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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.
Background
Background
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In the past two decades, more people of all ages have been working through the sexual traumas of childhood than ever before in the history of humankind. This book could not have been written 20 years ago. Its focus on amnesia would have been premature. Back then, mental health workers and researchers were only beginning to recognize and document the prevalence of sexual abuse and its position among the most serious forms of trauma. Now, they are far more knowledgeable. They have created a burgeoning literature of increasingly refined information about the prevalence and consequences ...
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