A New Legacy for Incest Survivors

A New Legacy for Incest Survivors
Author: Lucie G. Spear
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2011-03-10
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1456884344

From the ages of nine to fourteen, Lucie Spear was sexually abused by her own father. Lucie shares her journey of recovery, clearly explaining the loss of self and family that results from an abuser breaking the most basic of trust between parent and child. She also manages to sympathetically convey the complex inter-family dynamics that emerge once incest is revealed. A New Legacy for Incest Survivors was written to be a moving and ultimately triumphant look into what it takes to survive incest and go on to build a life full of rich, loving relationships; while ensuring that Lucie’s own daughter and grand-daughters would live free from incest's shadow.

Healing the Incest Wound

Healing the Incest Wound
Author: Christine A. Courtois
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1988
Genre: Adult child sexual abuse victims
ISBN: 9780393313567

A comprehensive guide to the dynamics of incest and to therapy for survivors.

Coming Home to Passion

Coming Home to Passion
Author: Ruth Cohn
Publisher: Praeger
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-02-18
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0313392129

This book offers a detailed road map for overcoming sexual and relationship impasses originating from painful childhood experiences. Large numbers of adults with histories of childhood trauma and neglect suffer persistent relationship and sexual difficulties. Unfortunately, most have failed to receive adequate help with emerging from these deep and complex problems. Coming Home to Passion: Restoring Loving Sexuality in Couples with Histories of Childhood Trauma and Neglect explores the enduring impacts—physiological, psychological, and behavioral—of childhood trauma and neglect. Author Ruth Cohn, drawing on 25 years of experience working with trauma survivors and their partners and families, lays out a practical and actionable course for recovery in clear, accessible language. This book provides direction and hope to those with trauma backgrounds while also serving as a unique resource for professional readers. Integrating in-depth information on attachment and relationship, trauma and neglect, and sexuality, Cohn details a practical, hands-on treatment approach for revitalizing love, health, and passion.

Secret Survivors

Secret Survivors
Author: E. Sue Blume
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 364
Release: 1998-01-20
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

Focusing on the later manifestations of incest, this reference offers a diagnostic aftereffects checklist, suggestions for healthy, rather than neurotic, coping mechanisms, and therapeutic treatment strategies.

The Incest Diary

The Incest Diary
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2018-11
Genre: Adult child abuse victims
ISBN: 1408890429

Throughout her childhood and adolescence, the anonymous author of The Incest Diary was raped by her father. Beneath a veneer of normal family life, she grew up in and around this all-encompassing secret. Her sexual relationship with her father lasted, off and on, into her twenties. It formed her world, and it formed her deepest fears and desires. Even after she broke away, even as she grew into an independent and adventurous young woman, she continued to seek out new versions of the violence, submission and secrecy she had struggled to leave behind. In this graphic and harrowing memoir, the author revisits her early traumas and their aftermath - not from a clinical distance, but from deep within - to explore the ways in which her father's abuse shaped her, and still does. As a matter of psychic survival, she became both a sexual object and a detached observer, a dutiful daughter and the protector of a dirty secret. And then, years later, she made herself write it down. With lyric concision, in vignettes of almost unbearable intensity, this writer tells a story that is shocking but that will ring true to many other survivors of abuse. It has never been faced so directly on the page.

Trauma and the Therapist

Trauma and the Therapist
Author: Laurie A. Pearlman
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Total Pages: 451
Release: 1995
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780393701838

This book explores the role and experience of the therapist in the therapeutic relationship by examining countertransference (the therapist's response to the client) and vicarious traumatization (the therapist's response to the stories of abuse told by client after client). The authors address specific issues that arise in treatment of incest survivors.

