Suggested Books, Video, Audio Tapes

Childhood Sexual Abuse, Incest, Sexual Assault,

Professional Sexual Misconduct, Clergy Sexual Abuse

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Table of Contents:  

1. The Awareness Center's Brochure  

2. Books

   • Historical Perspective of Child Abuse

   • General
   • Jewish Books
   • Child Abuse General Books
   • Adoption and Foster Care Books
   • Childhood Sexual Abuse Books
   • Children's Books
   • Clergy Sexual Abuse Books
   • Clinical Books
   • Creative Art Therapies (Art Therapy, Music Therapy, Dance/Movement Therapy) - Books
   • Dating / Shidduch
   • Domestic Violence / Marital Rape - Books
   • Dissociation (Multiple Personality Disorder/Dissociative Identity Disorder) - Books
   • Eating Disorders - Books
   • Holocaust - Survivors of Sexual Violence
   • Juvenile Sex Offenders - Books
   • Legal / Law Enforcement - Books
   • Medical Professionals - Books
   • Mind Control / Cults - Books
   • Parenting - Books
   • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - Books
   • Professional Sexual Misconduct - Books
   • Prostitution/Trafficking - Books
   • Sex Offenders - Books
   • Sexual Assault / Rape
   • Sexuality
   • Sibling Incest

3. Video's and DVD's

   • Child Abuse and Neglect (Video's and DVD's)
   • Childhood Sexual Abuse (Video's and DVD's)
     • Childhood Sexual Abuse - Male Survivor (Video's and DVD's)
   • Cults / Mind Control (Video's and DVD's)
   • Domestic Violence / Marital Rape (Video's and DVD's)
   • Prostitution / Human Traffiking (Video's and DVD's)
   • Sexual Assault (Video's and DVD's)
   • Clergy Abuse (Video's and DVD's)

4. Audio Tapes

   • Childhood Sexual Abuse (Audio Tapes)
   • Clergy Abuse  (Audio Tapes)
   • Sexual Assault (Audio Tapes)

5. Healing Music

   • Ohr Chadash  by Ayelet HaShachar by Lisa Aronson Friedman, Shalomis Koffler, and Stephanie Rabinowitz.

     • Darashti Et Hashem (song about surviving trauma/terrorism)
     • Castle of the King

   • From Strength to Strength by Peter Himmelman

     • This Too Will Pass

     • Impermanent Things

     • G-D Don't Have To Teach You This Way

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• Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape by Susan Brownmiller

• For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence by Alice Miller
• Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror, by Judith Herman

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• No Enemies Within: A Creative Process for Discovering What's Right About What's Wrong by Dawna Markova
• No Safe Place: The Legacy of Family Violence by Christina Crawford
• Resilient Adults : Overcoming a Cruel Past by Gina O'Connell Higgins
• Unchained Memories: True Stories of Traumatic Memories, Lost and Found by Lenore Terr

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• Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuriesby Alice Miller

• Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You by Sue William Silverman
• The Primrose Path - by Carol Matas.  Also see: case of Rabbi Ephraim Bryks.
• Shine the Light: Sexual Abuse and Healing in the Jewish Community by Rachel Lev
• Soul Murder: The Effects of Childhood Abuse and Deprivation by Leonard Shengold
• Spilled Milk by Holly Goldstein

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• Broken Toys Broken Dreams: Understanding and Healing Codependency, Compulsive Behaviors and Family by Terry Kellogg and Marvel Harrison

• Murder of Innocence: The Tragic Life and Final Rampage of Laurie Dann by Joel Kaplan, George Papajohn and Eric Zorn

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• Adoption and the Sexually Abused Child by  by Joan McNamara and Bernard McNamara

• Let's Talk About It: Adoption by Fred Rogers
• Zachary's New Home: A Story for Foster and Adopted Children by Geraldine M. Blomquist and Paul B. Blomquist

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• Abused Boys: The Neglected Victims of Sexual Abuse by Mic Hunter

• Conspiracy of Silence: The Trauma of Incest by Sandra Butler.

