The Healing Choice: Your Guide to Emotional Recovery After an Abortion

by Dana Dovitch and Candace De Puy

Book Overview

Two psychotherapists present a supportive guide to coping with the emotional and psychological aftermath of abortion, offering a step-by-step program that combines information, reassurance, and guidance to help women begin the process of recovery. "This is a book for any women who feels psychological pain from her abortion...this is not a book about judgment, politics, or religion." -from the authors' introduction Few women can walk away from the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684831961
• ISBN13: 9780684831961
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Touchstone Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Blessed Be, we are not alone! (Great book!)

Free at last, free at last... from the pain and emotional turmoil that having an abortion has put me through. Thanks to this book, psychotherapy, and afterabortion.com, I have been able to heal. Contrary to other reviews "getting over" an abortion is not as easy as you think. If you need this book, it means that you are human and REAL with real feelings, regrets, or dissapointments. This book guides you through exercises that lead to emotional recovery and restructuring that therapy alone could not do. A ***MUST HAVE*** for anyone who has had an abortion!

Good Book

This is a good book on emotional recovery after an abortion. I was helped by the book. I also derived an extreme amount of comfort from the book An Encounter with a Prophet. Althougt the latter book deals with much more than recovery after an abortion it was most helpful to me and I hope it helps you to.

The Healing Choice: Your Guide to Emotional Recovery After

This is a comprehensive book that speaks to women in all circumstances who have had an abortion and explores every emotion involved -- demonstrating ways to deal with each emotion, that feeling the emotion is "normal", and giving evidence that although women struggle alone to deal with their abortion-- they aren't alone in that its a complicated healing process that many women have experienced if not shared. I wish I had known about this book before my procedure so I had some idea of what I was in store for-- it makes sense of the struggle to deal with it both before and after the fact. As far as I'm concerned, it should be recommended by all professionals whose patients have had abortions.

Excellent book for dealing with the pain of abortion...

Any woman who has had an abortion should read this book! After burying my pain for 8 months, deep depression set in. It was only after reading this book and coming to terms with my feelings that my depression began to subside.

A wonderful reading experience and a great service...

This book's title belies the even-handed approach the authors take with an often difficult topic. The book's rich anecdotes and tactical, forward-thinking perspective renders it more than interesting reading: the book is a tool that can be used by women who have had abortions and the men who support them. The Healing Choice should be required reading for hospital and clinic staffs, psychotherapists, and medical school students who need to better understand what follows the termination of a pregnancy. At the end of the day, this book is not about abortion, it's about the process of mending.