Book Jewel of the Month: Healing from Incest (Henderson and Emerton)
What is a book jewel? A sometimes-overlooked book with remarkable insight and potential significance. Each month, we share near-daily, or as often as possible, reviews of the monthly book jewel - short, succinct reviews that can be read in 1-2 minutes with links to the reviewer by reviewers whose words are worthy of being heard and whose opinions are worthy of being considered. Sometimes a couple of minutes contains more impressive thought than ten times that many. We will let you decide that.
This month's book jewel is Healing from Incest by Geri Henderson and Seanne Emerton.
Description:
In speaking about Healing from Incest, Susan J. Lewis, Ph.D., J.D., Healing writes: “"Brave, profound, touching, healing. This well-written, honest book takes the reader inside the complexities of the therapeutic healing process from the patient and therapist's unique perspective. It is the story of hard work, hope, commitment and recovery!" Healing from Incest tells the journey of a victim-turned-survivor, working with her therapist to find healing. Readers are pulled into the therapeutic process as Henderson relates her conversations and feelings as a victim of child abuse and Emerton interprets those feelings and describes interventions. For those who recognize this as their own story, this frank and genuine narrative will be reassuring in its descriptions of one woman's journey toward hope and healing. About the front cover: kintsukuroi(n.) (v. phr.) "to repair with gold"; the art of repairing pottery with gold or silver lacquer and understanding that the piece is more beautiful for having been broken.
Library Thing review by beachman43 -
When I saw this book was only 188 pages, I thought, wow, I'll just zoom through it. No way.As a sexual abuse survivor (biological father) myself, I thought I could have some insight into Geri's journey. And at first I was put off by the way the dialogue went back and forth between Geri and her previous therapist, Seanne. But as the book went on, and Geri began talking about tough issues, having that voice of reason (therapist) was actually really helpful. I'm sure all abuse survivors can see parts of themselves in Geri -- I definitely did (meaning after certain chapters I had to put the book down for a while). There are parts of her story that frustrate me, parts I cheer, parts I feel empathetic about.
Finalist, Book of the Year Award
Book Excellence Award
For more posts about Geri and Seanne and their book, click HERE.
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