature on the subject, it will also help sexually abused or assaulted men themselves understand what is available to them.

Broken Boys/mending Men

Broken Boys/mending Men
Author: Stephen D. Grubman-Black
Publisher:
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2002-09-01
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781930665620

As many as one in six boys are the victims of sexual abuse. That fact is often met with disbelief and denial. This book is written for victims, as well as educators and others who wish to know more about the recognition and results of childhood child abuse.