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...articles:.   Cognitive Accommodations to Sexual Abuse - by Douglas Eby "Perhaps the deepest damage that sexual abuse can do to a child is to shake her trust in her own instincts, so that s/he becomes a stranger and an outcast to her own body." As R.D.Laing pointed out, this kind of divorce of the body and the self is developed at the time of abuse as a necessary defence, but in adulthood, "the self wishes to be wedded to and embedded in the body, yet is constantly afraid to lodge in the body for fear of there being subject to attacks and dangers which it cannot escape."   Silent No More (coping with sexual abuse) - by Robin D. Stone, Essence, August, 2001

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...sites:.   Break the Cycle  - Empowering youth to end domestic violence "..mission is to end domestic violence by working proactively with youth." feminist film reviews - University of Maryland, Women's Studies Database The Joyful Heart Foundation  - an organization devoted to healing and recovery of survivors of rape and sexual assault through the use of dolphin-human therapy. Men Can Stop Rape RAINN - Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network / National Sexual Assault Hotline Rape Treatment Center, Santa Monica SAVI - the Sexual Assault and Violence Intervention Program Sexual Violence Prevention Education Services / UCLA Center for Women & Men Songs Related to Domestic Abuse and Sexual Assault Survivors Art Foundation "Dedicated to encourage healing through the arts... committed to empowering trauma survivors with effective expressive outlets via internet art gallery, outreach programs, national exhibitions, publications and development of employment skills." Survivors Hope ".. for survivors.... people who have been sexually abused and contemplated or attempted suicide... VAWnet - National Electronic Network on Violence Against Women The online resource for advocates working to end domestic violence, sexual assault, and other violence in the lives of women and their children. The Zero - The Official Website of Andrew Vachss Attorney, Consultant, Novelist - matters concerning children and youth: abuse/neglect, delinquency, custody/visitation, related tort litigation.

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"When violence against women and girls end,  we will know we were heard." Eve Ensler & Salma Hayek "When violence against women and girls end,  I will let my body sing" Denyce Graves, Opera Singer etc photographs by Joyce Tenneson V-Day : Until the Violence Stops

