Soul Murder: The Effects of Childhood Abuse and Deprivation
"[Soul Murder] should be required reading for all who are interested in the well-being of the world's children .... [Shengold's] manner is always respectful, dignified, and compassionate, and readers will find insights that are immediately useful in helping unravel the mysteries of their own, or another's behavior. This landmark work will do much to help those who need to heal"Louise DeSalvoAuthor of Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Her Life and Work"Leonard Shengold is one of the most civilized and humane of contemporary psychoanalytic writers .... Soul Murder is a work of great intellectual rigor and moral beauty"Janet MalcolmAuthor of In the Freud Archives"A densely documented, multifaceted book... Perceptive, evocative, original." The Kirkus Reviews