In this book, Wendy Maltz helps survivors of sexual abuse achieve the loving and safe sexual lives they so richly deserve, taking them step-by-step through one of the most challenging aspects of recovery. Based on the author's clinical work, interviews, survey results, and workshops, this guide is filled with first-person accounts of men and women at every stage of sexual healing and includes groundbreaking exercises and techniques for survivors to work on alone or with their partners. Since its original publication, The Sexual Healing Journey has sold more than 100,000 copies. The repackage will include an updated cover, a new foreword by the author, and a revised resource section,

About the Author

Wendy Maltz, M.S.W., is a licensed clinical social worker, marriage therapist and certified sex therapist in private practice in Eugene, OR. A frequent lecturer, she is the co-author of Incest and Sexuality and is the writer and producer of Partners in Healing, a video for couples.

Reviews

Maltz, author of Incest and Sexuality (Lexington: Macmillan, 1986) offers this how-to, personal therapy book written in the form of an informative if somewhat repetitive case study. She gives concrete details on what constitutes abuse and shatters the myths surrounding double standards (e.g., actor Don Johnson being seduced by a female babysitter when he was 12 constitutes abuse, yet this ``older woman on younger boy'' style of abuse is sometimes written off). In addition to identifying the many types of abuse, Maltz demonstrates how abuse may get buried in a victim's unconscious mind and subsequently cause sexual dysfunction. She carefully deconstructs the common negative sexuality that often acts as a defense mechanism, and attempts to replace it with a healthy, positive approach to sex. Although her book is not a substitute for therapy, it can help victims of sexual abuse along the road to healing. Recommended for most libraries.-- Michael Tierno, ``Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality''

"The first book to offer sound and detailed guidelines far sexual healing... a rare, useful, and encouraging contribution." --Harriet Lerner, author of The Dance of Anger. "Men and women who have despaired that their sex lives would never change will find hope and answers in this friendly, encouraging, and essential guide." --Laura Davis, co-author of The Courage to Heal"