Fire of the Five Hearts - A Memoir of Treating Incest

In stark, elegant prose, Holly Smith presents an unflinching account of her work with victims of incest, a crime that affects one in five children, and immerses readers in the grueling details of her tiny patients' lives, punctuating the accounts with her own range of emotions: disgust, shock, anger, guilt, joy at victory tempered by sadness of innocence lost.

List of contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. Ricky Still Loves Lulu

2. Isabella

3. The Sins of the Fathers Are Visited Upon the Daughters
4. Laying Down with the Offender

5.To My Haunting Ophelia, Who Brings Me to My Knees - Tie My Hands: On Esthetics, Art, and Spontaneous Weeping

6. On Siblings and Sex

7. The Therapist with Child: Transference and Counter-transference Ad Nauseum

8. On Finding a Voice

9. Falling From Grace

10. Spank Me: On Sex and the Unthinkable

11. From Field to Administration

12. Pockets of Compassion - When Mine are Empty

About the author

Holly A. Smith is the supervisor of the Boulder County Sexual Abuse Team in Colorado. She has taught graduate-level courses on the treatment of incest and sexual abuse at the Naropa Institute and has trained at the Denver University School of Social Work.

Summary

This book covers the influence of twenty years of work in the field of incest on a therapist's professional and personal life.

Product details

• Authors: Holly a Smith, Holly A. Smith, Smith Holly A.
• Assisted by: . Charles R. Figley (Foreword)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.08.2002
• EAN: 9781583913543
• ISBN: 978-1-58391-354-3
• No. of pages: 216
• Weight: 390 g
• Subjects: Guides; Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Psychotherapy, Sexual abuse and harassment, Biography: philosophy and social sciences