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....books:     Ellen Bass and Laura Davis. The Courage to Heal : A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse Francesca Lia Block. The Hanged Man Laurel [age 17] thinks of herself as the Hanged Man, the tarot symbol meaning "Renunciation. Self-deprivation. Suspended in illusion...Self-poisoning. Also, resurrection." She is punishing herself for the incestual relationship she had with her father, and for loving him in spite of it. She smokes to lose flesh. She wants to change, to be pure and free "like some fairy thing." At the same time, she wants to have a woman's body... Her lover, Jack, and her friend, Claudia, try to help her-the three of them even sleep together-but in the end it's she who resurrects herself, and her mother who shares the flood of her pain. Her period returns, and she is seized with the desire to paint and to live. [School Library Journal] Frank G. Bolton et al. Males at Risk : The Other Side of Child Sexual Abuse Elizabeth Claman. Writing Our Way Out of the Dark: An Anthology by Child Abuse Survivors Pat Cox. Child Sexual Assault : Feminist Perspectives Linda Katherine Cutting. Memory Slips: A Memoir of Music and Healing For most of her life, Linda Katherine Cutting was ordered to apologize and to keep silent. "If you tell you'll burn in hell," she was admonished by her minister father. Remarkably, Cutting grew up to become a successful concert pianist, but her performances came to a halt when memory lapses at the keyboard jolted memories muted since early childhood. Her subsequent breakdown and her climb back from suicidal despair are recorded in Memory Slips. [from review by Eugenia Zuckerman  The Washington Post, February 2 1997] Louise A. DeSalvo. Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Her Life and Work Patricia Weaver Francisco. Telling : A Memoir of Rape and Recovery Francisco was a happily married 20-something writer and assistant editor when a rapist entered her apartment while her husband was away and brutally raped her. ... Novelist Francisco chronicles that recovery here in a book that is personal and yet universal enough to offer hope to others who have faced similar trauma. [Kirkus Reviewss] Jennifer J. Freyd  Betrayal Trauma : The Logic of Forgetting Childhood Abuse "Although the mechanisms involved [in memory loss and retrieval] are far from fully understood, Ms. Freyd marshals the psychological, neurological and cognitive-science literature with impressive skill to suggest several plausible possibilities." Derek Bickerton, New York Times Book Review [review from site of Professor Freyd -- which includes multiple reviews and links] Robert J. Furey. You Are Good Enough : Overcoming Feelings of Inadequacy Paula Ruth Gilbert, Kimberly K. Eby. Violence and Gender : An Interdisciplinary Reader Lynda Hart, Peggy Phelan. Acting Out: Feminist Performances Suzette A. Henke. Shattered Subjects : Trauma and Testimony in Women's Life-Writing "This critical study explores the autobiographical writings of six 20th-century women authors who experienced life-shattering trauma and used their writings as a means for survival and healing. The literary testimonies of Colette, H. D., Anais Nin, Janet Frame, Audre Lorde, and Sylvia Fraser provide startling evidence of post-traumatic stress disorder precipitated by rape, incest, childhood sexual abuse, grief, unwanted pregnancy, pregnancy-loss, or a severe illness that threatens the integrity of the body. *Shattered Subjects* suggests that the powerful medium of written life testimony may perform the function of 'scriptotherapy,' allowing the psychological reconfiguration of highly distressing emotional experiences." [review posted on Psyart list (Institute for Psychological Study of the Arts)] Linda J. Koenig, et al. From Child Sexual Abuse to Adult Sexual Risk: Trauma, Revictimization, and Intervention Noting that sexual abuse in childhood can cause physical as well as mental harm later in life, a team of behavioral scientists and psychologists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institute of Mental Health, present a collection of 14 papers that connect current scientific literature, basic trauma research, and clinical practice. Research into the connections between childhood abuse and social, psychological, behavioral, and health outcomes are summarized and theorized before intervention strategies are described.  [Book News] Peter A. Levine, Ph.D.  Waking the Tiger : Healing Trauma : The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences "Waking the Tiger offers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It views the human animal as a unique being, endowed with an instinctual capacity. It asks and answers an intriguing question.-- why are animals in the wild, though threatened routinely, rarely traumatized?  By understanding the dynamics that make wild animals virtually immune to traumatic symptoms, the mystery of human trauma is revealed. Waking the Tiger normalizes the symptoms of trauma and the steps needed to heal them. People are often traumatized by seemingly ordinary experiences.  The reader is taken on a guided tour of the subtle, yet powerful impulses that govern our responses to overwhelming life events. To do this, it employs a series of exercises that help us focus on bodily sensations. Through heightened awareness of these sensations trauma can be healed." [summary from author site Foundation for Human Enrichment] Carol Martin. A Sourcebook on Feminist Theatre and Performance: On and Beyond the Stage Alice Miller. The Untouched Key: Tracing Childhood Trauma in Creativity and Destructiveness Alice Miller. Prisoners of Childhood: The Drama of the Gifted Child and the Search for the True Self by Alice Miller Larry Morris et al.  Males at Risk : The Other Side of Child Sexual Abuse Annie G. Rogers, PhD. A Shining Affliction: A Story of Harm and Healing in Psychotherapy Reviewer: Stephanie Silva: Harvard child psychologist and severe child abuse survivor Annie Rogers suffered psychiatric hospitalizations once or twice a year from puberty until her late twenties -- when, after a six year insidiously inept and crazymaking "therapy," an attempt to stab and shoot that therapist and one last hospitalization for another word salad psychosis (and no more insurance), her exceptional and no doubt desperate sister and friends found the gifted and pro bono analyst Dr. Blumenfeld. ...  Annie's politically correct adolescence shows in her disdain for the "medical models and diagnoses" Dr. Blumenfeld himself could afford to abandon only because he knew them and the blind therapists who live by them so well -- and thus could authentically reach and stabilize the talented and brilliant, borderline and psychotic personality and doctoral intern Annie. "You have a kind of giftedness, Annie, that probably has always been inseparable from your suffering, and we don't know very much about that yet." .... ~ ~ ~   .. .. Merril D. Smith. Encyclopedia of Rape Rape has been perpetrated throughout history and worldwide, and today ours has been called a rape culture, because sexual violence, mainly against women and children, is prevalent and tolerated to some extent.  The Encyclopedia of Rape offers 185 entries in an A-to-Z essay format covering the historical scope and magnitude of the issue in the United States and globally.  Written by a host of scholars from diverse fields, it provides informed perspectives on the key dimensions of the topic, from concepts, social movements, offenders, high-profile cases, legislation, influential activists, landmark texts, and victimology to representations in literature and art.  This solid, accessible ready-reference will allow students and the general reader to contextualize current events and reading and viewing in history, literature and the Bible, film, art history, gender studies, psychology, criminology, popular culture, and more. [from publisher summary] ~ ~ ~ Katlyn Stewart. Nightmares Echo [autobiography] Reviewer: Lynn Barry - "Nightmares Echo" cut me to the core of my being. That a young person would have to endure night after night of sexual harrassment in the worst possible way, by the person's own father is horrifying and to read that the person survived and went on to write an outstanding book about it all...well, it's incredible. Katlyn Stewart is to be applauded for not only living to tell her tale of abuse at her father's hands but writing it all down so others can understand what some people go through in their lifetime and how they cope. Wendy Ann Wood, Julie Livingston. Triumph over Darkness: Understanding and Healing the Trauma      of Childhood Sexual Abuse

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