Title: Naming the shadows : a new approach to individual and group psychotherapy for adult survivors of childhood incest /
Authors: Roth, Susan, 1948-; Batson, Ronald
Publisher: Free Press,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Adult; Psychotherapy, Group; Psychotherapy; Incest; Incest victims Rehabilitation; Psychotherapy; Adult child sexual abuse victims Rehabilitation; Group psychotherapy
Abstract: Although numerous books have been written about childhood incest and trauma, until now none of them has combined the best of what scientific psychology has to offer with detailed representation and narrative about the ways that childhood sexual trauma within the family context affects the lives of adult survivors. Naming the Shadows is the first book to offer practitioners and students-in-training an in-depth exploration of a trauma-focused approach to individual and group psychotherapy that respects scientific rules of evidence and at the same time attempts to honor the complexity and subjectivity of an individual survivor's experience. Roth and Batson, psychologist and psychiatrist, respectively, with many years of expertise in treating survivors of sexual trauma, explain how targets of treatment are conceptualized as identity and relational issues that derive from an enduring adaptation to childhood trauma.
Contents: Special considerations in treating incest survivors -- Individual and group psychotherapy for incest survivors -- A self-study of therapeutic efficacy -- The evolution of trauma-focused work in the individual and group settings -- Ceci's first three months in individual therapy -- Case narratives from the group work.