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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.
Flashbacks and the Crisis of Recall
Flashbacks and the Crisis of Recall
With flashbacks, I have the feeling of actually being back there in body, mind, and soul. It seems like the abuse is happening all over again.
The chapters in Part II and Part III focused on the experience of childhood sexual abuse and the personal impact of recognizing its occurrence in one's own life. Now, I examine flashbacks, a major means by which survivors learned about and better understood their past.
The material in this chapter is closely related to the section of Chapter 6 on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). PTSD is a cyclical condition. Its alternative symptoms of numbing versus reexperiencing and arousal are like a coin that can expose two different sides. This ...
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