Father-Daughter Incest

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by Judith Lewis Herman

Harvard University Press

Due/Published May 2000, 320 pages, paper

ISBN 0674002709

With a new afterword. (S00)

Through an intensive clinical study of forty incest victims and numerous interviews with professionals in mental health, child protection, and law enforcement, Judith Herman develops a composite picture of the incestous family. In a new afterword, Herman offers a thorough overview of the knowledge that has developed about incest and other forms of sexual abuse since this book was first published. Reviewing the extensive research literature that demonstrates the validity of incest survivors' sometimes repressed and recovered memories, she challenges the rhetoric and methods of the backlash movement against incest survivors, and the concerted attempt to deny the events they find the courage to describe.