Showing titles in Child Abuse

"This book is a marvel. The Fact of a Body is equal parts gripping and haunting and will leave you questioning whether any one story can hold the full truth." -- Celeste Ng, author of the New York Times bestselling Everything I Never Told You Before Alex Marzano-Lesnevich begins a summer job at...

“In the fairy tales about father–daughter incest—‘The Girl Without Hands,’ ‘Thousand Furs,’ the original ‘Cinderella,’ ‘Donkey Skin,’ and the stories of Saint Dymphna, patron saint of incest survivors—the daughters are all as you would expect them to be: horrified by...

Bloomsbury presents Dancing with the Octopus written and read by Debora Harding. For readers of Educated and The Glass Castle, a harrowing, redemptive and profoundly inspiring memoir of childhood trauma and its long reach into adulthood, named one of the Best True Crime Books by Marie Claire...

A young girl forced to work in a Queens sweatshop calls child services on her mother in this powerful debut memoir about labor and self-worth that traces a Chinese immigrant’s journey to an American future. As a teen, Anna Qu is sent by her mother to work in her family’s garment factory in...

Her grandson was literally on the brink of death's door. From as early as one month old, he was gravely ill with one illness after another. By the time he was three years old, he had been hospitalized more times than she could count. He would get better and then suddenly relapse with no...

First published in 1894, the Jungle Book is perhaps Rudyard Kiplings most well regarded and beloved book. Containing not just the adventures of Mowgli, but also that of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and Kotick the White Seal, the Jungle Book explores themes such as fostering and of the laws of society...

Factitious Love is a powerful, survivor-centered guide to understanding, recognizing, and healing from one of the most insidious forms of child abuse-Munchausen by Proxy, also known as Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another. Written by Tammy Eady Walker, grandmother and author of I Have to Call...

Master the crucial parenting skill of teaching body safety and childhood consent without fear, awkwardness, or anxiety. Whether you are navigating busy family routines or guiding a classroom, this reassuring audio guide provides caregivers with the exact language needed for these essential...

Heal from childhood emotional neglect and chronic people-pleasing to finally reclaim your self-worth and inner peace. If you grew up in a home where your feelings were dismissed or ignored, you likely carry a quiet, lingering sense of emptiness and chronic shame. This compassionate mental health...

Break the exhausting cycle of childhood trauma and transform emotional abuse survival into deep psychological freedom. If you constantly battle self-blame or dread navigating holidays with toxic relatives, this compassionate, validating guide offers a direct lifeline. It is time to stop...

Stolen Childhoods: Thriving After Abuse focuses on how survivors of childhood abuse can finally break their silence and begin the process of recovery by understanding the impact their abuse history has on their adulthood. Filled with real life client conversations, along with her own experiences as a patient, this work helps listeners stop reliving past abuse and thrive in their recovery. It demonstrates the tremendous hope that can come from having a witness, and feeling heard and believed.

Tra i 7 e i 14 anni la piccola Neige viene regolarmente violentata dal suo patrigno. Nel 2000 Neige sporge denuncia e l’uomo viene condannato. Vent’anni dopo, Neige trova la forza di raccontare ciò che le è capitato. Un libro, che usa la scrittura come un martello, attraversato da una domanda: colui che ha creato l’agnello ha creato anche la tigre? Candidato al Premio Strega Europeo 2024.

Eine wahre Geschichte über Gewalt und Missbrauch in der eigenen Familie. Manchen Menschen sollte man einfach keine Kinder anvertrauen... Zur Haussklavin degradiert, später Ersatzmutter für meine fünfzehn Jahre jüngere Schwester – mein Leidensweg ist lang und qualvoll. Meine Geschichte muss an die Öffentlichkeit, damit möglichst viele erfahren, was nicht nur mir, sondern gleichzeitig vielen anderen angetan wurde. Lasst uns nicht länger schweigen. Ich bin Jasmin und dies ist meine Geschichte.

Understanding the Paradox of Surviving Childhood Trauma offers clinicians a new framework for understanding the symptoms and coping mechanisms displayed by survivors of childhood abuse. This approach considers how characteristics such as suicidality, self-harm, persistent depression, and anxiety can have roots in behaviors and beliefs that helped patients survive their trauma. This book provides practitioners with case examples, practical tips, and techniques for applying this mindset directly to their most complex cases.

Children of Coercive Control extends Evan Stark's path-breaking analysis of interpersonal violence to children, showing that coercive control is the most important cause and context of child abuse and child homicide outside a war zone, as well as of the sexual abuse, denigration, exploitation, isolation, and subordination of children. The book provides a working model of the coercive control of children and illustrates its dynamics and consequences with dramatic cases drawn from the headlines and Dr. Stark's forensic practice.

Widowed Blanche Taylor Moore was about to lose her second spouse to symptoms that mysteriously mirrored those that killed her first husband—as well as her previous boyfriend. When an investigation reveals arsenic poisoning, the hideous truth about the wife and mother comes to light. Did the abuse Blanche suffered as a child at the hands of her alcoholic father turn her into a murderer she became?

The son of a Salvadoran mother and Scotch Irish mechanic father, Marcos spent much of his life trying to break away from his Southern Appalachian past and the trauma experienced there and striving to get closer to his Salvadoran heritage. His journey includes steeping himself in the Spanish language and Latin American literature, especially the work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez; a stint in Nicaragua with Witness for Peace, followed by missionary work in Guatemala; and social-justice work with Mexican migrant farmworkers in Alabama.

Throughout this book we learn about the suffering of a baby boy, unwanted by his teenage parents. This boy grew up with an aggressive and womanizing father that constantly reminded him that he was a mistake that ruined his father's life. While been beaten and mentally abused, all he craved from his parents was love but received nothing but humiliation and sufferance from his father. This caused detrimental trauma to the young boy, and he grew up believing that he would not achieve anything in life. I was this little boy, and this is my story.

With poignant prose and a deeply authentic personal story, this harrowing account exposes the stark and painful realities of childhood abuse, painting a heart-breaking picture of the lasting pain and fear that it inflicts on its victims. Spanning 30 years, in this coming-of-age memoir, author Christina Vitagliano recounts in vivid detail the frightening nights spent when her father loomed in the doorway of her bedroom, along with the psychological toll that the relentless familial abuse took on her psyche.

“It was like going through a door which had been locked all my life. I had walked past it every single day, afraid to even rattle the handle. Now I was smashing the locks, I was wrenching it from the hinges, and I was marching through. Here I am!" A woman whose mother twice tried to kill her...