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Editorial Reviews
Choice, October 1999
Gartner draws together the literature on men who were sexually abused as boys. After a chapter on definitions, the author explores the impact of sexual abuse on men's emotional development, sexual identity, sexual orientation, and relationships. Although not a treatment manual, the book has extensive discussions of 38 of the patients Gartner has treated. Though it emphasizes transference and countertransference, a chapter on the patient -therapist dyad has a particularly perceptive section on the vicarious traumatization of therapists working with those patients. The author provides in-depth analysis of the effect of sexual abuse on boys/men and provides a sophisticated tying together of the cultural, developmental, and personality factors influencing the patients' adjustment.
Gartner draws together the literature on men who were sexually abused as boys. After a chapter on definitions, the author explores the impact of sexual abuse on men's emotional development, sexual identity, sexual orientation, and relationships. Although not a treatment manual, the book has extensive discussions of 38 of the patients Gartner has treated. Though it emphasizes transference and countertransference, a chapter on the patient -therapist dyad has a particularly perceptive section on the vicarious traumatization of therapists working with those patients. The author provides in-depth analysis of the effect of sexual abuse on boys/men and provides a sophisticated tying together of the cultural, developmental, and personality factors influencing the patients' adjustment.
This book adds to the literature of an underexplored area: there are many books on sexually abused girls but few on boys.
W. P. Anderson University of Missouri-Columbia
Review
"Betrayed as Boys is a thoughtful and perceptive contribution. Dr. Gartner's voluminous and sensitive clinical material illuminates the difficulties, dilemmas, and rewards of working with sexually traumatized men. Here are insights and useful observations in abundance. This book belongs in the library of all clinicians who treat the victims of childhood sexual abuse." --Richard P. Kluft, MD Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Temple University School of Medicine, Co-editor, Clinical Perspectives on Multiple Personality Disorder
"This book helps to bring psychodynamic psychotherapy back to its roots, and to lift the veil that has too long obscured the childhood sexual abuse of males. It would be a useful text in a graduate course dealing with the treatment issues of males." --Mic Hunter, PsyD, author of Abused Boys, editor of The Sexually Abused Male
"This much-needed contribution to the trauma literature informs clinicians, researchers, and scholars about the tragic consequences for men who were sexually traumatized as boys. Gartner's presentation of extensive clinical vignettes bespeaks an author who is theoretically sophisticated and clinically experienced, and who has the courage to present his work forthrightly. The book is scholarly, beautifully written, and infused with an affectively gripping immediacy. It is an important and long-overdue resource for anyone interested in a more thorough understanding of the sexual abuse of boys and its sequelae." --Mary Gail Frawley-O'Dea, PhD, Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalyst, Nyack, NY, Treating the Adult Survivor of Childhood Sexual Abuse
"This book helps to bring psychodynamic psychotherapy back to its roots, and to lift the veil that has too long obscured the childhood sexual abuse of males. It would be a useful text in a graduate course dealing with the treatment issues of males." --Mic Hunter, PsyD, author of Abused Boys, editor of The Sexually Abused Male
"This much-needed contribution to the trauma literature informs clinicians, researchers, and scholars about the tragic consequences for men who were sexually traumatized as boys. Gartner's presentation of extensive clinical vignettes bespeaks an author who is theoretically sophisticated and clinically experienced, and who has the courage to present his work forthrightly. The book is scholarly, beautifully written, and infused with an affectively gripping immediacy. It is an important and long-overdue resource for anyone interested in a more thorough understanding of the sexual abuse of boys and its sequelae." --Mary Gail Frawley-O'Dea, PhD, Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalyst, Nyack, NY, Treating the Adult Survivor of Childhood Sexual Abuse
"...offers useful and jargon-free recommendations for both individual and group therapeutic interventions. The book is scholarly, with a large bioliography that contextualizes Gartner's contribution within a growing body of scholarly work establishing the reality of male sexual victimization."--Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic
"He draws upon the work of other therapists and researchers, many of whom have been trailblazers in raising the level of awareness and skill in this field, and combines them with his own thinking and experience to produce a work which is of considerable value to both experienced and trainee therapists....The breadth of this book is impressive....In summary, this is a book to which I will return. It connects on an academic, practical and emotional level and as such will provide much to therapists working with men. In that way it will hopefully also serve to provide help to those many men who increasingly are deciding to acknowledge their abuse histories and seek assistance in their journeys to recovery. To accompany these men on their journey can be a very stormy ride, to have Richard Gartner's book by our side can offer stimulation, support and comfort."--Human Nature Review
"Publications about men sexually abused as boys are infrequent, but rare indeed is the work that discusses this population, clinically and theoretically, in sound psychoanalytic terms. Here, in Richard Gartner's Betrayed as Boys, we have such a volume. Gartner writes with a clear psychoanalytic understanding of the conflicts and struggles of these men, and by presenting an array of vivid clinical examples, bring the reader to the experience of sitting in the consulting room, working with them to understand their pain....Gartner is to be congratulated for his thorough descriptions of psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis with this population as well as for his creativity in working psychoanalytically with dissociation and in combining psychoanalysis with group psychotherapy. Convincingly and courageously, he has expanded the use of psychoanalysis to a population once regarded as untreatable by many in the psychoanalytic community."--Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA)
