What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

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Reviving Ophelia
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The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse by Ellen Bass?
Here's the link for browsing the book on Amazon (Look Inside):
http://www.amazon.com/Courage-Heal-Re...

Here's the link for browsing the book on Amazon (Look Inside):
http://www.amazon.com/Courage-Heal-Re...
Why Me? Help for Victims of Child Sexual Abuse Even If They Are Adults Now by Lynn Daugherty?
Here's the link for browsing the book on Amazon (Look Inside):
http://www.amazon.com/Help-Victims-Ch...
Here's the link for browsing the book on Amazon (Look Inside):
http://www.amazon.com/Help-Victims-Ch...
Your welcome. Hope that's the one. :)
You can view the book's Table of Contents on Amazon, which might trigger some memories.
You can view the book's Table of Contents on Amazon, which might trigger some memories.


Here is the link for it on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/Reviving-Opheli...
Books mentioned in this topic
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls (other topics)Why Me? Help for Victims of Child Sexual Abuse [Even If They Are Adults Now] (other topics)
The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (other topics)
The Courage To Heal : A Guide For Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (other topics)
Authors mentioned in this topic
Lynn Daugherty (other topics)Ellen Bass (other topics)
Anyway, the book was written by a woman, and I think she was some kind of psychiatrist/psychologist (don't know what's the appropiate word in English here) who specialized on treating girls that had been sexually abused.
I remember the book shocked me a lot because of the events described. Btw I was 10 or 11, so this must have been around 1999 or 2000.
If I recall correctly, the book was divided on chapters and each chapter covered the experience of a girl, the techniques used by the woman to try to heal them, and reflections from the author about the case, society, etc.
I remember two cases: one, the most shocking of them all, was about a girl who went to party and when she was coming home alone on the street, 4 boys picked her up forcefully and raped her in their car and left her on the street (one of the boys was pretty shocked about what his friends where doing and refused to rape her but didn't stop them either. The guys were saying that she wanted it because she was dressed like a slut). When she came back home she hid the fact from her family first, but later she told them. By the end of the therapy one of the things the author made her do was to write a pretend letter to her rapists in whichthe girl decided to "forgive" the guys (of course they never knew who they were) in order to let go of the burden and be able to go on with her life.
The other story I remember was about a young blond girl that went to the house of a friend and when she was alone with her father he touched her.
It was quite the fearmongering book.
I don't remember much else right now, but it may come to me later.
The book was most probably from USA. I read the Spanish edition, but all the names were in English.