Abused: A Guide to Recovery for Adult Survivors of Emotional/Physical Child Abuse [Paperback]

Dee Anna Parrish (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1990

If a part of your life seems to make no sense, yet you can t put the puzzle together because some of the pieces are missing, this book is for you. If you suspect that the treatment you received as a child has in some way impaired your judgment as an adult, if your current life seems to lack peace, this book is for you. This book is also for today s children with the hope that their parents will recognize any abusive childhood treatment in their own past and finally stop the intergenerational cycle of abuse.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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About the Author

Dee Anna Parrish is a psychiatric social worker with extensive experience in individual, couple, and family counseling. She specializes in working with adults who were raised in dysfunctional families children of alcoholics, children of physical, sexual, verbal, and emotional abusers, and children of parents who abused through neglect and deprivation. Ms. Parrish is currently in private practice in Dallas and is affiliated with Human Affairs International. She is the author of Abused: A Recovery Guide for Adult Survivors of Physical/Emotional Abuse.She lives in Dallas, Texas. Books by Dee Anna Parrish, LCSW --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 135 pages
• Publisher: Station Hill Pr (September 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0882680897
• ISBN-13: 978-0882680897
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,883,951 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Instructional book for the layman & for new therapists, November 21, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Abused (Paperback)

Very well done. The author is a Therapist with a Master in Social Work and many years of experience working with survivors of various kinds of emotional & physical abuse. She defines child abuse, provides a self-test so the reader can determine if their experience was actually abuse, gives symptoms experienced by adult survivors and explains many of the unproductive resulting roles and behaviors that they may take on as adults. She gives case histories & details steps to recovery--very instructive. There are explanations of various types of therapies, or different models used by therapists for helping survivors--take what you like, or what works for you, from here and leave the rest. There are suggested self-therapeutic excercises such as cathartic writing, suggesting readings and support services that may be out of date now as this is an older book. Yet the information in this book is still appropriate and useful.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars An awful, misguided, and harmful book, May 28, 2000

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This review is from: Abused: A Guide to Recovery for Adult Survivors of Emotional/Physical Child Abuse (Paperback)

This book is out dated and out of print. Good thing too considering that it follows the early eighties themes of everyone is codependent, and past life regression can help you remember things such as being assaulted by Russian soldiers in the last century and once you remember that, you will suddenly stop repressing feeling of your own abuse. Yeah right. If you find this book, destroy it!