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The Courage to Heal - Third Edition - Revised and Expanded: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.85822390651
EAN: 9780060950668
Edition: 3 Rev Upd
ISBN: 0060950668
Label: Collins Living
Manufacturer: Collins Living
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 608
Publication Date: June 29, 1994
Publisher: Collins Living
Release Date: May 19, 1994
Studio: Collins Living
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Editorial Review:
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.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - BAD SCIENCE
I think this book has caused a lot of needless pain. I don't address these ideas to those who have always had memories of their abuse, however:
Any book that encourages people to believe they were abused with absolutely no concrete evidence is DESTRUCTIVE. Any book that encourages people to get as angry as they possibly can, as sad as they possibly can, and let their abuse define them and take their lives over is destructive. This book has been successful because people feel empty ... Read More
Rating:  - The Courage to say "This book doesn't work!"; the courage to get negative ratings for my review
I purchased this book to "heal" from sexual abuse at the hands of a boyfriend during my high school days. I've since realized that "healing" is a broadly-used term for a trendy concept. The authors, Bass and Davis, never really define healing. Well, maybe they don't because they aren't psychologists, psychiatrist, neurologists, or pastoral counselors. They really don't know what to say!
Yes, this book includes A LOT of vulgarity. I do not believe that we need to be so vulgar when we're ... Read More
Rating:  - Bashing
I read so many reviews on here that say that this book is filth and a horrible buy and that whomever is interested should seek professional help and advice. I am currently seeing a licensed therapist and conferred with her over whether or not this would help and she supported it 100%. Yes admittedly there is such a thing as 'bad therapy' where they foster and encourage mistaken beliefs of abuse but to throw ALL accounts of abuse into that category is nonsense and absolutely ridculous. The ppl that write ... Read More
Rating: - help in healing
this book is a great resource for survivors of sexual abuse. a perfect accompaniment is The Courage to Heal Workbook: A Guide for Women and Men Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse. the books have an appropriate level of overlap, but each is enough different from the other to make both very helpful and informative. they can be read in succession or simultaneously because they build on each other either way. the book breaks the healing process down into more manageable parts and begins at the beginning, which ... Read More
Rating: - Potentially very harmful
People who have been abused and remember their abuse and have some evidence other than their own imagination can do much better than this book. They deserve our support as they move forward. The danger of this book is the potential for susceptible people to think that things that are not so good in their lives are the result of sexual abuse even though they don't remember it. They may "work" to remember and the pain and suffering of the person who is "remembering" and the people they accuse is like an ... Read More
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