The Courage To Heal : A Guide For Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse - Softcover

Ellen Bass; Laura Davis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060969318 ISBN 13: 9780060969318

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, 1992

Synopsis

The best-selling guide to coping with childhood sexual abuse--now expanded to include a revised Resource Guide with six hundred entries--weaves personal experience with professional knowledge to guide adult survivors of abuse. $25,000 ad/promo.

About this title

About the Author:

A workshop facilitator for survivors, their partners, and counselors, Ellen Bass is co-editor of I Never Told Anyone and the author of several volumes of poetry. She lives in Santa Cruz, California.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

If you don't feel respected, valued, or understood, or if your experience is being minimized or distorted, that's a sign that you're in bad therapy, or at least that there's a bad fit between you and the counselor. If you feel there is something wrong in the therapy relationship, or if you get upset or angry with your counselor, talk about it in your session. Afterward, you should feel you've been heard and understood. However, if your counselor discounts your feelings or responds defensively, then you're not getting the respect you need. Look elsewhere.

If you feel your therapist is pressuring you to say you were abused, you're seeing the wrong therapist. No one else can tell you whether or not you were abused.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0060969318
• ISBN 13: 9780060969318
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 528