The Long Shadow of Sexual Abuse: Developmental Effects across the Life Cycle by Calvin A. Colarusso

The Long Shadow of Sexual Abuse: Developmental Effects across the Life Cycle



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The Long Shadow of Sexual Abuse: Developmental Effects across the Life Cycle Calvin A. Colarusso
Language: English
Page: 203
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0765707667, 9780765707680
Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.

W.B. Yeats once wrote, 'The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.' We wish this were so. Those who perpetrate child sexual abuse—whether the lonesome and forlorn or the predatory—are the morbid and timeless contaminants of the beauty and innocence we so cherish in our children. Dr. Calvin Colarusso, the eminent psychoanalyst and pioneer in adult development, brings a passion, depth, and clarity to one of the great scourges of our era, the developmental sequelae of child sexual abuse. (Reid Meloy, PhD )

Clinical material, a developmental approach, and clearly articulated social need are integrated in this brave and disciplined work on the devastating, life-long effects of chronic childhood and adolescent sexual abuse and rape. An invaluable, if frightening contribution for which clinicians, theoreticians, social scientists, and the legal profession may well be grateful. (Peter Blos, Jr., MD )

Widely respected for his seminal contributions to the understanding of adult psychological development, Calvin Colarusso turns his attention here to the long-term effects of childhood sexual abuse. With the help of detailed, poignant, and often heart-breaking clinical material, he illustrates how normal developmental processes throughout the life span are compromised as a result of such trauma. Colarusso's orientation is unabashedly clinical and his aim is not only to lay bare the harmful consequences of abuse but also to point out that resilience, self-reliance, and tenacious pursuit of self-knowledge can evolve from it. His book is replete with clinical wisdom, evidence of caring devotion to suffering individuals, and a thoroughly humane attitude! (Salman Akhtar, MD )

Dr. Calvin Colarusso, the renowned clinician and scholar, has again demonstrated his remarkable command of the complex nuances of human development and behavior. In this exceptional and important book, he addresses the sensitive and profound topic of chronic child sexual abuse, and its effects on the victims throughout their lives. His erudition and insights are palpable as usual, but it is his compassion and humanity emanating from his writing and from his heart which make this book indispensable for those who work with the victims as children or adults and for those who are involved in justice or social policy. (Saul Levine, MD ) Calvin A. Colarusso, MD, is clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Diego and training and supervising analyst in adult and child psychoanalysis at the San Diego Psychoanalytic Institute. In the private practice of adult and child psychiatry and psychoanalysis in San Diego since 1973, Colarusso is the author of fifty professional articles and five books on adult and child development. For the past thirty years he has served as an expert witness in civil suits, including approximately one hundred cases related to child sexual abuse. MORE EBOOKS:
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