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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A brave, insightful exploration of personal liberation.
Betsy Petersen is a writer who manages to heal herself and others through a painful invasion of her own privacy. Her lyrical prose style takes the edge off some of the more graphic portions. You find yourself weeping for the child she was, and cheering for the woman she becomes
Published on August 15, 1997
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Recovery is a process rather than a destination
Betsy Pertersen's story of childhood abuse by her father is a good entry-level story for those that are beginning their own recovery. This book is but a part of the author's own process; a work that would be an excellent compliment to on-going therapy for others.
Published on March 5, 2002 by Dr. Bob
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A brave, insightful exploration of personal liberation.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Dancing With Daddy: A Childhood Lost and a Life Regained (Hardcover)
Betsy Petersen is a writer who manages to heal herself and others through a painful invasion of her own privacy. Her lyrical prose style takes the edge off some of the more graphic portions. You find yourself weeping for the child she was, and cheering for the woman she becomes
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Recovery is a process rather than a destination,
By Dr. Bob (CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dancing With Daddy: A Childhood Lost and a Life Regained (Hardcover)
Betsy Pertersen's story of childhood abuse by her father is a good entry-level story for those that are beginning their own recovery. This book is but a part of the author's own process; a work that would be an excellent compliment to on-going therapy for others.
2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A Very Moving Book,
By A Customer
This review is from: Dancing With Daddy: A Childhood Lost and a Life Regained (Hardcover)
This is the story of a young girl who was molested by herfather and how the abuse affected her life. Very poignant.
6 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
For those who have never been there,
By "komic" (Kentucky) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dancing With Daddy: A Childhood Lost and a Life Regained (Hardcover)
Those who have been there will undoubtedly dismiss this book as a novel intended for those who have not.Ms. Petersen is unconvincing in anything other than that her therapist taught her to direct her unhappiness toward a fantasized childhood of sexual abuse. Certainly there was abuse in her childhood: inappropriate sexual innuendo, exposure to her parents' unorthodox lifestyle, and inappropriate touching. To extend this to unremembered sexual foreplay and intercourse is therapist induced and unreal, a harmful fabrication that minimizes the effects of non-intercourse abuse. Ms. Petersen (and her therapist) would have served better to demonstrate the longterm effects of inappropriate talk and touching, which is more widespread and less understood. "Dreams" that she claims were memories are more likely the visions of fears she carries from a lifetime of wanting a father's love from a man who did not know how to express that love in other than sexual terminology. I fear that this author and her therapist are part of the problem rather than the solution. They risk forwarding the myth of fabricated abuse, numbing readers to a very real problem. |
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Dancing With Daddy: A Childhood Lost and a Life Regained by Betsy Petersen (Hardcover - June 1, 1991)
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