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Based on a 12-year study with 60 survivors of child sexual abuse, Catherine Cameron sets out to understand their early trauma and its impact over subsequent years and to monitor their progress toward recovery. The difficult but rewarding process of their recovery unfolded over time, along with increasing societal awareness of the problem. In 1998 a final survey provided the epilogue for their story. Cameron grounds their personal stories by citing parallels to the larger field of national and international trauma. The result is a compelling and deeply human story of trauma and triumph.
Moving beyond Trauma
One of my former students, aware of my research, told me about her grandmother who, at age 93, had been living in a nursing home since she broke her hip a year earlier. Prior to that, she had been looking after herself in her own home. Her three marriages had ended in divorce (rare events at the time). She had kept herself extremely busy all her life, so her confinement now was frustrating. With her usual ways of coping taken away, the old woman began to experience fragments of a lost memory. Deeply troubled, she shared her recollections with her middle-aged daughter (my student's mother), until the story emerged of her rape at age 5. Over and over, she repeated ...
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