The courage to heal : a guide for women survivors of child sexual abuse

Resource Information

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Label

The courage to heal : a guide for women survivors of child sexual abuse

Title remainder

a guide for women survivors of child sexual abuse

Statement of responsibility

Ellen Bass & Laura Davis

Creator

• Bass, Ellen

Contributor

• Davis, Laura, 1956-

Subject

• Abused women -- Psychology
• Adult child sexual abuse victims -- Counseling of
• Adult child sexual abuse victims -- Psychology
• Child sexual abuse
• Victims of sexual abuse
• Abused women -- Counseling of

Language

eng

Summary

The Courage to Heal is a comprehensive guide that offers hope and a map of the healing journey to every woman who was sexually abused as a child -- and to those who care about her. Although the effects of child sexual abuse are long-term and severe, healing is possible. Weaving together personal experience with professional knowledge, the authors provide clear explanations, practical suggestions, and support throughout the healing process. Readers will feel recognized and encouraged by hundreds of moving first-person stories drawn from interviews and the authors' extensive work with survivors, both nationally and internationally. This complete revised and updated 20th anniversary edition continues to provide the compassionate wisdom the book has been famous for, as well as many new features: contemporary research on trauma and the brain; an overview of powerful new healing tools such as imagery, meditation, and body-centered practices; additional stories that reflect an even greater diversity of survivor experiences; the reassuring accounts of survivors who have been healing for more than twenty years; the most comprehensive, up-to-date resource guide in the field; and insights from the authors' decades of experience. Cherished by survivors, and recommended by therapists and institutions everywhere, The Courage to Heal has often been called the bible of healing from child sexual abuse

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

616.85/8369

Index

index present

LC call number

• HQ72.U53
• RC569.5.A28

LC item number

• B37 2008
• B37 2008

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

NLM call number

WM 167

NLM item number

B317c 2008