Here is a list of books that we hope you may find useful. If you purchase any
of the books (or any other products) through our website, via the link to Amazon,
NAPAC will receive 10% of the cover value from them.
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The Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Relationship:
How to Support Your Partner and Keep Your Relationship Healthy
Diane England, Ph.D.
• Paperback 271 pages (2009)
• Publisher: Adams Media
• ISBN: 1598699970
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War, physical and sexual abuse, natural disasters. All crises have one thing in common: Victims often suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and their loved ones suffer right along with them. In "The Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Relationship", couples learn how to have a healthy relationship in spite of a stressful and debilitating disorder.
Readers learn how to: deal with emotions regarding their partner's PTSD; talk about the traumatic event(s); communicate with their PTSD partner when separated by active duty; handle sexual relations when a PTSD partner has suffered a traumatic sexual event; and, help your partner cope with everyday life issues. This book looks to keeping the relationship strong and helping both partners recover in happy, healthy ways. |
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Allies in Healing
When the Person You Love Was Sexually Abused as a Child
Laura Davis
• Paperback 368 pages (1991)
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• ISBN: 0060968834
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Focusing on people who were sexually abused as children, and based on interviews and her workshops for partners across the U.S.A., Laura Davies offers practical advice and encouragement to all partners - girlfriends, boyfriends, spouses and lovers - trying to support the survivors in their lives while tending to their own needs along the way.
She shows couples how to deepen compassion, improve communication, and develop an understanding of healing as a shared activity. Addressing partners' most important questions, this book answers common questions about sexual abuse, introduces key concepts of working and growing together, includes strategies for handling suicidal feelings, regression and hopelessness, offers practical advice on healing with distancing, control, trust and fighting, provides guidelines for coping with flashbacks, lack of desire, differences in sexual needs and frustration, and explores the struggles, triumphs and courage of eight partners. Laura Davis is a co-author of "The Courage to Heal" and author of "The Courage to Heal Workbook". |
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Ghosts In The Bedroom
A Guide for Partners of Incest Survivors
Ken Graber
• Paperback 152 pages (1992)
• Publisher: Health Communications
• ISBN: 155874116X
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Ken Graber's Ghosts in the Bedroom is described as one of the finest and clearest books for partners of incest survivors. It raises and addresses questions that those who love, or are in a relationship with, a survivor need answered. This book is recommended for anyone in a relationship with an incest survivor and also to men and woman who are themselves victims/survivors of sexual abuse and incest. |
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Living with the Legacy of Abuse:
How to Make Your
Relationship Work When Your Partner Is a Survivor of Childhood Sexual
Abuse
Beverly Engels, Robin Skynner, and Valerie Sinason
• Paperback 219 pages (1998)
• Publisher: Camden Press
• ISBN: 0948491531
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This book presents essential information on abuse, the recovery process,
and the resultant responses of the survivor. Engel summarises the types
of support that the survivor needs. It covers the reactions that survivors
experience during the recovery period and how to deal with them. |
