Sexual Assault & Rape:  Self-Help & Support
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After Silence
Healing the Trauma of Abuse
I Never Called It Rape
Out of the Shadows
Rape As Bereavement
Rape Recovery Handbook
Raped		 Real Rape Real Pain
 Recovering From Rape
Recovery
 Sexual Violence
Surviving the Silence
Survivor's Guide to Recovery
Telling : A Memoir of Rape & Recovery

After Silence : Rape and My Journey Back
After Silence : Rape and My Journey Backby Nancy Venable Raine
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"I have tried to record not only what I experienced and felt on the day I was raped and in the years since, but also what I understand about my experience based on what experts have observed about rape's impact on the mind, body and spirit... In giving language to my own experience. I hope to dispel  at least some part of the fear and shame that has made victims mute."

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Healing the Trauma of Abuse : A Women's Workbook
imageby Mary Ellen Copeland & Maxine Harris
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"A practical, step-by-step guide through the recovery and healing process for women who have experienced sexual, emotional or physical abuse in childhood and/or adulthood... The exercises may help you feel good about yourself, be the way you want to be, and do the things you want to do in your life."

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I Never Called It Rape : The Ms Report on Recognizing Fighting and Surviving Date & Acquaintance Rape
imageby Robin Warshaw
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Combines survey results and scholarly perspectives with vivid first-person accounts to explain what date rape is, how it happens, and what we can do about it.

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Out of the Shadows : Help for Men Who Have Been Sexually Assaulted
imageby Sarah Stott
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"Written to provide factual information about male children and adults who have been subjected to sexual assault. It aims to help these male survivors understand how sexual assault may have affected them and offers practical suggestions about how to deal with those effects." Includes some helpful survivors' stories. 

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Rape As Bereavement
 by Judy Hanson
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A useful booklet for Christian survivors.  "I hope to strip away some misconceptions about rape which hinder the healing process, and to formulate an understanding of rape and its effects in order to help pave the way for biblical pastoral care which will open the way for God's healing love and power to restore shattered lives."

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The Rape Recovery Handbook : Step-by-Step Help for Survivors of Sexual Assault
imageby Aphrodite Matsakis
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"The more you know about sexual assault the better you will understand what happened to you and be able to put it into perspective... The first and most important step in recovery is to restore your faith in yourself... It will be a struggle, but it is possible to succeed." 

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Raped
by JC McFee
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A booklet of powerful and painful poetry by a survivor of multiple instances of rape.

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Real Rape, Real Pain : Help for Women Sexually Assaulted by Male Partners
real rape real painby Patricia Easteal &  Louise McOrmond-Plummer
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If you think you’re alone in fearing the rapist in your home – abused even while you love the perpetrator – here’s a book that will open your eyes to what numerous other women are going through, and teach you about rights, boundaries and healing from the trauma caused by partner rape.

The aims of the book are changing the rape culture and helping survivors. Chapters cover identifying rape in marriage, women at risk, staying with a partner who has raped you, sexuality after partner rape, a safety plan, and numerous other issues related to partner rape.


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Recovering From Rape
imageby Linda Ledray
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Each chapter begins with a section for the rape survivor, providing information and support, and showing that other people have felt the same way and successfully resolved their feelings. This is followed by a section for significant others, to help them understand and resolve their own feelings, and best help their partner.

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Recovery : How to Survive Sexual Assault for Women, Men, Teenagers, and Their Friends and Family
Recoveryby Helen Benedict
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Contains a wealth of supportive information on the short and long-term effects of sexual assault, including a special chapter for male victims of rape, and one for partners of survivors.

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Sexual Violence : The Reality for Women : Third Edition
image by The London Rape Crisis Centre
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Fully revised and updated. "This book seeks to answer some of the questions commonly raised by survivors, those providing support to them and people working for a more safe and just society."

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Surviving the Silence : Black Women's Stories of Rape
imageby Charlotte Pierce-Baker
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A compassionately written book, which opens with the author's own story of being raped by a stranger in her middle-class home, her court ordeal and her family's response. Plus the stories of 10 other "silent survivors" - of rape, incest, childhood sexual abuse and date rape, and finally the voices of the men who loved and supported them.

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Survivor's Guide to Recovery : From Rape or Sexual Abuse        NEW!
imageby Robert Kelly & Fay Maxted
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“…a first step for anyone who wants to look at the impact sexual abuse has had in their lives… We are interested in how you can find ways to cope… on a day-to-day basis. Even more than that, for you to find a way to move through coping to living an inspired life.” Full of exercises, self-nurturing tips and friendly illustrations.

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Telling : A Memoir of Rape & Recovery
imageby Patricia W. Francisco
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"At first, I could not stop telling the story of the night a stranger raped me. I told it obsessively, sequentially, each detail rigidly in place... Then suddenly I stopped talking."  A decade later, she realised a "sensation of responsibility worked to keep me silent and ashamed for the next 10 years", and she began to write....

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