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Summary: A voice for the pain...
Review: "I Never Told Anyone" is a book about the ravages of abuse. The book provides a voice for the pain that few of us know how to express. In reading this book I found out that I am not alone. I found comfort in knowing that you may not forget the injustice but you can heal from the past. This book was part of a journey that helped open my eyes to the real impact of abuse. It's contents are about sexual abuse but the message tells the universal truth of healing and the power of breaking the silence.
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Summary: A voice for the pain...
Review: "I Never Told Anyone" is a book about the ravages of abuse. The book provides a voice for the pain that few of us know how to express. In reading this book I found out that I am not alone. I found comfort in knowing that you may not forget the injustice but you can heal from the past. This book was part of a journey that helped open my eyes to the real impact of abuse. It's contents are about sexual abuse but the message tells the universal truth of healing and the power of breaking the silence.
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Summary: A voice for the pain...
Review: an excellent book. As a psychotherapist who specializes in working with sexual abusers, I have found this book to be very helpful in helping clients to realize the long term effects of abuse. It is moving, and one of the best books I have read in terms of the trauma of sexual abuse
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Summary: i never told anyone
Review: an excellent book. As a psychotherapist who specializes in working with sexual abusers, I have found this book to be very helpful in helping clients to realize the long term effects of abuse. It is moving, and one of the best books I have read in terms of the trauma of sexual abuse
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Summary: It gave me my voice..
Review: For me as a trauma survivor of childhood sexual abuse.. it helped me to realize the power of my words to give the pain inside an outlet. And it also made me realize how much my writing,in much of the ways of the people in the book, it can give insight to help on this long and hard journey of healing. I do only recommend this book if you are in therapy or if you have a strong support team. It may contain many triggers for some one in healing so be aware of that for yourself or if you get it for a friend. A book to have a box of tissues by your side as it uncovers their pain and or yours.
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Summary: heart breaking
Review: i felt alone, and the women in this book shared their experiences. i could relate to them. it helped me to see alot about myself. HIGHLY RECOMMENED. only if you are already in therapy!!!
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Summary: Inspiring stories of courage and growth
Review: I found this book a wonderful resource for my work with survivors. Not only did it give me insight into their pain, trauma, and feelings, but it also gave the survivors support. I often shared this book with survivors who were so moved that there were others out there who had experienced similar events and had the courage to write about it. Many survivors I worked with and shared this book with were grateful for the opportunity to hear others' stories and inspired to summon their own power to heal themselves. If you are looking for therapeutic techniques, research, or anything else, this is not the book for you - it is strictly stories of survivors who are brave enough to finally tell.
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Summary: I wasn't alone
Review: I read this book several years ago when I first went into therapy to come to grips with my own molestation. What I learned from this book was valuable for me, because as the title says "I hadn't told anyone". I learned was that the range of emotions that I was experiencing was normal for a survivor. Once I realized what was going on, I felt like I could take the next step in my healing process. If you or someone you know is trying to make sense of their own feelings and has never talked with other survivors, I recommend this book.
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Summary: Review from a man's perspective
Review: I'm a man. I found this book interesting and I feel it's worth its price but I only give it 2 stars, it doesn't live up to its potential. The stories describe sex crimes but are not followed with much description of the impact of the crime on the lives of those involved. There is little information or analysis of the damage done. It's like reading a book of arson stories, getting a detailed description of how the arsonist set the fire, then the story ends and you don't find out what burned down or how it affected people. The book works me into a rage, but I can't do anything with it, I don't have enough information to form any strong opinions about the solutions needed. From what I can glean it appears most of the damage is the result of shame. Children don't tell because of shame, and most of the damage results from children feeling embarrassed and going it alone. My now half-informed opinion is that an effort should be made at shame reduction in all children before they experience sex crime so children do tell and don't feel responsible. Mothers drilling into their daughters that most men are evil and sex is dirty appears to do major damage. You need to read this book at arms length. Just so you know what you are paying for, parts of this book contain feminist style anti-male hate speech. For example, the following is made up hate speech followed by an actual excerpt from the book. Made up hate speech: Although the bulk of crime is clearly perpetrated by blacks, substantial numbers of hispanics commit crime, and when they do, they are capable of the same brutality as blacks. This has been especially hard for me to face. I have wanted to believe that hispanics, though they sometimes do not protect others, are not actually the criminals themselves. Actual excerpt from book: Although the bulk of sexual abuse is clearly perpetrated by men, substantial numbers of women abuse, and when they do, they are capable of the same brutality as men. This has been especially hard for me to face. I have wanted to believe that women, though they sometimes do not protect their children, are not actually the abusers themselves. Ellen Bass was inspired to assemble the book by the birth of her daughter, which triggered a protective alarm in her. I wonder how her daughter turned out. I would say it's a fair guess that her daughter was raised fatherless and became a lesbian. If that's the answer to sexual abuse then this book is on target.
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Summary: All Too Rare: Women Breaking the Silence
Review: This collection of short true stories from women sexually abused in childhood is still all too rare (despite the media nonsense about "getting on the popular bandwagon of sexual abuse/incest"). I have yet to see one survivor speak out in public about this experience without difficulty because of all the social taboos that still exist about speaking these truths. These stories are especially useful to anyone wanting to understand the "variations on a theme" of sexual molestation. The stories are all unique in specifics of the abuse itself as well as some of the physical and psychological ramifications of abuse, but they also eerily make clear the universality of the experiences; the familial and social patterns of thinking that allow and even encourage sexual predators and the silencing of survivors. In a local survivors group, we're using this book as well as Heather Harrison's "Yesterday's Warrior"--another great survivor story--to explore abuse issues beyond just the theoretical frameworks. Some areas theory just can't reach. I would have liked to see more contemporary stories, but the fact that they show a "historical lineage" of sorts is also a powerful thing.
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