Secret Trauma

Type

Book

Authors

Diana E.h. Russell

ISBN 10

0465075959

ISBN 13

9780465075959

Tags

Reference, Marriage and Family, Psychology, Abuse, Sexual Violence, Advocacy, Healing, Childhood

Description

The Secret Trauma remains the definitive argument for the overwhelming prevalence of incestuous abuse. Based on findings about San Francisco, the book makes a persuasive case for an epidemic of abuse on a national scale. In her nuanced and sophisticated analysis, Russell carefully explores the complex variables of incestuous abuse: the changing incidence of abuse over time, the severity of th abuse, the victim’s age, factors of class, race, and ethnicity, and long term effects on victims.In a new introduction to the revised edition, Russell takes on the most important issue to arise in the field since the book was originally published in 1986: the serious backlash that followed the outpouring of reports by victims/survivors, and the controversy over false accusations and “false memories.” - from Amzon

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