• The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis.
• The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self by Alice Miller
• Father-Daughter Incest by Judith Lewis Herman
• Getting Through the Day: Strategies for Adults Hurt As Children by Nancy J. Napier
• Healing the Incest Wound: Adult Survivors in Therapy by Christine A. Courtois
• The Healing Power of Play: Working with Abused Children by Eliana Gil
• How Can I Forgive You?: The Courage To Forgive, the Freedom Not To by  by Janis A. Spring
• I Thought We'd Never Speak Again: The Road from Estrangement to Reconciliation by Laura Davis
• I Never Told Anyone: Writings by Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse by Ellen Bass and Louise Thornton
• Leaping Upon the Mountains: Men Proclaiming Victory over Sexual Child Abuse by Mike Lew
• Nursery Crimes: Sexual Abuse in Day Care by David Finkelhor and Linda Meyer Williams
• Outgrowing the Pain: A Book for and About Adults Abused As Children by Eliana Gil
• Secret Survivors: Uncovering Incest and Its Aftereffects in Women by E. Sue Blume
• Strong at the Heart: How It Feels to Heal from Sexual Abuse by Carolyn Lehman
• Times Square Rabbi: Finding the Hope in Lost Kids' Lives by Rabbi Yehuda Fine
• The Me Knobody Knows: A Guide For Teen Survivors by Barbara Bean and Shari Bennett
• Victims No Longer: The Classic Guide for Men Recovering from Sexual Child Abuse by Mike Lew

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• A Child's First Book About Play Therapy by Marc A. Nemiroff and Jane Annunziata

• A Very Touching Book...for Little People and for Big People by Jan Hindman
• Feeling Angry - Let's Talk About It by Joy Berry
• The Empty Place: A Child's Guide Through Grief by Roberta Temes
• Hands Are Not for Hitting by Martine Agassi
• I Told My Secret: A Book for Kids Who Were Abused by Sally Haskell and Eliana
• Let's Talk About It: Adoption by Fred Rogers
• Let's Talk About It: Divorce by Fred Rogers
• Let's Talk About Feeling Sad by Joy Wilt Berry
• My Body Is Mine, My Feelings Are Mine/ With Game: A Storybook About Body Safety for Young Children With an Adult Guidebook by Susan Hoke
• My Body Is Private by Linda Walvoord Girard
• Peace Begins With You by Katherine Scholes
• Please Tell!: A Child's Story About Sexual Abuse by Jessie
• Red Flag Green Flag People: A Personal Safety Program for Children/& Coloring Book by Kecia Softing Freed
• Something Happened and I'm Scared to Tell: A Book for Young Victims of Abuse by Patricia Kehoe
• The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper
• Zachary's New Home: A Story for Foster and Adopted Children by Geraldine M. Blomquist and Paul B. Blomquist

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• The Primrose Path - by Carol Matas.  Also see: case of Rabbi Ephraim Bryks.

• Unchosen: The Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels, by Hella Winston

• Article: Confronting Abuse In The Orthodox Community, by Rabbi Yosef Blau, Nefesh News, 7:9, July 2003).

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• Art Therapy Practice: Innovative Approaches with Diverse Populations by Harriet Wadeson

• Bridging the Silence: Nonverbal Modalities in the Treatment of Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse by Susan L.Simonds

• Casebook of Sexual Abuse Treatment by William N. Friedrich
• The Ethical Use of Touch in Psychotherapy by by Mic Hunter and Jim Struve
• Family Therapy: Concepts and Methods (7th Edition) by Michael P Nichols and Richard C Schwartz
• The Healing Power of Play: Working with Abused Children by Eliana Gil
• I Hate You, Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality by Jerold J. Kreisman and Hal Straus
• Internal Family Systems Therapy by Richard C. Schwartz
• Memory and Abuse by Charles Whitfield
• The Mosaic Mind: Empowering the Tormented Selves of Child Abuse Survivors by Regina A. Goulding and Richard C. Schwartz
• Pockets of Craziness: Examining Suspected Incest by Brohl Kathryn
• Psychotherapy of Sexually Abused Children and Their Families by William N. Friedrich
• Risking Connection: A Training Curriculum for Working With Survivors of Childhood Abuse by Karen W. Saakvitne, Sarah Gamble, Laurie Anne Pearlman and Beth Tabor Lev
• Sexual Abuse And Eating Disorders by Mark Schwartz
• Sexual Abuse: Incest Victims and Their Families by Jean Goodwin
• Trauma and Sexuality: The Effects of Childhood Sexual, Physical, and Emotional Abuse on Sexual Identity and Behavior by James A. Chu 
• Treating Incest: A Multiple Systems Perspective by  by Terry S. Trepper and Mary Jo Barrett
• Treating the Young Male Victim of Sexual Assault by Eugene Porter
• What Children Can Tell Us: Eliciting, Interpreting, and Evaluating Critical Information from Children by James Garbarino, Frances M. Stott, Faculty of the Erikson Institute

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• Art Therapy Practice: Innovative Approaches with Diverse Populations by Harriet Wadeson

