Quest for Respect: A Healing Guide for Survivors of Rape

By Linda Brasswell

A guide to help anyone who is suffering from the humiliation and devastation of rape build a stronger, wiser, and more confident future. It also helps the families, friends, counselors, law enforcement personnel, and rape center volunteers understand the needs of rape survivors.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0934793204
• ISBN13: 9780934793209
• Release Date: July 1989
• Publisher: Pathfinder Publishing of California
• Length: 67 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.7" x 7.2" x 0.1"

Customer Reviews

Great tool!

This is an excellant tool that we use for support groups for victims of sexual assault! It is user friendly and really speaks to the victims. I would recommend this book to anyone that is a victim of sexual violence.

Quest for Respect

As a survivor and as a psychotherapist who has worked in the field of trauma recovery for 15 years, I found the book "Quest for Respect" the single most helpful piece of information I encountered, and I recommend it highly to survivors, family members, and their helping professionals. Terese

Great guide for survivors

As a therapist and survivor of rape, this book has been an essential resource for myself and so many others. This is the first book I recommend to all clients who have been raped. It can be read immediately following the rape and for years after, each time offering meaning and hope. This book may also be a guide for family and friends affected by this event, helping them better understand what the victim may be experiencing. This is a great place to begin and continue a healing journey.

A rape crisis center loaned me this book to read

I found this book very easy to read and helpful in the recovery process. It basically describes the process of going from victim to survivor. The shortness of the book did make it easier to read as I was in grad school at the time. I didn't have time to read anything besides my assignments. It addresses shame, guilt and anger and ends with solutions or ways to change thoughts and behavior (cognitive restructuring). It was a good introduction to survivor issues in a very manageable size. If you are in crisis now you can call the national sexual assault hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE. They will forward you to a local rape crisis counselor. The crisis center can give you a referral to a rape crisis counselor, a therapist, victim advocacy (for reporting to police or going to court), provide free counseling or offer a support group. This hotline is run by RAINN.org which is the leading resource on sexual assault.

Excellent Guide for the Survivor!

This is the best book I have read on the subject of rape & how to survive it. Unlike so many of the books out on rape, this is not written from a statistical aspect & how to prevent rape in the first place. This book is written totally to the survivor with exercises to help you recover from rape. If you are a victim of rape & trying to figure out how to recover from it, this is the book for you! It really made me realize that my reactions are typical of the normal victim & that there is nothing wrong with me for taking so long to recover. I highly recommend this book to anyone who has been the victim of rape & is trying to become a survivor!