1st Edition
Talking about non-recent child sexual abuse Survivor, Clinician and Researcher perspectives
Introduction
Daniel Taggart & Joanne Stubley
Section One: Scene setting
01. Survivors Speak About Trust and the (un)Trustworthiness of Service Providers -
Susanna Alyce
02. What is meant by Disclosure
Emma Facer-Irwin
03. “To think about what we are doing”- Childhood sexual abuse and disciplinary trustworthiness
Daniel Taggart
04. Disclosure and Recovery
Laura Salter
Section Two: Intersectionality
05. Disclosure and Difference: barriers based in minority experience
Michael May
06. “I didn’t think I had rights that protected me as a human being”. Exploring the Lived Experiences of Child Sexual Abuse in Ethnic Minority Communities
Kiki Hassen
07. Shooting the Messenger and The Curse of Cassandra: The Impact of childhood and adult rape and torture on adults who report mind control, abuse by psychotherapists, homophobic and transgender abuse.
Section three: Words and silence
08. Why language matters while talking about trauma.
Maria Podlejska-Eyres
09. Silent, silenced, and silencing: Understanding society’s silences, how survivors are silenced, and why some survivors remain silent through memoirs of child sexual abuse.
William Tantam
Section four: Clinical Perspectives
10. Shame and Neglect
Sara Scott
11. What can we Learn from Children about the Disclosure of Trauma and Abuse?
Jess Chown
12. Challenging the binaries in relational trauma
Nicola Godwin
Section five: the Professionals
13. Communications From the Edge of Disclosure: Responses in art from psychotherapists working in an NHS specialist service for adult survivors of child sexual abuse.
Maggie Schaedel
14. The importance and struggle for teams to think reflectively when working with people who have experienced childhood sexual abuse.
Louise Allnutt
Section six: Systemic and social perspectives
15. Repetitions and Re-enactments of NRCSA trauma within the mental health system.
Joanne Stubley
16.Interrupting Silence: Tuning in to the movements calling out for change.
Khadija Rouf
17. Contagions of shame, dignity and connection: Working in the field of childhood sexual abuse
Daniel Taggart and Katie Wright
Biography
Dr Daniel Taggart is a reader in clinical psychology at the University of Essex. He previously worked as the clinical lead for the Truth Project and principal psychologist at the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse.
Dr Joanne Stubley is a medical psychotherapist and psychoanalyst. She is the lead clinician of the Tavistock Trauma Service and has co-chaired the Royal College of Psychiatrists expert reference group on NRCSA. She is co-author with Linda Young of Complex Trauma: the Tavistock Model which was nominated for a Gravida Award in 2022.
