A Challenge Not Destiny Koock Jung | ISBN : 0-9839489-0-9

A Challenge Not Destiny

Author: Koock Jung

Publisher: Hudson Press, The

Publication Date: 19 August, 2011

ISBN: 9780983948902

Pages:

Subjects: Psychology, Body mind and spirit

Available as: , E-Book - EPUB, 978-0-9839489-0-2

Description:

A Challenge Not Destiny - a guide to empowering and healing from sexual abuse & PTSD, by Prof. K. Elan Jung, MD, is a roadmap to recovery for the survivors, families and friends of sexual abuse and sexual trauma. A revolutionary revisioning of society's approach to sexual abuse and sexual trauma, A Challenge Not Destiny seeks to first destigmatize having been a victim of sexual abuse and sexual trauma by focusing on the many famous survivors of sexual abuse and sexual trauma, chronicling how they have changed our world, in many cases for reasons related to having experienced sexual abuse and trauma.Prof. Jung then delves into how sexual trauma caused by sexual abuse transforms survivors, and how trends in modern psychiatry, particularly those driven by cost management practices of insurers like HMOs, ill serve sexual trauma survivors. He details that survivors are suffering from a specific kind of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, and that a specific kind of psychotherapeutic process, assisted by the use of medication when necessary, is needed. In the safe setting of the therapeutic environment survivors