# The Secret Trauma

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- Authors: [Diana E H Russell](https://www.bookquiver.com/diana-e-h-russell)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 1987-10-29

## Description

The Secret Trauma remains the definitive argument for the overwhelming prevalence of incestuous abuse. Based on findings about San Francisco, the book makes a persuasive case for an epidemic of abuse on a national scale. In her nuanced and sophisticated analysis, Russell carefully explores the complex variables of incestuous abuse: the changing incidence of abuse over time, the severity of th abuse, the victim's age, factors of class, race, and ethnicity, and long term effects on victims. In a new introduction to the revised edition, Russell takes on the most important issue to arise in the field since the book was originally published in 1986: the serious backlash that followed the outpouring of reports by victims/survivors, and the controversy over false accusations and false memories."

## Editions

### The Secret Trauma

- Publisher: basic_books
- ISBN: 978-04-6507-596-6
- Pages: 1
- Published: 1987-10-29
- Language: en_GB