• The Creative Journal: The Art of Finding Yourself by Lucia Capacchione

• Creative and Mental Growth by Viktor Lowenfeld and W. Lambert Brittain
• Managing Traumatic Stress Through Art: Drawing from the Center by Barry Cohen, Mary-Michola Barnes and Anita Rankin
• Telling Without Talking: Art As a Window into the World of Multiple Personality by Barry M. Cohen and Carol Thayer Cox

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• The Shidduch Crisis Causes and Cures by Michael J. Salamon, PhD

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• Empowering Survivors of Abuse: Health Care for Battered Women and Their Children by Jacquelyn C. Campbell

• Everybody's Best Friend - The murder of Stephanie Rabinowitz, by Ken Englade

• License To Rape: Sexual Abuse of Wives by David Finkelhor

• Rape in Marriage by Diana E.H.Russel

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• A Dissociation in Children and Adolescents: Developmental Perspective by Frank W. Putman

• Beyond Integration: One Multiple's Journey Doris Bryant and Judy Kessler
• The Dissociative Child: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Management by Joyanna L. Silberg
• The Family Inside: Working With the Multiple by Doris Bryant, Judy Kessler and Lynda Shirar
• Feeling Unreal: Depersonalization Disorder and the Loss of the Self by Daphne Simeon and Jeffrey Abugel
• Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality by Joan Frances Casey and Lynn Wilson
• The Magic Daughter: A Memoir of Living with Multiple Personality Disorder by Jane Phillips
• Mending Ourselves: Expressions of Healing and Self-Integration by Lynn Wasnak
• Multiple Personality Disorder from the Inside Out by W. Gillerm, Barry M. Cohen, Esther Giller, Lynn W.
• The Osiris Complex: Case-Studies in Multiple Personality Disorder by Colin A. Ross
• Rebuilding Shattered Lives: The Responsible Treatment of Complex Post-Traumatic and Dissociative Disorders by James A. Chu
• Someone I Know Has Multiple Personalities: A Book for Significant Others-- Friends, Family, and Caring Professionals by Sandra Hocking
• The Stranger In The Mirror by Marlene Steinberg and Maxine Schnall
• Telling Without Talking: Art As a Window into the World of Multiple Personality by Barry M. Cohen (Author), Carol Thayer Cox

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• Sexual Abuse And Eating Disorders by Mark Schwartz

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• Men or Rats by Simonne Levi - Jameson, PhD. Cost $20.00 (US dollars).  Make checks payable to: Children's Rights Foundation, Inc.  ELPIDA, Dr. Simonne Jameson, 620 Mt. Aitken Rd., Sunbury, Victoria, Australia 3429

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• Assessment and Treatment of Adolescent Sex Offenders by Garry P. Perry and Janet Orchard

• Helping children with sexual behavior problems: A guidebook for parents and substitute caregivers by Toni Cavanagh Johnson
• A Guide for Parents of Children Who Molest by Eliana Gil
• See Jane Hit: Why Girls Are Growing More Violent and What We Can Do About It by James Garbarino
• Sexualized Children: Assessment and Treatment of Sexualized Children and Children Who Molest by Eliana Gil and Toni Cavanagh Johnson.

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• Children's Story: Sexually Molested Children in Criminal Court by Judege Sandra Butler Smith

• Child Sexual Abuse and the Courts: A Manual for Therapists by Adele Mayer
• Delayed Prosecution for Childhood Sexual Abuseby Penney Lewis
• God vs. the Gavel: Religion and the Rule of Law by  Marci A. Hamilton
• Justice Denied: What America Must Do to Protect its Children by  Marci A. Hamilton
• Investigation and Prosecution of Child Abuse by National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse
• On trial: America's courts and their treatment of sexually abused children by  Billie Wright and Judge Charles B. Schudson

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• Evaluating Child Sexual Abuse: Education Manual for Medical Professionalsby Ann S. Botash

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• Combating Cult Mind Control by Steven Hassan

• Releasing The Bonds: Empowering People to Think for Themselves by Steven Hassan

• Recovery from Cults: Help for Victims of Psychological and Spiritual Abuse by Michael D. Langone

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• A Guide for Parents of Children Who Molest by Eliana Gil

