Confronting the Victim Role: Healing from an Abusive Childhood

by Emily J. McCarthy and Barry W. McCarthy

Written in a comprehensive and sensible manner, this book offers a new approach to the controversial subject of adults who were abused as children. The traditional approach to childhood abuse was to deny and minimize. The last decade has seen a spate of books that glorify the victim role and encourage people to identify themselves as adult children of alcoholics, incest, violence, or dysfunctional families. Confronting the Victim Role offers information,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786700114
• ISBN13: 9780786700110
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Good Start For Abuse Survivors

If you're looking to get out of the victim role or understand someone close to you who's in that role, this book is a great starter. It explains how people get into that role, which, in turn, is a repetitive downward spiral into a bleak existance. A good find.