Recovering from Rape: Practical Advice on Overcoming the Trauma and Coping with Police, Hospitals, and the Courts - For the Survivors of Sex

by Linda E. Ledray and Ledray; Illustrator-No Illustrations

Book Overview

From clinical psychologist Linda E. Ledray, Recovering from Rape is a comprehensive handbook offering emotional support and practical guidance to survivors and their loved ones in coping and overcoming the trauma of rape.

If you have been sexually assaulted, you are probably experiencing a mix of fear, anger, and depression. If you are a relative, friend, or lover of someone who has been assaulted, you too may be deeply affected...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805029281
• ISBN13: 9780805029284
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: Holt McDougal
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

recovering from rape

this book is an excellent resource. it covers every aspect of post-rape healing and decisions. i highly recommend it to any rape survivor or a loved one of a survivor.

For survivors and their family, friends, significant others

This book was one of the first I read after my rape a little over 2 years ago. I read this book in one day and handed it to my boyfriend to read it. It really helped me understand what I was going through and why. My boyfriend, at the time, was able to read it and was bale to further understand my anger, guilt-- all of the feelings that I was dealing with. Although one cannot fully understand those feelings unless you have gone through it yourself; this book does help family members, friends, and lovers understand as much as they can. I really recommend this book especially if you were recently raped. Please, also remember though that just reading a book and not seeking therapy will not help you recover fully. Seeking help from a person with experience in rape and sexual assault will help as well as reading, journaling, and speaking to friends and family.

5-stars and not just because OPRAH recommended it!

With respects to significant others, friends and family, this book covers a sufficient beginnings on what a victim may need for understanding. A victim? I'll have to sign-on under that category for what happened a long time ago. When I was in recovery counseling, individual and group, this book helped me to leap into higher levels of coping skills. When I was healing, I was hunting for genuine helpful knowledge under every rock and around every aisle. I didn't need alphabet-soup authors who published nonsense, empty hypothesis, trying to impress their awed students. I needed help.Linda Ledray, Dr. Ledray knows the subject matter, rape recovery. She knows the will that we victims whisper inside--the one that wants for a better level in life, perhaps a happy one. GO FOR IT! This book is not a panacea. If you are a victim, there will always be more issues on your hunt, like there was with mine. We are individuals, each experience is different. I am back today, to purchase a third copy of this book. A young woman is going through the early stages of recovery. She's remembering the monsters and is plenty on the: "Why me?" "What did I do to..." She could use a little solid matter to peruse. I'm just a friend. My best choice was to shut my thoughts and get her this book. It was the best book resource among my hunt. God bless you, all and all who care. Having your personality crunched-down and your soul invaded is not a matter to take lightly for a woman or a man or a boy or a girl or an infant. Dr. Ledray will cover that. Maybe someday, the law will reflect realistic trial proceedures and sentences. IN the end, God will always know the tally.

An excellent guide book for rape survivors.

As a clinical psychologist working in a college counseling center, I often recommend this book to clients who have been victims of rape/sexual assault. It provides excellent educational material, including a review of rape myths, information on typical effects of a rape (very useful for helping survivors feel they are not alone), and much more. Plus, Ledray takes her readers through the legal process of prosecuting a rapist in a step-by-step fashion. A final valuable addition is the inclusion of guidelines for significant others at the end of every chapter. My only caveat is that this book focuses on stranger rape rather than the much more prevalent date rape, but despite this, it is an extremely valuable resource.

An excellent tool for recovery

This book is an excellent choice for survivors, friends and family, and professionals going through the recovery process. It goes step by step through the recovery process for both the survivor and his/her family and friends. I actually first read this book in a course on Violence Against Women. I later found out that it is also used in the Sexual Assualt program at the Women's Crisis Center I work at. Now that I have taken the position as Sexual Assault Advocate, I will continue to use it in my work and reccommend it to my clients.