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Sexual Abuse by Health Professionals: A Personal Search for Meaning and Healing

Sexual Abuse by Health Professionals: A Personal Search for Meaning and Healing

Penfold, Susan

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ISBN10: 0802081061
ISBN13: 9780802081063
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Jul 4 1998
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.92 Depth: 8.91
Language: English

The author of this book is a psychiatrist, and the survivor of sexual and emotional abuse by the psychiatrist who was her therapist. She employs two voices in the writing of her book: the first part of each chapter is a narration of her own experiences as a victim of abuse; the second part, an account of her journey as a psychiatrist towards understanding the meaning of the abuse and how to heal from it. Her journey includes having a second, very different, experience of therapy; listening to the stories of other survivors of abuse by health professionals; reading published accounts of such abuses; making her story public to professional and general audiences; being a member of a group dedicated to combating sexual abuse by therapists; talking to colleagues who have treated victims of abuse by health professionals; culling ideas from the literature on trauma and abuse; and treating patients who are themselves survivors of abuse by health professionals.

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