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Francis Verity, Education Consultant.

28th April 2008

 

 Morven Fyfe has produced a work that should go a long way to increase our understanding of the thorny subject of child abuse. While no longer strictly taboo, this is a subject that few people feel comfortable even contemplating, never mind discussing. With a painstaking approach to the subject based on case studies, she eases us into a more complete awareness of the widespread nature of this phenomenon, and its effects.

  Calling upon her own knowledge, dexterity and sympathy she explores ways in which professionals and other interested parties collude unwittingly, through their overall lack of vision and ability to work effectively together, in compounding what is already a human tragedy.
 She goes easy on the reader. She never condemns, but argues effectively that this is a problem for us all. Within a soft velvet glove, her arguments are as strong as steel.    

   

Dr Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Author, Lecturer, Animal Rights activist. “... I am very impressed with what you have achieved here ...
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 ... Most importantly she illustrates through the case studies how survivors use their resilience, skills and intelligence to become mature, successful adults - seemingly against the odds.
  This is not a book you should expect to read cover to cover – it can be read in separate sections. It’s for anyone who really wants to understand more about some of the most chequered aspects of human existence - for them it is a book that can be highly recommended.
  ... The book therefore provides not only moving first person accounts but the chance for the reader to be actively involved in creating their own story.
  Our human difficulties in dealing with the reality of trauma have always existed and sadly will continue.
  However, books that unpack secrecy, like this, aid our task to confront the reality of secret trauma.

 Dr Valerie Sinason