Abuse category: 3108 books
The Stranger in My Bed
Breaking the Cycle of Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
South Lyon was a tiny, quaint town where everyone knew everyone else and their business. So what went on behind closed doors stayed behind closed doors. Author Patricia Garcia was a terrible student. She had a very hard time grasping what the teacher was trying to get across to her in class. When...
Narrative Therapy for Women Experiencing Domestic Violence
Supporting Women's Transitions from Abuse to Safety
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
For women experiencing domestic violence, narrative therapy can be a powerful tool to help them gain self-confidence and a sense of identity, resist violence, and make the transition from abuse to safety.
Drawing on the narratives of women who have experienced domestic violence, this book explores...
Blame Changer
Understanding domestic violence
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Blame Changer by psychologist Carmel O’Brien, former head of Clinical Services at Victoria’s Doncare, provides straight forward answers to common questions and aims to debunk pervasive myths around what Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull last year called “one of Australia’s greatest shames”:...
Life After Abuse
A Gentle Guide to Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
This book is specifically designed to meet the needs of women who have found the courage to leave an abusive relationship but find themselves struggling to reclaim their power. Once a victim of abuse finds the courage to physically move away from her offender, the next logical, but a sometimes overwhelming...
by Danielle Gallant Simms
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Someone living in an abusive situation has to endure not only fear and physical pain but also feelings of isolation, shame, and hopelessness. Why is this happening? Why doesn’t he just leave? I can’t let anyone know what’s really going on. Danielle Gallant Simms, author of Living Past Being a Victim,...
Battered Existence
An Abused Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Child sexual abuse is not something we have not heard of. In fact, many of us must have encountered it too. It is extremely difficult to acknowledge that sexual abuse of children happens every day in all sections, castes and educational backgrounds of our society. Samira and Kajri- two little girls...
Crave
Sojourn of a Hungry Soul
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Crave is a coming-of-age memoir that chronicles a young girl's journey through abuse and impoverishment. The effusive narration descends into the depths of personal and sexual degradation, perpetual hunger for food, safety and survival. While moving through gritty exposés of poverty, abuse, and starvation,...
Raped in the House of God
The Murder of My Soul
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2004
Raped in the House of God is an invaluable resource for anyone trying to understand the lifetime effects sexual abuse by priests has on a person's life.
Author Jim Parker tells his story of soul murder and his ongoing journey of recovery. His story recounts not only the immediate catastrophic...
I Have To Call Someone Mama
A Grandmother's Story of Two Siblings Rescued from Munchausen by Proxy Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Her grandson was literally on the brink of death’s door. From as early as one month old, he was gravely ill with one illness after another. By the time he was three years old, he had been hospitalized more times than she could count. He would get better and then suddenly relapse with no reasonable...
by Liberty Jones
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
This book will take you on a journey of love-abuse-love, repeating the cycle over and over, each time showing creative ways to survive and finally escape. I wrote this book to help people gain an understanding about domestic violence after hearing from many people, I would never let this happen to...
Shame Borne in Silence
Spouse Abuse in the Jewish Community
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Providing a religious lens on the topic, this book directly addresses the problem of spousal abuse in the Jewish community, in hopes of confronting the truth and taking definitive steps to end this violation of all that Judaism stands for. A leading rabbi and psychiatrist reveals with striking candor,...
Abused Part 2
The Addiction Years
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
This is the second of 3 books covering my life of abuse. This book covers the years of addiction i have had due to the abuse i suffered in my childhood. This is a frank and graphic story intended to provoke conversation and change and is not for the faint hearted. It tells a stroy of drug and alcohol...
by Jacob Yervan
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
This book starts with the early years and gives account of the roller-coaster ride that was my life. As a young adult, I accomplished good and bad certifications as a result of the madness that befell me. It tells the story of the physical and psychological abuse I suffered as a child and how I was...
by Ann Lapp- Haught
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
This is the author's true life story that begins as a child with no "constants" in her life. She was bounced around from boarding home to boarding home and from one relative to another, missing her mother desperately. She was the victim of extreme sexual and physical abuse at the hands of...