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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.
A Study of Sexual Abuse Survivors
A Study of Sexual Abuse Survivors
Mine was the last home where one might suspect incest. My world shifted off its axis when I remembered, and I had no place to stand to put it right again.
Amy had grown up in a family that was “privileged in every way.” Or so she had told herself. She was 43 when I first interviewed her and had remembered incest a year earlier. Her feelings of desperation exploded in the words quoted above. In the past, she had always found life difficult, and she had faulted herself for not coping better. (Other troubled people came from troubled homes, she thought, so their inadequacies were more understandable than hers.) Gradually, over time, Amy ...
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