Triumph Over Darkness: Understanding and Healing the Trauma of Childhood Sexual Abuse (Original)

by Wendy Ann Wood and Marilyn Van Derbur

Book Overview

This collection of prose and therapeutic insights creates a powerful commentary on incest, rape, abuse, and the recovery process.
Women and men share their personal experiences of childhood abuse and walk with the reader along the path toward wellness. They reflect each stage of healing with a clarity that, while often painful, is also hopeful.
Addressing various aspects of abuse, including ritualistic abuse, multiple personality disorder,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0941831868
• ISBN13: 9780941831864
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Atria Books
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Ready to Heal?

If you are ready to heal from the trauma of Childhood Sexual Abuse, then this book is for you! Triumph Over Darkness is a collection of writings and drawings that are varied, creative and powerful commentaries on incest, rape and abuse. Through poetry, art, and first person accounts, 70 women share their experiences of childhood sexual abuse and walk with the reader along the path towards wellness. They reflect each stage of the healing process with a clarity and beauty that is frequently painful, often hopeful and that helps the reader understand the facts and myths surrounding the experience of abuse. Triumph Over Darkness will: Provide tools for survivors of abuse. Give insight into the process of recovery. Dispel the feelings of isolation. Help the reader understand the trauma of abuse. This second addition adds special chapters for partners of survivors, a look at ritual abuse and multiple personality disorder.