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A man's recovery from traumatic childhood abuse : the insiders / Robert Blackburn Knight with Mark Falstein.
Van Pelt Library RC464.K646 A3 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Knight, Robert Blackburn.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Knight, Robert Blackburn.
- Psychotherapy patients--United States--Biography.
- Psychotherapy patients.
- United States.
- Adult child abuse victims--United States--Biography.
- Adult child abuse victims.
- Adult child sexual abuse victims--United States--Biography.
- Adult child sexual abuse victims.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 301 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Haworth Maltreatment and Trauma Press, [2002]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1. Robert: A Proposition from My Inner Child June-October 1987 1
- My Experiences with Hypnotherapy 2
- I Awaken the First Monster 6
- More Family Skeletons 10
- Splits, Ego States, and Multiple Personalities 13
- Chapter 2. Young One, Honey, Dream Woman, and Bear: Memories Are Made of This November 1987-February 1988 19
- Struggling to Believe the Memories 22
- Young One: A Second Child Within and a Second Monster 24
- Block That Fantasy!
- Or Not? 27
- The Insiders 29
- More Splitting 32
- Chapter 3. Child Abuse and Its Discontents March-May 1988 35
- The Rewards and Frustrations of Amnesia 37
- Coping with Wine and Weed 40
- "The Courage to Heal," the Cowardice of Denial 42
- 100 Ways to Kill My Father, Give or Take 85 45
- Trying to Show Kindness to the Inner Children 47
- Chapter 4. Anger, Despair, Self-Hate, Binges June-November 1988 53
- I Try to Hide, but They Still Find Me 56
- Eddie and How He Died 61
- This Is Not What's Meant by a Rich Inner Life 63
- Feeling Abandoned 65
- Chapter 5. My Man-of-Anger Takes Charge November 1988-April 1989 69
- Massaging the Feelings Loose 71
- A Child Molester in a Survivors' Group 75
- The Insiders and I Deal with Betrayal 78
- The Return of Red: That's What You Get for Theorizing 81
- Trauma, Ego States, and Why I'm Not a Multiple 85
- Chapter 6. Sex Rears Several of Its Heads April-August 1989 91
- Working It Out with Linda 95
- Remembering Abuse, Reading About Recovery 98
- Big Honey, the Champion 103
- Grace, the Sexually Needy 106
- Chapter 7. Earthquakes, Within and Without September-November 1989 111
- Another Group, Another Perp 114
- Torture 117
- Loma Prieta 119
- Listening to the Insiders...and a Few Bureaucrats 122
- Chapter 8. Q: The Memory of Pain December 1989-April 1990 129
- Looking for Structure Among the Insiders 132
- Memories in and out of Time 135
- Hitting Bottom with Linda 140
- Feeling Q's Pain 144
- Chapter 9. Frankie: Befriending the Monster May-October 1990 147
- Talking About Sex
- and Enjoying Some 149
- A Workshop on Ego-State Therapy 152
- Confront My Mother? The Insiders Say No 154
- All Ego States Have a Positive Function 156
- Working with Jack and Helen Watkins 160
- The Dad Introject Becomes Frankie 164
- Chapter 10. Male at Risk October 1990-April 1991 169
- Grace's Sexuality
- and Mine 171
- More Depression, More Theory, More Denial...Less Sex 174
- Choosing to Confront Mom 182
- Shut Down 186
- Chapter 11. The "Oh, No!" Experience May-November 1991 191
- Couples Therapy 193
- Me and My Shadow 197
- The Inner Pervert: Crystallizing My Sexual Conflict 199
- Q's Sexuality
- and Linda's 201
- Chapter 12. The Cost of Denial December 1991-May 1992 209
- Being OK Sexually: Therapy for Christmas Haters 211
- Linda and I Deep in Each Other's Stuff 214
- Pain, Screams, and Other Unfinished Business 217
- The Cost of Ignoring Mom 221
- Memoirs of a Child Prostitute 225
- Chapter 13. Disintegration June-September 1992 229
- Bobby and Red: The Insiders Prepare for War 230
- Oedipus and I 234
- "Moments of Healing": Working with Mariah Gladis 238
- Die Soon, Mommy 240
- Night of Horrors 244
- Chapter 14. Healing September-December 1992 249
- "The Mother Wound Is Always Deepest" 252
- Breaking the Fantasy Bonds 255
- Another Christmas with the Insiders 260
- Chapter 15. Burning Mom January-May 1993 265
- Gestalt at Esalen 267
- The Insiders Are Healing One Another 270
- Putting the Anger Where It Belongs 273
- Trusting the Process 277
- Letting Mom Die 281
- The Pyre 284.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-301).
- ISBN:
- 078901064X
- 0789010658
- OCLC:
- 47056416
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