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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.
Childhood Trauma
Childhood Trauma
Please listen to us. Sexual abuse is far more devastating than anyone conceives. I can't even imagine who or what I'd be if it hadn't happened. It separated me from myself.
Now that you have met the women who took part in this study, I take up (at their request) an unhappy topic—their experience of sexual abuse. I asked them what messages they wanted me to convey to readers. Above all else, their responses suggested the four themes of pain, struggle, courage, and victory. Part II, and especially this chapter, carries their message of pain, encapsulated in the words of Inga above. In the pages that follow, you will read about child sexual abuse from the point of view of women who ...
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