Recommended Reading for Child Sexual Abuse Survivors and their Family & Friends

In our library, you will find a curated assortment of books recommended by our child sexual abuse survivors community. Books include various paths to healing from child sexual abuse, plus resources for therapists, spouses, family and friends, and a collection of memoirs from our survivor community authors.

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Embodying Healing: Integrating Bodywork and Psychotherapy in Recovery from Childhood Sexual Abuse

Embodying Healing: Integrating Bodywork and Psychotherapy in Recovery from Childhood Sexual Abuse

Patrick Connors, Robert Timms

Tags: alternative therapies, for therapists

Book by Timms, Robert, Connors, Patrick

Father-Daughter Incest (with a new Afterword)

Father-Daughter Incest (with a new Afterword)

Judith Lewis Herman

Tags: for therapists

Through an intensive clinical study of forty incest victims and numerous interviews with professionals in mental health, child protection, and law enforcement, Judith Herman develops…

Female Sexual Abuse of Children: The Ultimate Taboo

Female Sexual Abuse of Children: The Ultimate Taboo

Tags: for therapists

This volume is a testimony of survivors and of the professionals who worked with them and with abusers, which bears witness to sexual abuse of…

Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings

Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings

Michelle Knight

Tags: for survivors

The #1 New York Times Bestseller and inspirational memoir by Michelle Knight, whose survival story gripped the world and continues to inspire and offer hope.…

First Memory: Multiple Me

First Memory: Multiple Me

Sophie Miller

Genres: Books by Survivor Authors

Tags: memoir

First Memory: Multiple Me is a chronological journey of memories leading Sophie through a near-death experience, a kidnapping, an angelic intervention, numerous abuses, UFO encounters,…

From Victim To Survivor: Women Survivors Of Female Perpetrators

From Victim To Survivor: Women Survivors Of Female Perpetrators

Jill Morse, Juliann Whetsell Mitchell

Tags: for therapists

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Getting Past Your Past: Take Control of Your Life With Self-Help Techniques from EMDR Therapy

Getting Past Your Past: Take Control of Your Life With Self-Help Techniques from EMDR Therapy

Francine Shapiro Ph.D.

Tags: alternative therapies, audio, for survivors

Whether we've experienced small setbacks or major traumas, we are all influenced by memories and experiences we may not remember or don't fully understand. Getting…

Getting Through the Day: Strategies for Adults Hurt as Children

Getting Through the Day: Strategies for Adults Hurt as Children

Nancy J. Napier

Tags: for survivors, healing CSA

Early abuse can have a profound effect on adult life, especially when survivors struggle with dissociative responses, which range from "trancing out" under stress to…

Good Grief: 50th Anniversary Edition

Good Grief: 50th Anniversary Edition

Granger E. Westberg

Tags: audio, for survivors

For fifty years Good Grief has helped millions of readers, including NFL players and a former first lady, find comfort and rediscover hope after loss.…

Good Pictures Bad Pictures Jr.: A Simple Plan to Protect Young Minds

Good Pictures Bad Pictures Jr.: A Simple Plan to Protect Young Minds

Kristen A. Jenson

Tags: CSA prevention, for children

Young children deserve to be armed early against internet dangers. Good Pictures Bad Pictures Jr. makes it easy for parents to protect their young kids…

Good Pictures Bad Pictures: Porn-Proofing Today's Young Kids

Good Pictures Bad Pictures: Porn-Proofing Today's Young Kids

Kristen A. Jenson

Tags: CSA prevention, for children

Want a natural and comfortable way to talk to your kids about pornography? This newly revised edition of the original bestseller makes that daunting discussion…