CSA RESOURCES
Whether you’re a CSA (child sexual abuse) survivor or, though not a survivor, wish to educate yourself and support efforts aimed at helping survivors recover from the effects of their abuse and at decreasing CSA incident rates, I hope you’ll find the following resources, all of which I’ve found to be personally beneficial, and which seem to me potentially helpful to others, in one way or another.
(Regarding Requests for Listing on this Page:
From time to time, I receive requests, typically from addiction rehabilitation programs, for listing on this page. I’m sorry that I’m unable to consider or otherwise respond to such requests due, quite simply, to a lack of available time for evaluating the programs, materials, etc. connected with such requests. My best wishes to any individual or program seeking to provide effective assistance to CSA survivors.)
Websites / Blogs:
RAINN (Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network)
missamericabyday.com (Marilyn Van Derbur’s website)
amaze
(From their https://amaze.org/what-is-amaze/ page:
“AMAZE envisions a world that recognizes child and adolescent sexual development as natural and healthy, a world in which young people everywhere are supported and affirmed and the adults in their lives communicate openly and honestly with them about puberty, reproduction, relationships, sex and sexuality. In such a world, young people across the globe would have access to the information and support they need to develop into sexually healthy adults.”)
Books:
(For simplicity – not to favor one bookseller over another – links are for the Amazon Kindle edition unless no Kindle edition existed at the time I checked, in which case a link is given to a printed edition on Amazon.)
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
by Robert Sapolsky (Behave includes, among much additional, equally fascinating content, detailed explanations of and references to the copious research validating the effects of childhood trauma, including CSA, on human brain development and behavior into adulthood. Another of its many points of focus is how, through the nature-nurture – or nurture-nature – bridge of epigenetics, childhood trauma can affect genetic predispositions in the DNA of survivors’ progeny.)
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The Courage to Heal
by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis (a book that helped me tremendously in the initial years of my recovery)
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Come Here: A Man Overcomes the Tragic Aftermath of Childhood Sexual Abuse
by Richard Berendzen
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Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest For Truth, Authenticity, and the Perfect Knuckleball
by R.A. Dickey
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Tiger, Tiger: A Memoir
by Margaux Fragoso
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Betrayed as Boys: Psychodynamic Treatment of Sexually Abused Men
by Richard B. Gartner
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Beyond Betrayal: Taking Charge of Your Life After Boyhood Sexual Abuse
by Richard B. Gartner
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Mysterious Skin
by Scott Heim
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Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence–from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
by Judith Herman
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Victims No Longer: The Classic Guide for Men Recovering from Sexual Child Abuse
by Mike Lew
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Thou Shalt Not Be Aware
by Alice Miller
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In My Father’s Arms: A Son’s Story of Sexual Abuse
by Walter de Milly
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Never Let Me Go
by Chuck Rosenthal
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The River of Forgetting – A Memoir of Healing from Sexual Abuse
by Jane Rowan
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Miss America By Day: Lessons Learned from Ultimate Betrayals and Unconditional Love
by Marilyn Van Derbur
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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
by Bessel Van Der Kolk
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