Product Description

In this book, Wendy Maltz helps survivors of sexual abuse achieve the loving and safe sexual lives they so richly deserve, taking them step-by-step through one of the most challenging aspects of recovery. Based on the author's clinical work, interviews, survey results, and workshops, this guide is filled with first-person accounts of men and women at every stage of sexual healing and includes groundbreaking exercises and techniques for survivors to work on alone or with their partners. Since its original publication, The Sexual Healing Journey has sold more than 100,000 copies. The repackage will include an updated cover, a new foreword by the author, and a revised resource section,

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #197919 in Books
• Published on: 2001-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 368 pages

Review
"The first book to offer sound and detailed guidelines far sexual healing... a rare, useful, and encouraging contribution." --Harriet Lerner, author of The Dance of Anger. "Men and women who have despaired that their sex lives would never change will find hope and answers in this friendly, encouraging, and essential guide." --Laura Davis, co-author of The Courage to Heal"

Synopsis
In this book, Wendy Maltz helps survivors of sexual abuse achieve the loving and safe sexual lives they so richly deserve, taking them step-by-step through one of the most challenging aspects of recovery. Based on the author's clinical work, interviews, survey results, and workshops, this guide is filled with first-person accounts of men and women at every stage of sexual healing and includes groundbreaking exercises and techniques for survivors to work on alone or with their partners. Since its original publication, The Sexual Healing Journey has sold more than 100,000 copies. The repackage will include an updated cover, a new foreword by the author, and a revised resource section,

About the Author
Wendy Maltz, M.S.W., is a licensed clinical social worker, marriage therapist and certified sex therapist in private practice in Eugene, OR. A frequent lecturer, she is the co-author of Incest and Sexuality and is the writer and producer of Partners in Healing, a video for couples.

Customer Reviews

An exceptional manual for abuse survivors!!
Before I read this book I was wandering around this world wondering why I was such a bad person for allowing all the things that happened to me happen. But after I read this book I realized a very important lesson, I am not bad. I did not deserve what happened. This book is a comprehensive manual for someone to follow who has been through any kind of sexual abuse. It can lead you step-by-step through the healing process giving you guidelines to follow. Understand that just reading the book isn't the cure. You have to take an active role in your own self recovery and once you do this, you will finally be rid of any nightmares that haunt you. This book was THE turning point in my surviving the abuse. Without it, I would still be wandering.

It has definitely taught my husband and i how to be closer
I picked up this book and from the first random page i opened and flipped to, i almost immediately felt a connection with this book. It goes through every imaginable situation, types of abuse, and how each one (even if not first-hand abuse, but seeing it or hearing it ..... she takes into account ALL the different abuses) affects us all in different ways. How to tell that there's a sexual problem, how to define it, how to accept it, how to talk about it to partners/friends/family if at all possible, how to identify the sexual IMPACT and how it's affected us. Then it works into reclaiming that self-worth, gaining control over automatic responses, healing wth an intimate partner, and techniques for relearning touch and to BE touched. It talks about the impact that abuse has on our views of the word Sex and what it means to Survivors. It helps you change your image of the word, and to re-learn (or learn for the first time) what it really means. You learn how to accept the past, and that you were once robbed of the real meaning of touch and love. I almost want to underline each line in the book because it defines us (my husband and I, and what we're facing) sooooo well. And it goes step by step on how to accept it all the way to learning how to touch. It's very gently written, but with a strong emphasis on learning what abuse has done to your view of sex, and what impact is has on your intimate life. It has really helped my husband understand what is going on with me, and it has brought us closer together.