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Listopia > Bookish's votes on the list Breaking the Silence: Talking About Violence Against Women (20 Books)
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Today I'm Alice: Nine Personalities, One Tortured Mind
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"Rape, DID, some ritual abuse, struggling through the mental health system and recovery."
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rated it 5 stars
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Scarred: She was a slave to her father. Pain was her only escape.
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"Groomed, manipulated and suicidal, Sophie's only attachment in life is to her father, also her abuser."
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Breaking Free: Help for survivors of child sexual abuse
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"Excellent and simple recovery book with quotes from many survivors"
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rated it 5 stars
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Groomed
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"Autobiography: grooming is well described, some ritual abuse"
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rated it 5 stars
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Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamist Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs
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"Rape within an illegal marriage and the struggle to leave the abusive cult."
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rated it 4 stars
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Trafficked
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"Tricked, raped, and forced into prostitution in Italy - very unusual set of experiences"
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rated it 4 stars
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The Color Purple
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"Domestic violence and abuse"
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Conduct Unbecoming: Rape, Torture, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from Military Commanders
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"Military rape plus re-traumatization, written by a therapist."
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rated it 5 stars
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Denial: A Memoir of Terror
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"Unusual book - a terrorism expert uses her ability to dissociate in a positive way, and investigates her rapist's history."
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rated it 5 stars
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Secret Weapons: Two Sisters Terrifying True Story of Sex, Spies and Sabotage
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"Government-sponsored sexual abuse combined with incest."
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rated it 5 stars
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Twenty-Two Faces
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"Some very graphic parts including incest and ritual abuse."
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rated it 5 stars
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Fire of the Five Hearts
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"Therapist who works with child incest survivors and their parents, and suffers secondary traumatization, written with heart and soul/"
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rated it 5 stars
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Wholeness: My Healing Journey from Ritual Abuse
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The Sum of My Parts: A Survivor's Story of Dissociative Identity Disorder
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Fractured
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Am I a Good Girl Yet?: Childhood Abuse had Shattered Her. What Would it Take to Make Her Whole?
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TRANCE-formation of America: The True Life Story of a CIA Mind Control Slave
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Strangeland
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"Artist Tracey Emin talks about the boy/man who destroyed her childhood"
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rated it 4 stars
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I Choose to Live
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"kidnapping, captivitiy, trial and the effects of PTSD but without descriptions of the rapes"
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rated it 4 stars
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The Living Proof
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