If a part of your life seems to make no sense, yet you can t put the puzzle together because some of the pieces are missing, this book is for you. If you suspect that the treatment you received as a child has in some way impaired your judgment as an adult, if your current life seems to lack peace, this book is for you. This book is also for today s children with the hope that their parents will recognize any abusive childhood treatment in their own past and finally stop the intergenerational cycle of abuse. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Tens of thousands of children are removed from home each year due to some form of child maltreatment, usually physical neglect, physical abuse, or sexual abuse, although sometimes for emotional abuse as well. An additional significant number of children are victims of child maltreatment but remain in their home...read more

Written by the author of the highly acclaimed 'Climbing out of Depression and Building Self-Esteem', this book covers the subject of sexual and emotional abuse. Divided into five sections, this book is based on her own experiences and attempts to offer guidance and encouragement to the survivors.

Product Description: This book presents poems, stories and journal work spontaneously written by people, young and old, who have suffered serious abuse. The editors' explanations and commentaries suggest how health and social care workers can facilitate creative writing as a potential contribution to emotional healing in work with both individuals and small groups...read more

Product Description: The first fifteen years of your life, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, you have developed the skills to behave in a specific environment: the family system. And so, if in your everyday family life, you've developed the skills to be unlovable, unhappy, unsuccessful and unworthy, you were abused as a child, and your parents trained you to be depressed, to live in fear, shame or guilt, and perhaps to be self-destructive...read more

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Discusses the effects of substance abuse, neglect, sibling loss, sexual abuse, and emotional abuse on the family, and advises adults how to overcome their childhood traumas

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A chiropractor and therapist reveals how touch can aid in recovery from addictions, dysfunctional relationships, and physical, sexual, or emotional abuse

Creating Sanctuary makes some broadly challenging statements about human nature and social organization. Dr. Sandra Bloom interweaves the individual and the social, the personal and the political, with the story of how she and a group of friends and colleagues created a traditional psychiatric milieu based on social psychiatry principles. Bloom and her colleagues have come to believe that unresolved, multi-generational, often forgotten trauma leads to a compulsion to repeat that is a powerful force in individual and social history. Because of this unresolved legacy of trauma, all of our social systems are "trauma-organized," producing institutions which are unresponsive to and often directly counter to human needs. Creating Sanctuary presents the thesis that effective social reconstruction is only effective if we understand the biological, psychological, social, and moral legacy of trauma.

Product Description: Harvey Schwartz's territory is the severe end of the child sexual abuse continuum, where victims' experiences are so unthinkable and their adaptations so bizarre that the rest of us are tempted to pronounce them fictions-whereupon we become complicit by subverting the survivors' struggles to heal...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A psychological study by a Swiss psychoanalyst examines the upbringing of talented children by their often narcissistic and unwittingly hurtful parents

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A healing tool for adult women who were mistreated as children offers an affirming medium for mending old wounds

Product Description: It has been said that many survivors of child abuse that the best revenge is to survive. Perhaps so, but a much better outcome is to thrive in spite of the abuse- to live life victoriously! Including practical suggestions, this book focuses on the issues of healing and recovery, as well as the issues of child abuse...read more

Examines dissociative coping strategies resulting from childhood abuse, shows how these strategies can have negative consequences in adulthood, and provides new strategies for healing the past

The author of Recreating Your Self offers survival strategies for adults who were abused--verbally, physically, or sexually--as young children and need help managing those unresolved feelings.

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Advises adult child abuse victims on how to use visualization, affirmation, dreamwork, and recovery techniques to come to terms with their feelings of fear, anger, and shame

Gathers brief meditations designed to replace negative and painful thoughts with positive, life-affirming ones

Product Description: Hypnosis has not been fully appreciated in the treatment of trauma, largely due to it being implicated in the creation of false memories, which have previously led to false allegations of child abuse. This has led to a lot of misunderstandings about hypnosis...read more