Description
This book is about the influence of twenty years of work in the field of incest on a therapist's professional and personal life. It is comprised of individual cases, and touches upon topics including spirituality, sex between siblings, counter-transference, and incest teams. The author shares, in unadulterated prose, her experience as an incest therapist. This important, courageous work touches upon issues important to and resonant for mental health professionals treating incest and sexual abuse as well as the incest survivor or survivor's family member.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Ricky Still Loves Lulu
2. Isabella
3. The Sins of the Fathers Are Visited Upon the Daughters
4. Laying Down with the Offender
5."To My Haunting Ophelia, Who Brings Me to My Knees - Tie My Hands": On Esthetics, Art, and Spontaneous Weeping
6. On Siblings and Sex
7. The Therapist with Child: Transference and Counter-transference Ad Nauseum
8. On Finding a Voice
9. Falling From Grace
10. Spank Me: On Sex and the Unthinkable
11. From Field to Administration
12. Pockets of Compassion - When Mine are Empty
