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TRAUMA AND RECOVERY
..Title: Lucky *read more/buy*
..Author: Alice Sebold
..Pages: 272 (paperback)
..Sales Ranking: 198
..Summary: "Enormously visceral, emotionally gripping, and imbued with the belief that justice is possible even after the most horrific of crimes, Alice Sebold's compelling memoir of her rape at the age of eighteen is a story that takes hold of you and won't let go. Sebold fulfills a promise that she made to herself in the very tunnel where she was raped: someday she would write a book about her experience. With Lucky she delivers on that promise with mordant wit and an eye for life's absurdities, as she describes what she was like both as a young girl before the rape and how that rape changed but did not sink the woman she later became. It is Alice's indomitable spirit that we come to know in these pages. The same young woman who sets her sights on becoming an Ethel Merman-style diva one day (despite her braces, bad complexion, and extra weight) encounters what is still thought of today as the crime from which no woman can ever really recover. In an account that is at once heartrending and hilarious, we see Alice's spirit prevail as she struggles to have a normal college experience in the aftermath of this harrowing, life-changing event."
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..Title: Treating the Trauma of Rape: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for PTSD *read more/buy*
..Author: Edna B. Foa, Barbara Olasov Rothbaum
..Pages: 286 (paperback)
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..Summary: "...step-by-step guidelines for assessing and treating sexual assault survivors suffering from PTSD. From leading authorities in the field, the book provides a clear review of the treatment literature and guides the clinician in designing individualized cognitive-behavioral treatment programs for traumatized women. Complete instructions are given for sensitivity gathering needed information and delivering effective time-limited interventions. Enhancing the manual's utility are numerous case examples illustrating how to implement core cognitive-behavioral techniques and deal with common problems and complications in treatment."
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..Title: A Child Called 'It': One Child's Courage to Survive *read more/buy*
..Author: Dave Pelzer
..Pages: 169 (paperback)
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..Summary: "As a child Dave Pelzer was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother, a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games that left one of her sons nearly dead. She no longer considered him a son, but a slave; no longer a boy, but an 'it'. His bed was an old army cot in the basement, his clothes were torn and smelly, and, when he was allowed the luxury of food it was scraps from the dogs' bowl. The outside world knew nothing of the nightmare played out behind closed doors. Dave dreamed of finding a family to love him and call him their son. It took years of struggle, deprivation and despair to find his dream and make something of himself in the world. A Child Called 'It' covers the early years of his life and is an affecting and inspirational memoir of one child's determination to survive."
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..Title: The Lost Boy *read more/buy*
..Author: Dave Pelzer
..Pages: 340 (paperback)
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..Summary: "As a child, Dave Pelzer never had a real home. Rescued from an alcoholic, abusive mother, his only possessions were his old torn clothes he carried in a paper bag; the only world he knew was one of isolation and fear. In The Lost Boy Dave Pelzer relives his life as a foster child, in and out of five different homes. There were those who felt that all foster kids were trouble--unworthy of love--and resented his presence, forcing him to suffer yet more shame. But through it all Dave never stopped hoping and searching for the love of a real family."
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..Title: A Man Named Dave: A Story of Triumph and Forgiveness *read more/buy*
..Author: Dave Pelzer
..Pages: 426 (paperback)
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..Summary: "As a child, Dave Pelzer was horrifically abused by his mother, who considered him to be an 'it', not a child. But he survived and lived to tell his courageous story. Hauted by memories of his years bruised and cowering in his mother's basement, his life remained a struggle--but he was determined to make something of himself. Dav'es dramatic reunion with his dying father and a shocking confrontation with his mother led to his ultimate calling: mentor to others struggling with personal hardships. From a difficult marriage to the birth of his son and an enduring friendship, Dave was finally able to break free from his past, to trust, to love and to live."
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..Title: Help Yourself: How you can find hope, courage and happiness *read more/buy*
..Author: Dave Pelzer
..Pages: 218 (paperback)
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..Summary: "Dave Pelzer willed himself to overcome the worst life had to offer (his case of child abuse was one of the worst recorded cases in US history) and became the best he could be. Help Yourself weaves in stopries from Pelzer's own experiences with the principles he as discovered on how to survive difficulty and embrace challenges as an opportunity for growth. This inspiring conclusion to Dave Pelzer's multi-million bestselling autobiography takes Dave's story up tot he present and show us the way forward, for the first time offering readers the invaluable life lessons Dave learned along the way."
