What About Me?: A Guide for Men Helping Female Partners Deal With Childhood Sexual Abuse - Softcover

Cameron, Grant

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0921165382 ISBN 13: 9780921165385

Publisher: Creative Bound Inc, 1994

Synopsis

This is a book for the silent sufferers - the millions of men worldwide who are helping female partners recover from the trauma of childhood sexual abuse. What About Me? will help men understand the issues surrounding childhood sexual abuse and prepare them for the rocky journey through the healing process with a survivor. It will help them understand why women who are healing say and do certain things. It will also give them a better understanding of their own actions and feelings.

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About the Author

Grant Cameron is a columnist. He has worked for many newspapers and has won several awards for his thought-provoking journalism.

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Sometimes all this abuse and the damage it did to the child leads to the development of another personality within the child. Sounds crazy, doesn't it? Sure it does, but the unfortunate part is it's true. We call this personality the child within, or the inner child.

It's something you're going to have to learn more about and it's something I've devoted an entire chapter to later on in this book. It's a concept that is strange, frightening and fascinating. It's something you can't see or touch, but it's real to the survivor.

The child within can best be described as a personality within a personality. It has its own thoughts and temperament. It has its own feelings and frustrations. It's like a little person living inside the adult survivor. The child within is really the entity or core ego that was abused and never healed from that abuse.

Edition details

• Publisher: Creative Bound Inc
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0921165382
• ISBN 13: 9780921165385
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 147