• Mike Lew. Victims No Longer. Harper & Row, 1988.

For men recovering from incest in childhood. Talks about male survivors as survivors and not potential perpetrators.

• Laura Davis. Allies in Healing: When the Person You Love Was Sexually Abused as a Child. HarperCollins, USA, 1991.

A guide for partners who are taking care of themselves and the survivors they love.

• Eliana Gil. Outgrowing The Pain. Launch Press, California, 1984.

A book for and about adults abused as children.

• Eliana Gil. Outgrowing The Pain Together. Dell Bantam Doubleday, 1992.

For partners and spouses of adults abused as children.

• Geneen Roth. When Food Is Love: Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy. Dutton, 1991.

A look at the relationship between compulsive eating, childhood pain and every person’s struggle to achieve intimacy.

• Maya Angelou. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. Bantam, 1980.

A moving portrayal of incest and its effects within a novel which celebrates life.

• Margaret Dickson. Maddy’s Song. Houghton Mifflin, 1985.

Fiction, beautifully written novel about a girl’s struggle to break free from a physically abusive father.

• Toni Morrison. The Bluest Eye. Pocket Books, 1970.

Fiction, novel about a young survivor.

• Anna C. Salter. Transforming Trauma. Sage Publications, Delhi, 1995.

A Guide to Understanding and Treating Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

• Bill Gillham. The Facts About Child Sexual Abuse. Cassell Educational Ltd., London, 1991.

Basic, and now a trifle outdated, but deft handbook using studies conducted in Great Britain.

• Lorraine Waterhouse (ed.), Child Abuse and Child Abusers: Protection and Prevention. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London, 1996.
• Anne Bannister (ed.), From Hearing to Healing: Working with the Aftermath of Child Sexual Abuse. John Wiley & Sons, England, 1998.
• Wattam, Hughes & Blagg (ed.), Child Sexual Abuse: Listening, Hearing and Validating the Experiences of Children. John Wiley & Sons, England.
• Parton & Wattam (ed.), Child Sexual Abuse: Responding to the Experiences of Children. John Wiley & Sons, England.
• C.B. Drauker. Counselling Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse. Sage, Delhi, 1996.
• David Finkelhor. A Source Book on Child Abuse. Sage, Delhi, 1986.
• David Finkelhor (ed.), The Dark Side of Families: Current Family Violence Research. Sage, Delhi, 1983.

Helplines

In an earlier chapter—Dealing with Disclosure—parents are taken through what to look for in a psychiatrist or any other kind of mental health professional. There are four very detailed paragraphs for the father and mother who decide to seek external help for their sexually abused child. Please know that those same paras would hold equally true for the student or adult who has been sexually abused in childhood and has yet to live strong. The child in them deserves corresponding consideration.

However, there are less than a handful of specialists across India who can claim to be experts on counselling children, teenagers or adults who are victims of Child Sexual Abuse. Certainly, there are those who counsel college students and adults who have been sexually abused as children, though this might not be their only area of work. Counselling adults who were victims of Child Sexual Abuse is both, taxing and time-consuming for both, the professional and the patient. Therefore, additional care has to be taken to ensure that the professionals are caring and concerned individuals; equally important, these doctors must say they do not prescribe drugs unless very necessary.