- Betrayal Trauma
- Jennifer J. Freyd
- This book lays bare the logic of forgotten abuse. Psychologist Jennifer Freyd's breakthrough theory explaining this phenomenon shows how psychogenic amnesia not only happens but also, if the abuse occurred at the hands of a parent or caregiver, is often necessary for survival.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998
- Father-Daughter Incest
- Judith Lewis Herman
- Through an intensive clinical study of forty incest victims and numerous interviews with professionals in mental health, child protection, and law enforcement, Judith Herman develops a composite picture of the incestuous family. In a new afterword, Herman offers a lucid and thorough overview of the knowledge that has developed about incest and other forms of sexual abuse since this book was first published.
- Paperback 2000
- What Trouble I Have Seen
- David Peterson del Mar
- In the first sustained history and interdisciplinary study of violence toward wives in America,David Peterson del Mar reflects on the changes in American society that have affected violence: wife-beating was quietly condoned until the spread of an ethos of self-restraint in the late nineteenth century; the practice increased with a vengeance with the florescence of expressive individualism during the twentieth century.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998