
Healing from Childhood Abuse
Understanding the Effects, Taking Control to Recover
- 192 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Written directly to individuals who have experienced childhood trauma, this book provides essential information that allows victims to begin recovering from their immense pain and suffering, and empowers them to examine their specific issues in order to become a true survivor. The American Medical Association currently estimates at least one in every five adults suffered abuse as a child. While childhood abuse or trauma is certainly not a new issue, it has reached epidemic proportion. Yet most clinicians have not been sufficiently trained to appreciate or understand the devastating long-term impact of abuse on the total person. John J. Lemoncelli, EdD, authored this book to enable those who suffer in silence to understand what happened, take control, and begin and maintain a program of recovery. It helps those abused in childhood to grasp how their experience impacted their development and the extent to which it negatively affects their present lives; encourages them to let go of the belief that they are damaged, dirty, or at fault; and provides an effective strategy for externalizing the source of their anguish, rather than blaming themselves. The author outlines several stages and common issues that may need to be addressed, but as no "one size fits all" treatment is possible, he provides strategies that empower victims to identify the specific sources of their pain.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Healing from Childhood Abuse
- Title
- Copyright
- DEDICATION
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- ONE: A New Approach to Healing
- TWO: The Parasite
- THREE: The Workings of the Parasite
- FOUR: The Impact of Abuse on Development
- FIVE: Some Issues to Assist You in Therapy
- SIX: Victim versus Survivor: Becoming a Survivor
- SEVEN: Forgiveness of the Self
- EIGHT: Perfectionism and People-Pleasing
- NINE: Boundaries
- TEN: Fragmented, Not Damaged
- ELEVEN: The Story of the Journey of Your Healing
- A Concluding Note
- An Invitation to Clinicians . . .
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author