• A Very Touching Book...for Little People and for Big People by Jan Hindman
• But I Didn't Say Goodbye : For parents and professionals helping child suicide survivors by Barbara Rubel
• Grieving Child: A Parent's Guide by Helen Fitzgerald
• Healing the Harm Done: A Parent's Guide to Helping Your Child Overcome the Effects of Sexual Abuse by Jennifer Y.Levy
• Helping children with sexual behavior problems: A guidebook for parents and substitute caregivers by Toni Cavanagh Johnson
• The Mother's Book: How to Survive the Molestation of Your Child by Carolyn M. Byerly
• Please Tell!: A Child's Story About Sexual Abuse by Jessie
• See Jane Hit: Why Girls Are Growing More Violent and What We Can Do About It by James Garbarino
• Talking about touching: For parents and kids : parent guide by Kathy Beland
• Understanding Your Child's Sexual Behavior by Toni Cavanagh Johnson
• When Your Child Has Been Molested: A Parents Guide to Healing and Recovery by Kathryn Brohl and Joyce Case Potter

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• Creating Sanctuary: Toward the Evolution of Sane Societies by Sandra L. Bloom

• Growing Beyond Survival: A Self-Help Toolkit for Managing Traumatic Stress by Elizabeth Vermilyea
• I Can't Get over It: A Handbook for Trauma Survivors by Aphrodite Matsakis
• International Handbook of Human Response to Trauma by Arieh Y. Shalev, Rachel Yehuda and Alexander C. McFarlane
• Posttraumatic Stress Disorders in Children and Adolescents by Raul Silva and Raul R. Silva
• The PTSD Workbook: Simple, Effective Techniques for Overcoming Traumatic Stress Symptoms by  Mary Beth Williams
• Trust After Trauma: A Guide to Relationships for Survivors and Those Who Love Them by Aphrodite Matsakis

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• Therapist, the Shocking Autobiography of a Woman Sexually Exploited By Her Analyst by Ellen Plasil

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• Prostitution, Trafficking and Traumatic Stress by Melissa Farley  

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• Conversations With a Pedophile: In the Interest of our Children by Amy  Hammel-Zabin

• Families That Abuse: Diagnosis and Therapy by Stefano Cirillo and Paola Diblasio
• Female Sex Offenders: What Therapists, Law Enforcement and Child Protective Services Need to Know by Julia Hislop
• Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, and Other Sex Offenders : Who They Are, How They Operate, and How We Can Protect Ourselves and Our Children by Anna C. Salter
• Supervision of the Sex Offender: Community Management, Risk Assessment and Treatment by Georgia Cumming and Robert McGrath

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• Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape by Susan Brownmiller

• The Politics of Rape: The Victims Perspective by Diana E.H. Russel
• After Silence: Rape & My Journey Back by Nancy Venable Raine

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• Joyous Sexuality: Healling From The Effects of Family Sexual Dysfunction by Mic Hunter

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• The Brother/Sister Hurt: Recognizing the Effects of Sibling Abuse by Veronon R. Wiehe

• Not Child's Play: An Anthology on Brother-Sister Incest by Risa Shaw

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• Billy Jack (1971)
• Cinderella (1965) by Rogers and Hammerstein
• Ever After - A Cinderella Story (1998)
• Dumbo (1941)
• Hansel and Gretel: An Opera Fantasy (1954)
• Murder of Innocence (1993) - Made for TV Movie about the Case of Laurie Dann
• Oliver! (1968)
• Ordinary People (1980)
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1938)

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• I Never Promised You A Rose Garden (1977) (PTSD)
• The Color Purple (1985)
• Nuts (1987) (PTSD)
• Sibil (1976) (Dissociation)
• The Three Faces of Eve (1957) (Dissociation)

Childhood Sexual Abuse - Male Survivor (Video's and DVD's)

• The Prince of Tides (1991) (PTSD)

• Pink Floyd The Wall (1982) (PTSD)

• Tommy (1975) (Dissociation)

• Trembling Before G-D (2001) (includes a case of childhood sexual abuse)

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• The Village (2004)

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• The Burning Bed (1984)

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• Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)

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• The Accused (1988)
• Extremities (1986)
• Thelma & Louise (1991)

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• The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
• Twist of Faith (2004) - Addresses the sexual abuse of young boys by Catholic priests

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Audio Tapes

• Shattering the Silence: Childhood Sexual Abuse," Vicki Polin and Michael Salamon. Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance (JOFA) 5th Annual International Conference.
• A Jewish Perspective on Child Sexual Abuse. Vicki Polin, executive director of The Awareness Center, Inc. Appears on Ethicalife Talk Internet Radio Show.

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• The Politics of Gender in Confronting an Abusive Rabbi, Judy Klitsner. Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance (JOFA) 5th Annual International Conference.
• When Authority Breaks Down: The Abuse of Power, Rabbis Yosef Blau and Mark Dratch. Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance (JOFA) 5th Annual International Conference.

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Sexual Assault / Rape - Tapes

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Last Updated:  05/21/2008

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