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..Title: Becomming Anna: The Autobiography of a Sixteen-Year-Old *read more/buy*
..Author: Anna J. Michener
..Pages: 256 (paperback)
..Sales Ranking: 36,219
..Summary: "Becomming Anna is the poignant memoir of the first sixteen years in the life of Anna Michener, a young woman who fought a painful battle against her abusive family. Anna suffered physical and emotional damage at the hands of the adults who were supposed to love and protect her. Committed to various mental institutions by her family, at sixteen Anna was finally able to escape her chaotic home life and enter a foster home. As an effort toward recovery and self-affirmation as well as a powerful plea on behalf of other abused children, Anna wrote this memoir while the experience was fresh and the emotions were still raw and unhealed. Her story is a powerful tale of survival."
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..Title: Telling: A Memoir of Rape and Recovery *read more/buy*
..Author: Patricia Weaver Francisco
..Pages: 240 (paperback)
..Sales Ranking: 141,449
..Summary: "She invites the reader into her life and into the questions raised by a crime with no obvious solutions or easy answers. We see the dimensions of a human struggle often kept hidden from view. While there are an estimated twelve million rape survivors in the United States, rape is still unspeakable, left out of our personal and cultural conversation. In Telling, Francisco has found a language for the secret grief carried by men and women who have survived rape."
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..Title: Too Scared to Cry: Psychic Trauma in Childhood *read more/buy*
..Author: Lenore Terr
..Pages: 372 (paperback)
..Sales Ranking: 20,444
..Summary: "...examines the many ways that trauma has changed not only the children she's treated, but all of us. She demonstrates that traumatized children can be helped, showing that there is hope for the innocent victims of our frightening world."
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..Title: A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion *read more/buy*
..Author: Randy Thornhill, Craig T. Palmer
..Pages: 272 (paperback)
..Sales Ranking: 116,152
..Summary: "The book includes a useful summary of evolutionary theory and a comparison of evolutionary biology's and social science's explanations of human behavior. The authors argue for the greater explanatory power and practical usefulness of evolutionary biology. The book is sure to stir up discussion both on the specific topic of rape and on the larger issues of how we understand and influence human behavior."
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..Title: The Rape Poems *read more/buy*
..Author: Frances Driscoll
..Pages: 80 (paperback)
..Sales Ranking: 58,927
..Summary: "These are stunning poems, in every sense of the word. Tracing the circuitous and torturous paths of memory, Frances Driscoll looks back on, and into rape. Her triumph is that she refuses to trivialize through a mode of confessionalism. Instead, these are poems that are lush with a common, familiar, evocative language that cuts through the surface detritus of our lives, the 'pastel drugs' of the national wire .... These are poems of great courage"
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..Title: After Silence: Rape and My Journey Back *read more/buy*
..Author: Nancy Venable Raine
..Pages: 288 (paperback)
..Sales Ranking: 80,313
..Summary: "On October 11, 1992, the seventh anniversary of her rap, eRaine determined that she would write about her assault and recovery. Six years of reflection and wide-ranging research served this talented writer well, for her account, studded with references to everything from Greek myths to government statistics, is fascinating and surprisingly readable. Raine describes the rape itself with remarkable objectivity. Then she describes the many small steps that she, like so many other rape victims, took to cope with the shame and ruptured faith that were the cruel legacy of her attack. "
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..Title: Recovering From Rape *read more/buy*
..Author: Linda E. Ledray
..Pages: 282 (paperback)
..Sales Ranking: 49,952
..Summary: "This volume is intended as a handbook for both rape victims and the 'significant others' in their lives. Major areas discussed includethe myths surrounding rape and why they continue; police, medical personnel, security precautions, and rape crisis centers; post-rape trauma; recovery; child sexual assault; the legal system; and the rapist. . . . Included is a list of rape crisis centers in the United States"
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..Title: Rape, Incest, Battery *read more/buy*
..Author: Miriam Kalman Harris (editor)
..Pages: 321 (paperback)
..Sales Ranking: 357,800
..Summary:
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..Title: One Red Eye *read more/buy*
..Author: Kirsten Dierking
..Pages: 72 (paperback)
..Sales Ranking: 270,630
..Summary: "The first full-length work of its kind, One Red Eye is an intimate story of violence and survival, rape and re-birth, told in verse. In concise, candid and understated poems, Dierking shares the brutal truth of her own rape experience, while at the same time, demonstrating the possibility of spiritual recovery from sexual assault."
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..Title: The Emotionally Abused Woman: Overcoming Destructive Paterns and Reclaiming Yourself *read more/buy*
..Author: Beverly Engel
..Pages: 244 (paperback)
..Sales Ranking: 27,078
..Summary: "If you feel unfairly criticized, controlled by others, or are afraid of being lonely, you could be suffering from emotional abuse. Now there is help in this compassionate sourcebook. Bevery Engel, a marriage, family, and child therapist, guides you through a step-by-step recovery process to help you heal the damage done in the past."
