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ISBN 10: 0230574041
ISBN 13: 9780230574045
Author: Jo Woodiwiss
Located within a burgeoning therapeutic/self-help culture this book explores stories of childhood sexual abuse, 'recovered memories' and multiple personalities, and explodes the myths surrounding women who, without memories, redefine themselves as victims.
1 Introduction
The women whose stories feature in this book
Organisation of the book
2 A Story for Our Time
Introduction
The foundations of the contemporary childhood sexual abuse story
Childhood and development
The powerful adult woman
Experiencing child sexual abuse
Child sexual abuse as a causal narrative
The inner child and evidence of psychological damage
The symptoms
Sex and the contemporary sexual abuse story
The healing discourse
Alternative endings: False memory syndrome
Alternative endings: Multiplicity
Beyond the harm story
Giving voice
3 Beyond the Recovered Memory Wars
Introduction: The main debate
Recovered memories
The inner child
False memories
Beyond the main debate
Finding a truth
False memories of sexual abuse
Trauma and the creation of identities
4 Choosing a Story: Making Sense, Finding Evidence
Introduction
The participants and their stories
Traumatic forgetting
Making sense of unhappiness, identifying symptoms
Being normal, connecting with others
Revisiting childhood
Different lives, different stories
Making sense and a better life
5 Making Contact: Knowledge and the Inner Child
Introduction
Uncovering knowledge
Spontaneous knowledge
The inner child of women's accounts
Interpreting knowledge: Help from the experts
Actively seeking knowledge
Not the first author
Memories, knowledge and the child within
6 Life with the Inner Child
Introduction
The adult woman and the inner child
Acting your age
Multiple children
Becoming whole?
Who is the inner child?
7 Problems with the Children
Introduction
A problem of separation
Creation
Anne's children: 'Living as a group'
The inner children of women's accounts
8 The Contradictory Self
Introduction
The self of the recovery literature
Negotiating the contradictory self
The core self
Fragmented self
The 'front person' as self
The self becoming and the self that should have been
The self and false memories
A self to live with
9 Healing and Growing Up
Introduction
Healing the self, recognising the threat
Breaking the cycle
Improving the self
Time out for the self
Beyond healing
Limitations of healing
10 Compulsory Sexuality?
Introduction
Sex in the childhood sexual abuse recovery literature
Childhood and sexual innocence
The adult woman: Identifying problems and learning to be sexual
Alternative readings
A sexuality of one's own
11 A Role for the Storytellers
Bibliography
Index
books on childhood sexual abuse
stories of abuse and neglect
child neglect and abuse stories
disturbing abuse stories
boy abuse story
neglect abuse stories
Tags: Jo Woodiwiss, Contesting, Stories
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