The Courage to Heal
The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (German: Despite everything - have learned ways of self-healing for women, sexual violence ) is a popular self-help book for people (especially women), sexual violence have experienced. The authors are Ellen Bass (a feminist activist) and Laura Davis (an incest survivor ).
Bass and Davies see a range of physical symptoms (such as inexplicable pain) and emotional symptoms (such as inexplicable fears, self-harming behavior) as indicators of sexual abuse. This trauma is suppressed and the symptoms are a consequence of it. With self-help techniques described in detail by the authors, the memory of the trauma should be brought back to consciousness. So healing is possible.
criticism
The book was criticized by the False Memory Foundation , among others : there is a risk that the recovered memory technology will generate false memories .
See also
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^ Elliot Aronson , Carol Tavris : Mistakes were made (but not by me): why we justify foolish beliefs, bad decisions, and hurtful acts. Harcourt, San Diego 2007, ISBN 978-0-15-101098-1 , p. 121.
German edition: I am right, even if I am wrong: why we justify questionable beliefs, bad decisions and hurtful actions . Riemann Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-570-50116-0 . - ^ A. Gibbs: The reality of recovered memories. In: The Skeptic. 17 (2), pp. 21-29. ( PDF ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ).
- ^ M. Elson: Accusations of Childhood Sexual Abuse Based on Recovered Memories: A Family Survey. Australian False Memory Syndrome Association, 1998. http://www.afma.asn.au/ELSONREP1.html
