A Man's Recovery from Traumatic Childhood Abuse: The Insiders »

Break the silence about male victims of incest and sexual abuse!

The pseudonymous author of A Man's Recovery from Traumatic Childhood Abuse: The Insiders had everything a man could want: intelligence, physical strength, financial security, close friends, a loving girlfriend, a home in the most beautiful part of California. But he also had mysterious physical pains, a bisexual father who had been beaten to death in an unsolved murder, a mother who was always ailing, a brother who had been killed in a car accident on the way to his eighteenth birthday party. And a sense that all these facts were somehow connected, that there was a secret story that would link everything together.

He also had the Insiders. These subpersonalities knew the story. They kept the secrets and held the pain. As he went through therapy, they emerged, told their stories, and helped him face the brutal, ongoing sexual abuse by his parents that had made his childhood a nightmare of terror, shame, and pain.

Few male survivors of sexual abuse have spoken out to tell their stories. A Man's Recovery from Traumatic Childhood Abuse breaks the silence. Because the author is a trained therapist as well as a survivor, he weaves psychological theory with the biographical material. This unique dual view allows emotional and intellectual comprehension to develop in parallel.

A Man's Recovery from Traumatic Childhood Abuse also discusses essential concepts in understanding abuse survivors, including:

• inflating versus deflating abuse
• the emotional triangle of fear, sadness, and anger
• post-traumatic decline
• attachment disorders
• repressed, recovered, narrative, and procedural memory
• somatization
• dissociation, ego states, and subpersonalities

This passionately honest book is a unique resource for therapists, abuse survivors, and the people who love them. You will never forget A Man's Recovery from Traumatic Childhood Abuse or the brave man who dared to tell the truth about sadistic sexual abuse.

Booknews

While recounting the journey of his healing from incest as a child, Knight sometimes sets aside his personal narrative and draws on his training as a psychotherapist to interpret and evaluate various theories on trauma and recovery, memory and personality. He is helped by Mark Falstein, a veteran ghost writer in business, professional, and self-help. There is no index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	Foreword
	Preface
Ch. 1	Robert: A Proposition from My Inner Child: June-October 1987	1
Ch. 2	Young One, Honey, Dream Woman, and Bear: Memories Are Made of This: November 1987-February 1988	19
Ch. 3	Child Abuse and Its Discontents: March-May 1988	35
Ch. 4	Anger, Despair, Self-Hate, Binges: June-November 1988	53
Ch. 5	My Man-of-Anger Takes Charge: November 1988-April 1989	69
Ch. 6	Sex Rears Several of Its Heads: April-August 1989	91
Ch. 7	Earthquakes, Within and Without: September-November 1989	111
Ch. 8	Q: The Memory of Pain: December 1989-April 1990	129
Ch. 9	Frankie: Befriending the Monster: May-October 1990	147
Ch. 10	Male at Risk: October 1990-April 1991	169
Ch. 11	The "Oh, No!" Experience: May-November 1991	191
Ch. 12	The Cost of Denial: December 1991-May 1992	209
Ch. 13	Disintegration: June-September 1992	229
Ch. 14	Healing: September-December 1992	249
Ch. 15	Burning Mom: January-May 1993	265
	Postscript	291
	Bibliography	297