"...an important book that provides a major resource for clinicians working with men who were sexually abused as boys....In sum, this is a thought-provoking book that is, at once, clinically sophisticated yet accessible. Perhaps most important, it has immediacy in its applicability to clinical practice. Therapists working with sexually abused men will find that it helps them as they navigate the heretofore most uncharted territory of this treatment population. Sexually abused male patients will benefit as their therapists broaden their understanding of issues that have so much immediacy for patients and cause them so much hardship. This is an essential resource for all clinicians who treat victims of sexual abuse."--Contemporary Psychoanalysis
"Those who are already familiar with group therapy will find this a good description of how group dynamics affect clients who have been sexually abused and vise versa. Gartner wrote his intention was 'to raise, delineate, and develop the themes that often face the man with such a history and the clinician working with him'. In this reviewer's opinion he succeeds."--SPSMM Bulletin (The Society for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinity)
"The author provides in-depth analysis of the effect of sexual abuse on boys/men and provides a sophisticated tying together of the cultural, developmental, and personality factors influencing the patients' adjustment....This book adds to the literature of an underexplored area....Upper-division undergraduates through professionals." --Choice
"...relevant and rewarding to clinicians of all theoretical orientations. The book is especially valuable in building bridges between psychoanalytic concepts and newer conceptualizations of trauma and its treatment. Gartner's treatment of masculine gender identity and intimacy issues for both heterosexual and homosexual males is especially sensitive and compelling. This is an excellent book that should be read by all mental health professionals with an interest in treating the traumatized." --Psychiatric Times
"Gartner offers a scholarly and clinically astute contribution to an increasingly rich body of literature on the traumatic aftermath faced by men who were sexually abused as boys. He discredits some harmful myths....Abundant and perceptive clinical vignettes evoke deep and often disquieting responses....This is important reading for everyone working with sexually abused men; for psychodynamic psychotherapists and students, it is required." --Readings
"Unraveling the
"He draws upon the work of other therapists and researchers, many of whom have been trailblazers in raising the level of awareness and skill in this field, and combines them with his own thinking and experience to produce a work which is of considerable value to both experienced and trainee therapists....The breadth of this book is impressive....In summary, this is a book to which I will return. It connects on an academic, practical and emotional level and as such will provide much to therapists working with men. In that way it will hopefully also serve to provide help to those many men who increasingly are deciding to acknowledge their abuse histories and seek assistance in their journeys to recovery. To accompany these men on their journey can be a very stormy ride, to have Richard Gartner's book by our side can offer stimulation, support and comfort."--Human Nature Review
"Publications about men sexually abused as boys are infrequent, but rare indeed is the work that discusses this population, clinically and theoretically, in sound psychoanalytic terms. Here, in Richard Gartner's Betrayed as Boys, we have such a volume. Gartner writes with a clear psychoanalytic understanding of the conflicts and struggles of these men, and by presenting an array of vivid clinical examples, bring the reader to the experience of sitting in the consulting room, working with them to understand their pain....Gartner is to be congratulated for his thorough descriptions of psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis with this population as well as for his creativity in working psychoanalytically with dissociation and in combining psychoanalysis with group psychotherapy. Convincingly and courageously, he has expanded the use of psychoanalysis to a population once regarded as untreatable by many in the psychoanalytic community."--Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA)
"...an important book that provides a major resource for clinicians working with men who were sexually abused as boys....In sum, this is a thought-provoking book that is, at once, clinically sophisticated yet accessible. Perhaps most important, it has immediacy in its applicability to clinical practice. Therapists working with sexually abused men will find that it helps them as they navigate the heretofore most uncharted territory of this treatment population. Sexually abused male patients will benefit as their therapists broaden their understanding of issues that have so much immediacy for patients and cause them so much hardship. This is an essential resource for all clinicians who treat victims of sexual abuse."--Contemporary Psychoanalysis
"Those who are already familiar with group therapy will find this a good description of how group dynamics affect clients who have been sexually abused and vise versa. Gartner wrote his intention was 'to raise, delineate, and develop the themes that often face the man with such a history and the clinician working with him'. In this reviewer's opinion he succeeds."--SPSMM Bulletin (The Society for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinity)
"The author provides in-depth analysis of the effect of sexual abuse on boys/men and provides a sophisticated tying together of the cultural, developmental, and personality factors influencing the patients' adjustment....This book adds to the literature of an underexplored area....Upper-division undergraduates through professionals." --Choice
"...relevant and rewarding to clinicians of all theoretical orientations. The book is especially valuable in building bridges between psychoanalytic concepts and newer conceptualizations of trauma and its treatment. Gartner's treatment of masculine gender identity and intimacy issues for both heterosexual and homosexual males is especially sensitive and compelling. This is an excellent book that should be read by all mental health professionals with an interest in treating the traumatized." --Psychiatric Times
"Gartner offers a scholarly and clinically astute contribution to an increasingly rich body of literature on the traumatic aftermath faced by men who were sexually abused as boys. He discredits some harmful myths....Abundant and perceptive clinical vignettes evoke deep and often disquieting responses....This is important reading for everyone working with sexually abused men; for psychodynamic psychotherapists and students, it is required." --Readings
"Unraveling the