Abuse category: 3108 books

Katie meets David and falls in love. She moves in with him, but the relationship turns difficult and dangerous when David begins to steal her money and hurt her. Katie quickly gets help through her GP. After a stay in a refuge, Katie begins a new life with a new sense of confidence. Domestic abuse...

“A Woman’s Fear” is a book that explores the truth regarding female abuse. It includes, Emotional, physical, sexual, and verbal abuse. There is also a discussion on child abuse and sex trafficking. Every story in this book is true. A Woman’s Fear is a combination of experiences during my 30+...

When Time Stood Still, perhaps the first book that presents a "living picture" of the effective use of creative art therapy in treating child sexual abuse, will help professionals to better understand the uniqueness of this abuse, the resulting trauma, and the healing process. The therapeutic...

Within intimate relationships, abuse is the furthest thing from one's mind. After meeting the man of her dreams and saying, "I do," one woman realizes her lover's modus operandi is to gain ultimate power and control over her life by utilizing malicious patterns of verbal, emotional, financial...

When eleven-year-old Emily is sent to stay with her grandparents in Wales for the summer holidays, she thinks it's all going to be one big adventure.  But Emily's grandad, the undisputed head of the family, the most respected man in town, has a dark and wicked side. And her life is about to...

This intrepid memoir tracks sexual harassment and sexual abuse in the life of a veteran American journalist. It also describes the long and ultimately successful psychotherapy the author undertook to heal. The Long Half-Lives of Love and Trauma “invents its own genre,” wrote Sherry Turkle. “The...

Healing in the Hurting Places is a personal experience story and outreach for victims of childhood sexual abuse, and those who want to help them. It sensitively focuses on the healing journey—how to recognize symptoms of abuse and offer help. Victims often feel alone, they don’t know where...

Child abuse,physical or emotional, creates long term negative effects. It is not just about the hit or the unkind words at the time - underneath there is damage to a child's self esteem. It is easy to bully a child. It is even easier to hit them with hands, sticks, canes, pokers, hairbrushes, and...

VICTIMS NO LONGER was the first book written specifically for non-offending adult male survivors of incest and other  sexual child abuse, rape, physical violence, emotional abuse, abandonment and neglect.   It offers hope and encouragement to these  courageous men and those who love them - partners,...

A timely reference that addresses the unique issues of gay men in recovery. Winner of the 2012 Independent Book Publishers Association Benjamin Franklin Award -- GLBT Category! Gay Men and Substance Abuse fills a tremendous void, serving as a valuable resource for gay men, professionals, concerned...

Often excused by parents as `kids will be kids' behaviour, sibling abuse remains largely unrecognized. Symptoms of such abuse and its devastating effects on victims go undetected, victims do not receive appropriate therapeutic intervention, and transgressors do not come to the attention of the courts. The...

The shocking first true account from one of the young girls who lived through and survived the Rotherham sex abuse scandal. In the summer of 2014, the Rotherham sex abuse scandal sent shockwaves through the nation. A report revealed that, since the 1990s, up to 1,400 young girls in the town had been...

This is a true story (my story) written to prove that healing is possible for all Victims of abuse; for an abuser, forgiveness can also be found if they admit their crime and ask to be forgiven. This book is not a plea for sympathy. My goal is awareness and anger. Yours and mine at the chain of injustice...

child sexual abuse and incest are forms of emotional wounds that need to be healed. this book is part of the little book series of emotional health for emotional wealth. it gives readers information about the nature of abuse and what they can do to help themselves change the long term negative effects of the abuse.