Lesbian Couples

Lesbian Couples
Author: D. Merilee Clunis
Publisher: Seal Press
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2004-12-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0786741252

Written by two experienced lesbian therapists, Lesbian Couples covers a range of topics—commitment ceremonies and marriage, living arrangements, work, money, togetherness and separate identities, coming out to family and friends, resolving conflict and understanding each other—and uses a variety of helpful examples and problem-solving techniques, drawing from research done on lesbian couples over the past decade. The book pays special attention to differences of race, class, age and physical ability, and addresses the issues raised when one or both partners are recovering from alcohol, substance, or sexual abuse. The book also addresses differences that lesbians may encounter in their relationships regarding such issues as butch-femme, transgender identity, bisexuality, monogamy, and s/m. Thoroughly readable and extremely helpful, with an updated resource guide, Lesbian Couples is a book that every lesbian will want to own.

Writing the Survivor

Writing the Survivor
Author: Robin E. Field
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2020-07-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1942954840

Writing the Survivor: The Rape Novel in Late Twentieth-Century American Fiction identifies a new genre of American fiction, the rape novel, that recenters narratives of sexual violence on the survivors of violence and abuse, rather than the perpetrators. The rape novel arose during the women’s liberation movement as women writers collectively challenged the traditional erasure of female subjectivity and agency found in earlier representations of sexual violence in American fiction. The rape novel not only foregrounds survivors and their stories in a textual centering that affirms their dignity and self-worth, but also develops new narratological strategies for portraying violent, disturbing subject matter. In bringing together many key women’s texts of the last decades of the 20th century, the rape novel demonstrates the centrality of sexual assault to women’s fiction of this era. The rape novels of the 21st century continue the political activism inherent in the genre—educating readers, offering community to survivors, and encouraging social activism—as the stories of male survivors are increasingly told. A radical reconsideration of late twentieth-century American novels, Writing the Survivor underscores the importance of women’s activism upon the novel’s form and content and reveals the portrayal of rape as rape to be an interethnic imperative.

Surviving Child Sexual Abuse

Surviving Child Sexual Abuse
Author: Liz Hall
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2003-12-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135721726

Surviving Child Sexual Abuse" is a handbook for survivors and their helpers. It examines what sexual abuse entails for a child and why it happens. Personal and professional issues for helpers are addressed and the long term effects of sexual abuse are examined. The strengths of survivors are acknowledged together with the supportive alliances they have formed with partners, helpers and friends. The theme of disclosure is examined in depth and the main themes in therapeutic work with survivors are discussed and methods are described which can be used in such therapeutic work. This highly successful book ends with an evaluation of the issues involved in training helpers for working with survivors.; The book is aimed at therapists including social workers, counsellros in public organizations and private practice, clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses, health visitors, general practitioners, police and psychotherapists.

Communication and Disenfranchisement

Communication and Disenfranchisement
Author: Eileen Berlin Ray
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 508
Release: 2013-12-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1136689796

This volume and its companion case studies book deal with some of the people, groups, and classes who are living a disenfranchised existence in the United States. Whether through birth, life events, or unfortunate circumstances, they are denied full privileges, rights, and power within the existing societal structure. Centered around societal health problems as they relate to socioeconomic status, family, abuse, and health concerns, these volumes examine salient issues from several theoretical frameworks, including feminist theory and the social construction of reality. Communication and Disenfranchisement provides theory-based essays on topics such as the homeless, adult survivors of sexual assault, battered women, persons with disabilities, impoverished women, the indigent living in the inner city, persons with HIV/AIDS, the terminally ill, and the elderly. Case Studies in Communication and Disenfranchisement provides parallel case studies, applying the issues and concepts discussed in the essays. Used together, these books provide theoretically-based applications of social health issues within a communication framework. Traditionally, health communication research has emphasized the communication-physical health relationship. Inadvertently, this primary focus has restricted what information has been included under the domain of health communication. These books expand that domain by examining how the communication-disenfranchisement relationship is accomplished, managed, and overcome, and by recognizing the significance of the pragmatic and theoretic implications of this inquiry.