Sexual Abuse by Health Professionals: A Personal Search for Meaning and Healing

by P. Susan Penfold and Susan Penfold

The author of this book is a psychiatrist, and the survivor of sexual and emotional abuse by her first psychotherapist, also a psychiatrist. Penfold employs two voices in the writing of her book: the first, which starts each chapter, is that of the victim of abuse telling her own story; the second is that of the survivor and professional on her journey towards understanding the meaning of the abuse and how to heal from it. This voyage of discovery...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802042694
• ISBN13: 9780802042699
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher