The Healing Choice: Your Guide to Emotional Recovery After an Abortion (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780684831961)

Two psychotherapists present a supportive guide to coping with the emotional and psychological aftermath of abortion, offering a step-by-step program that combines information, reassurance, and guidance to help women begin the process of recovery.

"This is a book for any women who feels psychological pain from her abortion...this is not a book about judgment, politics, or religion." -from the authors' introduction

Few women can walk away from the experience of abortion without some lingering emotional discomfort. Unresolved feelings of guilt, shame, and sadness may not surface until months, often years, after an abortion. We may lead outwardly normal lives, but these emotions can continue to cast a shadow, having a negative impact on personal relationships, coloring our moral or religious beliefs, even causing anxiety when we deal with a planned pregnancy. These feelings, if ignored, can possibly manifest themselves in more troubling ways, resulting in unstable relationships, self-destructive and addictive behaviors, depression, and low self-esteem.

Now, two experienced psychotherapists share their approach to dealing with sensitive and long-overlooked issue of post-abortion pain or trauma. The Healing Choice breaks the silence surrounding a topic often clouded by debate and focuses exclusively on helping women chart a path toward emotional recovery. Through a step-by-step process, complete with self-tests, exercises, and interviews with women who share their own post-abortion experiences, Dr. Candace De Puy and Dr. Dana Dovitch will help you come to terms with your post-abortion emotions and offer support as you begin the process of healing.

Author: Dana Dovitch, Candace de Puy
ISBN-10: 0684831961
ISBN-13: 9780684831961
Publisher: Touchstone Books
Language: English
Published: 03/06/1997
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.04w x 0.64d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 02/01/1997 pg. 911
Library Journal 02/01/1997 pg. 96
Rec Ref Bks in Paperback 01/01/2000 pg. 252