The Sexual Healing Journey

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Ellen Bass and Laura Davis

First published in 1988, the groundbreaking The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse has been completely revised, updated, and expanded for its 20th Anniversary edition. Considered "a classic" and "the bible of healing from child sexual abuse," this inspiring, comprehensive and compassionate guide provides a map of support of the healing journey and a lifeline for millions. Weaving together personal experience with professional knowledge, the authors provide clear explanations, practical suggestions, strategies, and support throughout the survival healing process -- as well as help, hope and reassurance for families, friends, and caregivers. Readers will feel recognized and encouraged by hundreds of moving first-person accounts drawn from interviews and the author's extensive work with survivors, both nationally and internationally. Available in translations, as well as in an enhanced audio format, its life-saving messages resonate across cultural, leaf

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Neil Weiner, Sharon E. Robinson Kurpius

Using a holistic approach, this new guidebook is geared toward mental health professionals working with women who have been victims of sexual abuse, and the survivors themselves. It provides background necessary for understanding child abuse, and presents a four-stage theoretical model for therapeutic intervention. Information is given that will enable the therapist to accurately diagnose the occurrence of childhood sexual abuse and conceptualize the effects of family, stage of development, and spirituality on the victim. Ego splitting is examined in detail. Also included are comprehensive case studies on the topic. In addition, this book serves as a bridge between the popular and professional literature on treatment of sexual abuse survivors. By using fairy tales and mainstream literature - including Peter Pan, The Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, The Velveteen Rabbit, and current pop works such as Stephen King's It - the authors show how numerous metaphors for abuse are presented in our everyday life. Woven throughout the volume is a historical and sociocultural perspective of the treatment of women and children - and how society has ignored such abuse. Coupled with the four-step process, this supplies the practitioner with a comprehensive overview, numerous invaluable treatment techniques, and an opportunity to gain an empathic understanding of the victim's life and experiences. Essential reading for professionals and students of counseling, psychology, social work, and other helping professions, the format also makes it highly accessible to lay-persons - both clients and other concerned individuals.

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James A. Chu

"In this new edition of Rebuilding Shattered Lives, Dr. Chu distills the wisdom he has gained from many years spent building and directing an extraordinary therapeutic community in a major teaching hospital. Both beginners and experienced clinicians will benefit from this book's unfailing clarity, balance, and pragmatism. An invaluable resource."―Judith L. Herman, MD, Director of Training for the Victims of Violence Program, Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA "The need for this work is immense, as is the reward. Thank you, Dr. Chu, for continuing to share your sustaining insight and wisdom in this updated edition."― Christine A. Courtois, founder and principal, Christine A. Courtois PhD & Associates, PLC, Washington, DC; author of Healing the Incest Wound: Adult Survivors in Therapy and Recollections of Sexual Abuse

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Sandra L. Bloom

Creating Sanctuary is a description of a hospital-based program to treat adults who had been abused as children and the revolutionary knowledge about trauma and adversity that the program was based upon. This book focuses on the biological, psychological, and social aspects of trauma. Fifteen years later, Dr. Sandra Bloom has updated this classic work to include the groundbreaking Adverse Childhood Experiences Study that came out in 1998, information about Epigenetics, and new material about what we know about the brain and violence. This book is for courses in counseling, social work, and clinical psychology on mental health, trauma, and trauma theory.