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The Courage to Heal

  • 527 pages · about 9 hours
  • First published 1988
  • 21 editions

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1 About this book

First published in 1988, the groundbreaking The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse has been completely revised, updated, and expanded for its 20th Anniversary edition. Considered "a classic" and "the bible of healing from child sexual abuse," this inspiring, comprehensive and compassionate guide provides a map of support of the healing journey and a lifeline for millions.

Weaving together personal experience with professional knowledge, the authors provide clear explanations, practical suggestions, strategies, and support throughout the survival healing process -- as well as help, hope and reassurance for families, friends, and caregivers.

Readers will feel recognized and encouraged by hundreds of moving first-person accounts drawn from interviews and the author's extensive work with survivors, both nationally and internationally. Available in translations, as well as in an enhanced audio format, its life-saving messages resonate across cultural, leaf.

Good for readers who want: psychology, self-improvement, and a long read.

  • Psychology
  • Women, psychology
  • Self-help
  • Adult Survivors of Child Abuse
  • Adult child abuse victims
  • Adult child sexual abuse victims
  • Child sexual abuse
  • Sexual Child Abuse

2 About Ellen Bass

Born 1947

Ellen Bass (born June 16, 1947) is an American poet and author. She has won three Pushcart Prizes and a Lambda Literary Award for her 2002 book Mules of Love. She co-authored the 1991 book The Courage to Heal about recovery from child sexual abuse. She received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2014 and was elected chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2017.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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