The Secret Trauma: Incest in the Lives of Girls and Women, Revised Edition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780465075966)

The Secret Trauma remains the definitive argument for the overwhelming prevalence of incestuous abuse. Based on findings about San Francisco, the book makes a persuasive case for an epidemic of abuse on a national scale. In her nuanced and sophisticated analysis, Russell carefully explores the complex variables of incestuous abuse: the changing incidence of abuse over time, the severity of th abuse, the victim's age, factors of class, race, and ethnicity, and long term effects on victims.In a new introduction to the revised edition, Russell takes on the most important issue to arise in the field since the book was originally published in 1986: the serious backlash that followed the outpouring of reports by victims/survivors, and the controversy over false accusations and "false memories."

Author: Diana Eh Russell
ISBN-10: 0465075967
ISBN-13: 9780465075966
Publisher: Basic Books
Language: English
Published: 10/29/1987
Pages: 472
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.19h x 6.14w x 1.20d