Finding courage to speak : women's survival of child abuse

Alisen, Paige 1963- (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 1555535801 (paperback : alk. paper)
ISBN: 155553581X (cloth : alk. paper)
Physical Description: xix, 236 pages ; 22 cm.
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Publisher: Boston : Northeastern University Press, [2003]
Copyright: ©2003.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]229) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Trauma, violence, and women's mental health -- 2. Severe child abuse and its effects -- The body speaks: trauma and multiple personality -- 4. Women, children, and trauma: a societal perspective -- 5. Supporting the survivors -- 6. Working together to ease the suffering postscript -- Resources on traumatic stress and dissociation -- Applying for social security disability -- Letter requesting change of doctor.