By Richard B. Gartner
Healing Sexually Betrayed males and Boys: remedy for Sexual Abuse, attack, and Trauma is the hot authoritative resource for remedy of sexually victimized men and boys. Male sufferers and survivors of sexual trauma lived in shadow till the flip of the 21st century, while scandal after scandal in regards to the sexual abuse of boys and males make clear their pain. those males and boys require assorted therapy roadmaps than their girl opposite numbers. but there's little within the specialist literature to aid a clinician paintings with sexually traumatized boys and males.
Richard B. Gartner is a pro psychologist/psychoanalyst who has labored therapeutically with sexually abused males for over 3 a long time. he's a clinician, suggest, instructor, lecturer, and nationally and the world over well-known professional at the topic. Dr. Gartner’s vintage e-book, Betrayed as Boys: Psychodynamic therapy of Sexually Abused Men, is among the few written to steer clinicians. Now, approximately twenty years after writing that groundbreaking quantity, he follows up on his previous paintings. Healing Sexually Abused males and Boys, together with its spouse quantity, Understanding the Sexual Betrayal of Boys and Men, is an intensive, finished consultant to studying approximately and therapeutic male sufferers and survivors.
Dr. Gartner has invited a bunch of specialists to put in writing approximately particular difficulties confronted through those boys and males. experts from the psychoanalytic, psychodynamic, trauma, and felony worlds fill within the information about quite a lot of interconnected matters relating to the complicated reverberations of male sexual trauma. Healing Sexually Betrayed males and Boys covers such assorted subject matters as:
- therapy with younger sexually traumatized boys;
- the aftermath for males who have been raped as adults ;
- covert seduction of boys and its aftereffects;
- treatment for substance addictions and sexual compulsions;
- couples paintings with male survivors and their companions or spouses;
- bodywork with male survivors;
- treatment for male veterans who suffered sexual trauma within the military;
- profiling sexual predators and dealing with survivors who've additionally been sexual predators.
This booklet is a precious source for clinicians at each point of educating. With ideas for the way survivors can construct help networks and outlines of medical, familial, and community-based remedies, Healing Sexually Betrayed males and Boys is key interpreting for clinicians of all theoretical persuasions who paintings with male sexual abuse survivors. Filling in gaps within the really scant literature at the topic, it is going to additionally aid sexually abused or assaulted males themselves comprehend what's on hand to them.