Titlebook: Contesting Stories of Childhood Sexual Abuse; Jo Woodiwiss Book 2009 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2009 c

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Choosing a Story: Making Sense, Finding Evidence,d subplots, before going on to select from a cast of possible characters that includes both victims and villains. In telling our stories we all continually re-construct our selves and our life stories in an ongoing process of re-interpreting our lives, both in the past and the present, but whatever

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Making Contact: Knowledge and the Inner Child, not totally alien to them. The inner child, in some form, is a pervasive presence in many aspects of contemporary culture. She can be found in the pages of popular literature, autobiographies and magazines, on both the small and large screen through her appearance in TV soaps, films, docudramas and

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The Contradictory Self, paradoxically, at the same time as we are being urged to work on this self, we are urged to embark on a journey of discovery, to uncover our true, or core self. This is the contradictory self of the self-help and the CSA recovery literature (Woodiwiss 2005). In this chapter I look at these contradi

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Healing and Growing Up,ermined at the same time as we are encouraged to connect with it. No longer limited to seeking help to cope with difficult and traumatic experiences we are increasingly encouraged to seek help to cope with everyday ups and downs. Suggesting we need therapy to cope with or survive ordinary or mundane

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A Role for the Storytellers, their lives. They may have been constrained by stories that can be told and the narrative frameworks available to them (Bauman 2001, Gergen 1994, Plummer 1995, 2001) but they were nonetheless actively engaged in constructing their own stories — stories which owe more to our contemporary storying of

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Introduction,ry and therapeutic discourses and the role they themselves play in the construction and use of abuse narratives whether they have, by their own definition, continuous, recovered or false memories. These are the women whose voices have been largely absent from the debates around recovery and the reco

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