The Courage to Heal - Third Edition - Revised and Expanded: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse 
asked by learner on November 6, 2006 12:34 AM
The Courage to Heal is an inspiring, comprehensive guide that offers hope and encouragement to every woman who, was sexually abused as a child -- and those who care about her. Although the effects of child sexual abuse are long-term and severe, healing is possible. The authors weave personal experience with professional knowledge to show the reader how she can come to terms with her past while moving powerfully into the future. They provide clear explanations, practical suggestions, a map of the healing journey, and many moving first-person examples of the recovery process drawn from their interviews with hundreds of survivors.
Definitive in scope, The Courage to Heal speaks directly to the survivor in a warm and personal way:
TAKING STOCK -- outlines the effects of child sexual abuse and the ways women cope over time.THE HEALING PROCESS -- explores each stage from the decision to heal and remembering through breaking silence, knowing it wasn't your fault, nurturing the inner child, and grief and anger, to resolution and moving on.CHANGING PATTERNS -- offers in-depth guidance for shifting self-defeating patterns in specific areas of one's present life, including self-esteem, feelings, intimacy, sexuality, and dealing with families.SUPPORTERS OF SURVIVORS -- provides insight and strategies for partners of survivors, family members, and counselors.COURAGEOUS WOMEN -- profiles survivors who share the challenges and triumphs of their own healing journeys.HONORING THE TRUTH -- a substantial new Afterword that refutes the "false memory" argument and presents a thorough and enlightening response to the backlash.RESOURCE GUIDE -- fully updated for this edition -- informs readers about therapy, healing activities, recommended reading, support groups, self-help programs, and services and organizations.Reviews
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Some clients are at the very beginning stages of their healing.. and often do not feel comfortable moving any kind of step forward. This book helps them find that courage. For sexually abused survivors, one of the best things they can do for themselves is find a supportive group -- but often, they cannot muster the courage to find one, much less begin one. This book connects them to other survivors, albeit in spirit only. It is an extremely cathartic and empowering book.
reviewed by shagdag on November 19, 2006 12:55 AM
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This book has changed my life and has help me over come so many problems I didn't even know existed. Amust read for someone needing to heal!
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reviewed by jdog on November 23, 2006 2:44 AM
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Please, please, please, don't go near this book. It does not have any valid answers for you but will only create perpetual problems with your self and those around you. If you have problems, seek out professional help (not those with Freudian principles or suppression theories). This book can only cause more harm than good.
Sorry, but save your money.
Sorry, but save your money.
reviewed by selena on November 26, 2006 7:56 PM
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If anyone has ever done any research into the fields of congnitive psychology or memory, you'll realize how incredibly awful this book is.
"If you are unable to remember any specific instances [of abuse] like the ones mentioned above but still have a feeling that something abusive happened to you, it probably did." Page 21. How awful is that? Completely misleading as well. Any memory such as this can be implanted into someone's mind, when they had NO actual abuse in their lives.
Furthermore, "If you think you were abused and your life shows the symptoms, then you were." Page 22. Need I say more? This is utter trash. Completely unbased by scientific findings or even common sense.
Avoid this book at all costs if you are a serious victim of child abuse. Realize that it is very easy, as humans, to recall past instances of violence, trauma, and abuse, when they actually NEVER happened.
It's sad and morally disturbing to see a book such as this in print. It's even more disturbing that people are accepting this book as a true "self-help" book. I encourage ANYONE thinking about buying this to reconsider and do a lot more research into their past before conjuring up false recall of past memories.
"If you are unable to remember any specific instances [of abuse] like the ones mentioned above but still have a feeling that something abusive happened to you, it probably did." Page 21. How awful is that? Completely misleading as well. Any memory such as this can be implanted into someone's mind, when they had NO actual abuse in their lives.
Furthermore, "If you think you were abused and your life shows the symptoms, then you were." Page 22. Need I say more? This is utter trash. Completely unbased by scientific findings or even common sense.
Avoid this book at all costs if you are a serious victim of child abuse. Realize that it is very easy, as humans, to recall past instances of violence, trauma, and abuse, when they actually NEVER happened.
It's sad and morally disturbing to see a book such as this in print. It's even more disturbing that people are accepting this book as a true "self-help" book. I encourage ANYONE thinking about buying this to reconsider and do a lot more research into their past before conjuring up false recall of past memories.
reviewed by sandi on November 29, 2006 4:18 PM