Hours of Torture Years of Silence: My Soul Was The Scene of The Crime

by Teresa Lauer

Hours of Torture, Years of Silence shares a victim's strength and courage and how you can bring that to your own recovery.In this incredibly honest book you're transported into the middle of a crime scene with a young girl in a home on a fog-shrouded street in San Francisco.An escape 14 hours later from a kidnapper's house, began an incredible journey of recovery that will inspire and encourage you through your own recovery. That girl was me.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0966207807
• ISBN13: 9780966207804
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: RapeRecovery.com
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A second Chance

Teresa continues to inspire me, this is the second time I read this book, and I am nothing short of amazed at her courage and strength. This book outlines and details some of the most traumaticexperiences anyone should never have to endure and yet she is blessed with a hopefullness that we can only aspire to. Teresa, your gift are your words.

Everyone Should Read This Book

In this book, Teresa Lauer shares the story of her brutal rape and torture, the aftermath of struggling with PTSD, and her struggle to achieve some kind of peace and equanimity in her life. The fact that she eventually triumphs over the horrific violence she experienced is inspiring, and a testament to the strength of the human spirit. Teresa's honesty about her feelings and struggles will be especially reassuring to other rape survivors - as a victim of sexual assault myself, I highly recommend this book to anyone with a similar experience, or to anyone who wants to know the real truth about rape, and the toll it takes on a woman's life.

A Time of Healing from PTSD

When I found this book, I was first of all amazed that this author would be able to write her experience in the fullness she could, to reach inside and be able to describe what torture and pain "felt" like. I had dicovered my own torture at the age of 18, and even though I had been seeing a Psychologist for a year, I found strength and compassion for myself and others who have had to experience such a personal crime. Teresa helped me find within myself a new pathway of healing. Her abilities of expression in writing, as well as her description of the torture and what it did to her, were frightening, yet she caused me to go on, instead of turn inside. A picture of her own healing is portrayed, giving others the strength to go on. A book that turned my entire life around, and even though the journey is not easy by all means, it gave me determination and a resource to view when I wanted to quit.Thank you to this author, her beautiful ability to write, and to write about a subject many would turn away due to their own fear. This nation, as well as the world, need to realize these types of events happen each day and many either go on, or if help is not found, commit suicide, due to the lack of society to understand or for them to close their eyes to the evils of some in the societies of our world.A must read for not only those of rape, violence, and torture, but as well, for clinicians who practice Psychology in helping survivors heal.

Helpful recovery tool

I bought this book for my girlfriend to help her find ways to recover from a very brutual attack that occurred when she was much younger. This book was very effective for her because it paralleled her experience: a prolonged assault involving extensive contact with her attacker. In addition, it addressed the Post Tramautic Stress Disorder (PTSD) problems she has been encountering as a result of the attack.If someone you love has suffered from an attack, books like this can help both you and them understand what has happened and how they might be feeling. My girlfriend had trouble articulating her feelings about the attack and this book (and others) helped her overcome her difficulties and express herself.

A true and moving story from the heart

In Hours of Torture, Years of Silence, Teresa tells a story of the horror and betrayal. A story of 14 horrific hours where she was the attention of an animal, high on drugs. The brutality and loneliness of her story and survival instincts allowed her to escape and live her life, in pain. The book draws you in as if you are in the house, the room, with her. You feel the anxiety, terror, pain, and humiliation that a victim of rape feels. When she escapes from the clutches of death you escape with her. Very powerful and moving true story. This book will help people understand what a victim of rape has gone through.