Triumph Over Darkness: Understanding and Healing the Trauma of Childhood Sexual Abuse [Paperback]

Wendy Ann Wood (Author), Julie Livingston (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1991

"Triumph Over Darkness" is a collection of prose and therapeutic insights that create a powerful commentary on incest, rape, abuse, and the recovery process. Women and men share their personal experiences of childhood abuse and walk with the reader along the path toward wellness. They reflect each stage of healing with a clarity that, while often painful, is also hopeful. Addressing various aspects of abuse, including ritualistic abuse, multiple personality disorder, and partnering as well as providing a therapists's insights on the stages of healing, "Trumph Over Darkness" helps readers to understand recovery as predictable process and see that healing is possible.

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"The voices Wendy Ann Wood has gathered are sorrowful, yet uplifting: they extend the language of love with messages of recovery. The book's straight-forward, instructive passages should be helpful to many victims in their struggle to become survivors and advocates. Triumph Over Darkness is empowered by its insistence on the triumph of simple human dignity." -- Jason Barry, author of Lead Us Not into Temptation: Catholic Priests and the Sexual Abuse of Children

Product Details

• Paperback: 232 pages
• Publisher: Atria Books/Beyond Words; Original edition (January 1, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0941831868
• ISBN-13: 978-0941831864
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #266,329 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Ready to Heal?, November 10, 2002

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This review is from: Triumph Over Darkness: Understanding and Healing the Trauma of Childhood Sexual Abuse (Paperback)

If you are ready to heal from the trauma of Childhood Sexual Abuse, then this book is for you! Triumph Over Darkness is a collection of writings and drawings that are varied, creative and powerful commentaries on incest, rape and abuse. Through poetry, art, and first person accounts, 70 women share their experiences of childhood sexual abuse and walk with the reader along the path towards wellness. They reflect each stage of the healing process with a clarity and beauty that is frequently painful, often hopeful and that helps the reader understand the facts and myths surrounding the experience of abuse. Triumph Over Darkness will: Provide tools for survivors of abuse. Give insight into the process of recovery. Dispel the feelings of isolation. Help the reader understand the trauma of abuse. This second addition adds special chapters for partners of survivors, a look at ritual abuse and multiple personality disorder.