Main description:

This book provides the long history of male sexual abuse based on the author's extensive clinical experience of working with children and adult victims of sexual crime. It presents several sexual abuse studies, focusing on the challenging art of psychotherapeutic treatment.

Contents:

Series Editor's Foreword -- Introduction -- The invisible men: a brief history of male survival -- Toxic masculinity: the impact of sexual aggression upon the male psyche -- Numbers: working with sexual compulsion -- There is no such thing as a survivor: forensic psychotherapy and the abused/abuser split -- On not knowing the colour of a patient's eyes: working with profound depression -- Dying to be a woman: grievances and attacks on gender -- Starving for two: working with embodied trauma -- Physician heal thyself: the impact of trauma upon the clinician -- The disunited states: working with dissociation -- A crowded marriage: working with couples -- Becoming visible: on seeing and being seen