Carol Boulware, MFT, Ph.D.
ABS Board Certified Sex Therapist -- Clinical Fellow, American Academy of Clinical Sexologists
Los Angeles - Santa Monica & Redondo Beach, California
Certified Sex Therapist treats sexuality, sexual problems, sexual dysfunctions, sexual anxiety, loss of sexual desire, inhibitied sexual desire, premature ejaculation, impotence, sexual traumas, PTSD, sexual abuse from childhood. Marriage counseling and relationship counseling. Intimacy and communication skills. Dr. Boulware has over 20 years counseling & psychology experience. Certified EMDR Therapist and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner.
Survivors of Sexual Abuse & Incest Books
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Books for Healing from Sexual Abuse
Beginning to Heal:
A First Book for Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
by Ellen Bass, Laura Davis
If you feel you are not ready for the intensity and scope of other sexual recovery books here, read this first. It is a basic, easy to read, introduction to the recovery process
The Courage to Heal:
A guide for women survivors of child sexual abuse
by Bass, Ellen and Laura Davis
The Right to Innocence:
Healing the Trauma of Childhood Sexual Abuse
by Beverly Engel.
A therapist who has worked with sexual abuse and who has suffered sexual abuse herself presents a well written and practical book for survivors. There are helpful visualizations and exercises. I also recommend this books as starting place.
Outgrowing the Pain -
A Book About Adults Abused As Children
by Eliana Gil
Families in Recovery:
Working Together to Heal the Damage of Childhood Sexual Abuse
by Beverly Engel
Getting Through the Day:
Strategies for Adults Hurt as Children
by Nancy Napier
Incest and Sexuality:
A Guide to Understanding and Healing
by Wendy Maltz, Beverly Holman (Contributor)
I Never Told Anyone:
Writings by Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
by Ellen Bass, Louise Thornton
The Sexual Healing Journey:
A Guide for Survivors of Sexual Abuse
by Wendy Maltz and Carol Arian
Victims No Longer:
Men Recovering from Incest and Other Sexual Child Abuse
by Mike Lew and Ellen Bass
Abused Boys:
The Neglected Victims of Sexual Abuse
by Mic Hunter.
A psychologist examines the physical and emotional impact of abuse on its victims and the factors affecting recovery. This study explains the ways in which boys are molested and the reasons why men remain silent about it later in life. A well researched and well written book.
Speaking our truths:
Voices of courage and healing for male survivors of childhood sexual abuse
by Neal King
Victims no longer:
Men recovering from incest and other sexual child abuse
by Mike Lew
Books For Partners of Sexually Abuse Survivors:
I usually recommend one or more of the following books for the partners of sexually abused suvivors. The books help understand the psychological and emotional behaviors of a survivor and answers the questions so often asked by partners. I also may suggest them for men and women who are themselves victims of sexual abuse.
Ghosts in the Bedroom:
A Guide for Partners of Incest Survivors
by Ken Graber.
Partners in Recovery:
How Mates, Lovers & Other Prosurvivors Can Learn to Support & Cope With Adult Survivors of
Childhood Sexual Abuse
by Beverly Engel
Allies in Healing:
When the Person You Love Was Sexually Abused as a child, as Support Book
by Laura Davis
How can I help her?
A handbook for partners of women sexually abused as children
by Joan Spear
Books for Professionals:
EMDR in the Treatment
of Adults Abused As Children
by Laurel Parnell.
For therapist already fimiliar with EMDR, it covers primary treatment issues and symptomatology of abuse suviviors with specific alterations of the standard EMDR protocol. For therapists experienced with treating abuse survivors it introduces a safe and effective way to process trauma.
Resolving sexual abuse: solution-focused therapy and ericksonian hypnosis for adult survivors by YvonneDolan
Beyond sexual abuse: Therapy with women who were childhood victims by Derek Jehu, Great Britain: John Wiley & Sons(1988).
The Sexual Healing Journey:
A Guide for Suvivors of Sexual Abuse
by Wendy Maltz, Carol Arian
Psychological Trauma and
the Adult Suvivor: Theory, Therapy and Transformation
by Lisa McCann
Trauma and the Therapist:
Contertransference and Vicarious Traumatization in Psychotherapy with Incest Survivors
by Laurie Anne Perlman
Journals, Newsletters:
Treating Abuse Today
A journal that gives information and guidance in the treatment of trauma
The Healing Woman
A non-profit orginization for women survivors of childhood sexual abuse - Newsletter
Moving Forward Online
For therapists and survivors. Newsletter on-line.
I am still in the process of adding books to this list. Come back again soon.
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