Healing the Incest Wound: Adult Survivors in Therapy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780393705478)

"Highly recommended as an authoritative text on incest and its treatment" and "essential reading for all therapists," Healing the Incest Wound was a groundbreaking book that put incest studies and treatment on the map. Now, almost 20 years later, this bestselling text is fully updated, offering the most current studies and findings on incest typologies, dynamics, and treatment strategies. Drawing on cutting-edge research on incest and other forms of child abuse, it includes attention to their neurological, attachment, affective, and dissociative sequelae. Courtois--a veteran practitioner and an expert in complex traumatic stress disorders resulting from chronic child abuse--presents a comprehensive revision to this classic treatment manual for therapists.

Author: Christine A. Courtois
ISBN-10: 0393705471
ISBN-13: 9780393705478
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 04/26/2010
Pages: 784
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.50lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.60w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2010 pg. 277