Women's Narratives of Healing from the Effects of Child Sexual Abuse

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6.4 Crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 6.5 Second naming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 6.6 Second story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 6.7 Telling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 6.8 Complicity of the narrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 6.9 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 7 Body 139 7.1 Body Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 7.2 Interplay of body and self . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 7.3 The Resisting and Reclaimed Body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 7.4 Everyday Life as Reminders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 7.5 The Skin as a Boundary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 7.6 Process of Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 7.7 The Researcher’s Body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 7.8 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 8 Healing 166 8.1 Model of Healing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 8.1.1 Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 8.2 Transition Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 8.2.1 Receiving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 8.2.2 Naming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 8.2.3 Disrupting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 8.2.4 Reclaiming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 8.2.5 Choosing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 8.3 Readiness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 8.4 Endings and Beginnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 8.5 Healing the Physical Body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 8.6 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 9 Conclusion 181 9.1 Child Sexual Abuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 9.2 Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 9.3 Findings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 9.4 Contributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 9.5 Limitations and Strengths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 9.6 Recommendations and Future Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 9.6.1 Policy Recommendations for Public Awareness . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 9.6.2 Policy Recommendations for Actively Healing from CSA . . . . . . . 190 9.6.3 Future Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 9.7 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 References 192 A Agency Letter 197 B Letter of Invitation 198 vii
C Initial Contact Information 199 D Letter of Consent 200 E Guidelines for Questions 202 F Data/Transcript Release Form 203 Vita 204 viii
Page 1 and 2: Women’s Narratives of Healing fro
Page 3 and 4: Abstract The health of women is com
Page 5 and 6: For my parents Charlotte & Charles
Page 7: 3.1.1 Power . . . . . . . . . . . .
Page 11 and 12: List of Figures 8.1 A Model of Heal
Page 13 and 14: Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Motivati
Page 15 and 16: The therapeutic literature on recov
Page 17 and 18: analysis techniques, holistic conte
Page 19 and 20: Chapter 2 Background and Related Wo
Page 21 and 22: abuse as an issue had a personal as
Page 23 and 24: Now that the courts are more open t
Page 25 and 26: One of the main findings in a Saska
Page 27 and 28: the dilemma of the survivor of seve
Page 29 and 30: that the use of diagnostic language
Page 31 and 32: Csordas suggests the object of heal
Page 33 and 34: trajectory perspective, looking for
Page 35 and 36: emember and those who forget, and b
Page 37 and 38: three traits of body memories: marg
Page 39 and 40: Lock and Scheper-Hughes include in
Page 41 and 42: elationships and behaviours. Women
Page 43 and 44: Chapter 3 Methodology This chapter
Page 45 and 46: fixed, or a single unit, but rather
Page 47 and 48: Bloom discusses the role of power i
Page 49 and 50: detachable from the surrounding dis
Page 51 and 52: process of hearing the women tell t
Page 53 and 54: to identify a minimum of two suppor
Page 55 and 56: esearcher inquiry. Making data is a
Page 57 and 58: and there would be no way to identi
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The women’s stories of healing we
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in the silencing of women’s voice
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I chose to eliminate unnecessary de
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events or some of the issues she fa
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Overview of healing story She began
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needs, and to meet them, much as sh
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ship with her husband. She uses uni
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could not explain, all of which end
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this.” 4.9 Jennifer Jennifer is i
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told her what happened she believed
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4.12 Connie Connie is a full-time g
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Telling her story Sonshine was a de
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4.15 The Researcher and the Women
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Chapter 5 Naming, Remembering and M
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There is little public discourse of
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flashbacks; severe depression; or a
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5.1.1 Memories without a name Nine
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and I even tried with a woman too,
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my case was truly childhood sexual
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As a child, Nel remembers knowing t
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she believed that her mother saw sy
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home . . . I was sent to a neurolog
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As she said, “For me, you don’t
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She described this as not having an
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couldn’t believe, and I mean this
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In the stories, several of the wome
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was collaborative law. 3 Les found
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enough that when I went to high sch
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5.2 Support and Safety Every resear
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that they would not hurt her, and t
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an adult] I told her my story of se
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I went to the Vagina Monologues. An
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Jennifer had a sense early on in he
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The women’s stories indicate that
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if she got it again, which she woul
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Chapter 6 Restorying Life is sort o
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Table 6.1: Restorying. A Chronologi
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Les’s broader story of healing, h
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and she said ‘yes’, and he then
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For M.C., her first naming occurred
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accomplish anything but minimal tas
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For all of the women, their point o
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ecame clear that she had been sexua
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impacts, and then volunteering, whi
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as they are contained in her body t
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While a pattern was found in the wo
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Chapter 7 Body Fee fi fo she smells
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So the (memory of the) molesting ca
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she has a new way of understanding
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have a problem’(body politic), an
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to see a specialist like immediatel
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probably one of the hardest things
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I was a very promiscuous child from
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ut her main focus is cranial sacral
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from my uncle and from the rape tha
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like [breathing in a panicked manne
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For Connie, her body spoke the know
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naming, to disrupting and then recl
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when one of the research participan
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FEE FI FO Fee fi fo she smells his
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The women are healing from the effe
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social world and the individual. Th
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to ‘see’ the wind, or the norma
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meaning was attached to the experie
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the biggest rule being ‘you don
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threatening risk. This is where sup
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the master narrative of one of her
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Chapter 9 Conclusion While comparab
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transcripts were analyzed using hol
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Pattern of Healing When all fourtee
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lation to other research in the are
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The most important finding from thi
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• to investigate the relationship
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14. Kitzinger J. Transformations of
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45. Scheper-Hughes N. A Talent for
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Appendix A K.Wood 503 Copland Cresc
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When a potential research participa
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system, including self-selected pse
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Appendix F Data/Transcript Release
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