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..Title: The Right to Innocence: Healing the Trauma of Childhood Sexual Abuse *read more/buy*
..Author: Beverly Engel
..Pages: 272 (paperback)
..Sales Ranking: 25,302
..Summary: "This is a recovery guide, a seven-step program that enables victims to heal the damage such experiences inflict."
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..Title: Families in Recovery: Working Together to Heal the Damage of Childhood Sexual Abuse *read more/buy*
..Author: Beverly Engel
..Pages: 240 (paperback)
..Sales Ranking: 241,552
..Summary: "Helps victimized families heal together and overcome the denial, fear of truth, pride, guilt, and anger that is part of childhood sexual abuse."
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..Title: Father-Daughter Incest (with a New Afterword) *read more/buy*
..Author: Judith Lewis Herman, Lisa Hirschman
..Pages: 320 (paperback)
..Sales Ranking: 68,371
..Summary: "Reviewing the extensive research literature that demonstrates the validity of incest survivors' sometimes repressed and recovered memories, [Herman] convincingly challenges the rhetoric and methods of the backlash movement against incest survivors, and the concerted attempt to deny the events they find the courage to describe."
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..Title: Nobody's Children: Abuse and Neglect, Foster Drift, and the Adoption Alternative *read more/buy*
..Author: Elizabeth Bartholet
..Pages: 304 (paperback)
..Sales Ranking: 75,995
..Summary: "A challenging and powerful examination of the failure of current policies to protect children from continued abuse and neglect and a compelling argument against temporary fostering¡Xand other band-aid approaches¡Xwhich serve policymaker's fantasies about family unity, while destroying the lives of children."
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..Title: Child Sexual Abuse and False Memory Syndrome *read more/buy*
..Author: Robert A Baker
..Pages: 479 (hardcover)
..Sales Ranking: 332,699
..Summary: "This collection of essays written by experts on child sexual abuse examines the controversies, problems, research, & ethical concerns surrounding false memory syndrome"
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..Title: Genie *read more/buy*
..Author: Russ Rymer
..Pages: 233 (paperback)
..Sales Ranking: 66,491
..Summary: "This is an account of the life of a 'girl known by the pseudonym Genie, who spent the first 13 years of her life locked in a bedroom alone. . . . When Genie first showed up at a Los Angeles County welfare office in the fall of1970, accompanied by her nearly blind and completely helpless mother, the girl was practically mute. . . . Raised in an almost silent setting, . . . Genie had reached adolescence without having learned to talk. . . . Could Genie, at an age when so many of the brain's circuits are thought to be etched for life,take on the task of a 2-year-old and begin learning a mother tongue?'"
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..Title: Memory Quest: Trauma and the Search for Personal History *read more/buy*
..Author: Elizabeth A. Waites
..Pages: 308 (hardcover)
..Sales Ranking: 572,933
..Summary: "Covers the integrative function of memory, selective processes in memory, representation & the self, etc."
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..Title: Psychological Trauma and the Adult Survivor *read more/buy*
..Author: I. Lisa McCann, Laurie Ann Pearlman
..Pages: 360 (hardcover)
..Sales Ranking:
..Summary: "Theories of trauma & victimization; clinical assessment & intervention; handling resistance. Incl. case studies."
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..Title: Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence-From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror *read more/buy*
..Author: Judith Lewis Herman
..Pages: 290 (paperback)
..Sales Ranking: 4,364
..Summary: "Are there parallels between private terrors like rape and public traumas such as terrorism? This important work of synthesis offers a new framework for understanding and healing. 'Every politically committed person of the 1990s will learn from it'"
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..Title: Trust after Trauma: A Guide to Relationships for Survivors and Those Who Love Them *read more/buy*
..Author: Aprodite Matsakis
..Pages: 344 (paperback)
..Sales Ranking: 38,038
..Summary: "Written for trauma survivors who have completed therapy or who are working toward recovery, this compassionate & honest resource will also benefit loved ones of those coming to terms with relationships after trauma."
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..Title: Stalking the Soul *read more/buy*
..Author: Marie-France Hirigoyen
..Pages: 224 (paperback)
..Sales Ranking: 70,087
..Summary: "Hirigoyen's book, a best seller in France, paints a chilling portrait of emotional abuse and offers practical advice on combatting it. Ultimately, however, it is a disjointed cross between a self-help book and a semischolarly resource. Abusers, this psychiatrist and family therapist believes, are predators who appropriate another person's life by first paralyzing him or her to prevent counterattack..."
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