Father-Daughter Incest: With a New Afterword

Through an intensive clinical study of forty incest victims and numerous interviews with professionals in mental health, child protection, and law enforcement, Judith Herman develops a composite picture of the incestuous family. In a new afterword, Herman offers a lucid and thorough overview of the knowledge that has developed about incest and other forms of sexual abuse since this book was first published.

Reviewing the extensive research literature that demonstrates the validity of incest survivors' sometimes repressed and recovered memories, she convincingly challenges the rhetoric and methods of the backlash movement against incest survivors, and the concerted attempt to deny the events they find the courage to describe.

Author: Judith Lewis Herman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 05/05/2000
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.12w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780674002708

About the Author
Herman, Judith Lewis: - Judith Lewis Herman, M.D., is Psychiatric Director of the Women's Mental Health Collective, Cambridge, Massachusetts.