Healing the Incest Wound

Synopsis

Highly recommended as an authoritative text on incest and its treatmentand essential reading for all therapists, Healing the Incest Wound was agroundbreaking book that put incest studies and treatment on the map. Now,almost 20 years later, this bestselling text is fully updated, offering the mostcurrent studies and findings on incest typologies, dynamics, and treatmentstrategies. Drawing on cutting-edge research on incest and other forms of childabuse, it includes attention to their neurological, attachment, affective, anddissociative sequelae. Courtois-a veteran practitioner and an expert in complextraumatic stress disorders resulting from chronic child abuse-presents acomprehensive revision to this classic treatment manual for therapists.