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The Healing Choice: Your Guide to Emotional Recovery After an Abortion »

Book cover image of The Healing Choice: Your Guide to Emotional Recovery After an Abortion by Candace De puy

Authors: Candace De puy, Dana Dovitch
ISBN-13: 9780684831961, ISBN-10: 0684831961
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
Date Published: March 1997
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Candace De puy

Book Synopsis

Few women can walk away from the experience of abortion without some lingering emotional discomfort. Unresolved feelings of guilt, shame, and sadness may not surface until months, often years, after an abortion. These feelings, if ignored, can possibly manifest themselves in more troubling ways, resulting in unstable relationships, self-destructive and addictive behaviors, depression, and low self-esteem. Now, two experienced psychotherapists share their approach to dealing with the sensitive and long-overlooked issue of post-abortion pain or trauma. The Healing Choice breaks the silence surrounding a topic often clouded by debate and focuses exclusively on helping women chart a path toward emotional recovery. Through a step-by-step process, complete with self-tests, exercises, and interviews with women who share their own post-abortion experiences, Dr. Candance De Puy and Dr. Dana Dovitch will help you come to terms with your post-abortion emotions and offer support a you begin the process of healing.

Table of Contents

Introduction13
Ch. 1The Pregnancy23
Ch. 2The Abortion43
Ch. 3Separation, Solitude and Isolation63
Ch. 4Guilt87
Ch. 5Anger111
Ch. 6Spirituality and Religion134
Ch. 7Facing Loss159
Ch. 8The Process of Healing183
Ch. 9Acceptance206
Selected Bibliography217
Appendices219
Index231

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