Father-Daughter Incest (with a new Afterword)
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: May 5, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780674002708
Subjects: Child abuse; Family & relationships; Sexual abuse; United States; Fathers and daughters; Adult Child Sexual Abuse Victims; Family; Social Science; Sociology - Marriage & Family; Psychology; Incest; Abuse - General; Abuse - Sexual; Family Relationships; Psychology & Psychiatry / Human Sexuality; Clinical Psychology
Description: "Through an intensive clinical study of forty incest victims and numerous interviews with professionals in mental health, child protection, and law enforcement, Judith Herman develops a composite picture of the incestuous family. In a new afterword written especially for this edition, Herman offers an overview of the knowledge that has developed about incest and other forms of sexual abuse since this book was first published.

Reviewing the extensive research literature that demonstrates the validity of incest survivors' sometimes repressed and recovered memories, she convincingly challenges the rhetoric and methods of the backlash movement against incest survivors, and the concerted attempt to deny the events they find the courage to describe."--BOOK JACKET.