'Innocence Revisited – a tale in parts (memoir)' Category
I have read your book
Your story has been such a gift that is precious beyond words, Cathy.
Thanks for sharing your story with me
I think it would provide a lot of hope to others as well as be a good guide (or some might say bible!) to those who may be close to someone who has experienced childhood trauma.
I want to thank you for publishing your experience -your absolute courage in putting it out there.
You have opened up my world and again, I thank you.
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Book review (published ASTSS newsletter April 2011)
The book is an easy read and recommended for anyone who wishes to deal with patients
book review – professional
The author’s resultant dissociation and depression can be viewed as a coping response to serious, ongoing abuse from allegedly responsible adults who should have provided unconditional love and protection but who did not.
“Unputdownable”
Innocence Revisited: a tale in parts”, which Merinda describes as “un-put-down-able.”
Professional testimonial
I recommend that this book appear on the reading lists of all psychology students who will practice in the field of psychology
Speaking out saves lives
Doing something is far better than doing nothing it seems, as survivor Kezelman says.
‘‘I was not nurtured and protected as a child, as every child needs and deserves,’’ she says. ‘‘I had no adult to whom I could go for care; no one reported my abuse. No one helped. I was isolated and abused for a decade. It is only now that, in my mid-50s, after a lot of good care and support, I have been able to speak about what happened to me. I have worked hard to process
the effects of my abuse and put it to rest.
‘‘I have no doubt that had someone reported my abuse early on, had someone reached out to me when I was still a child, I would
not have had to go through as many years of bare bones survival. I would have learnt how to live well so much sooner.’’Review by Jennie Sattler
For anyone who loves someone who has experienced childhood trauma, Cathy’s book offers insight into the daily challenges and the extensive, ungraspable impact of childhood trauma.