Sibling Abuse: Hidden Physical, Emotional, and Sexual Trauma

by Vernon R. Wiehe

Book Overview

Often excused by parents as kids will be kids′ behaviour, sibling abuse remains largely unrecognized. Symptoms of such abuse and its devastating effects on victims go undetected, victims do not receive appropriate therapeutic intervention, and transgressors do not come to the attention of the courts.

The author of this book brings this neglected area out of the shadows′ with personal accounts of adult survivors, insights into...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761910085
• ISBN13: 9780761910084
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Excellent for professionals and survivors

This book is a compendium of scholarly factual information rendered sensitively by someone who knows the truth about sibling abuse, both assault and incest. I highly recommend it to anyone seeking information about the subject, and especially for those seeking validation of their experiences, which is hard to come by in families affected by abuse or from peers who discount it.

Required for all Sibling Incest Survivors

As the survivor of over 15 years of sibling sexual abuse, this book was a godsend. For the first time, sibling incest was legitimized and shown to be just as damaging, if not more so, than parent/child incest. Very supportive and helpful.

Good but kowtows to feminist dogma

This is an excellent book about this subject, which is admittedly a very difficult one to discuss. Unfortunately, the author felt obligated at one point to couch the discussion in terms of men's supposed need to control women -- despite the fact that many of the abusive siblings were female. One gets the impression that the author was forced to do this by an feminist editor or as the result of pressure from academic colleagues. He even cites Straus, Gelles & Steinmetz, without mentioning that their research confirmed that wives are as violent as husbands. What's interesting about this is that anyone who's been around feminist academics can't possibly be blind to the fact that women can be incredibly controlling and are capable of all kinds of interesting revenge when thwarted.