The first decade of life -- Adolescence : ages twelve to twenty -- Three adolescent case studies -- Young adulthood -- The decade of the thirties -- Middle adulthood : ages forty to sixty-five -- The sexual abuse of six girls by a clergyman -- Four sisters : the effect of chronic childhood sexual abuse on fifty years of adolescent and adult development
Summary
The Long Shadow of Sexual Abuse: Developmental Effects across the Life Cycle has one simple purpose--to describe the profound interferences with normal developmental processes that occur in every subsequent developmental phase throughout life as theresult of chronic child sexual abuse. Through the presentation of detailed case histories of individuals ranging in age from five to the early sixties, Colarusso convincingly demonstrates that the effects are life long. Sections on normal development forchildhood, adolescence, young, and middle adulthood are followed by case histories, arranged chron
