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By Richard B. Gartner

With compassion and readability, Richard Gartner stocks insights from years of operating with male survivors. between this book's maximum strengths is the wide use of examples from Dr. Gartner's medical perform to demonstrate difficulties and strategies at the route to therapeutic. past Betrayal bargains aid, encouragement, and worthy talents to males in recovery.
--Mike Lew, M.Ed., writer of sufferers now not and jumping upon the Mountains

""If you've been sexually abused, this booklet provide you with info, desire, path, and most significantly, the reassurance that you're not on my own. Dr. Gartner has written an available, compassionate booklet that basically lays out the therapeutic method for males who have been damage or abused as teenagers. no matter if you have been abused by means of a mom, a camp counselor, a local boy, or a clergyman, past Betrayal offers you the instruments you must reclaim your existence and movement on. if you are going to take one publication with you at the therapeutic trip, this could be the one.""
--Laura Davis, coauthor of The braveness to Heal and writer of The braveness to Heal Workbook

""Compassionate, insightful, and hopeful, past Betrayal shines a brilliant mild. it's a must-read for someone concerned.""
--Kenneth M. Adams, Ph.D., writer of Silently Seduced

""Beyond Betrayal cuts throughout the disgrace, confusion, false impression, and worry that so usually accompany the abuse of men and replaces them with transparent details. i'll start to use it instantly with my sufferers and imagine that different clinicians will accomplish that as well.""
--Christine A. Courtois, Ph.D., writer of therapeutic the Incest Wound and memories of Sexual Abuse

""Beyond Betrayal bargains males effortless phrases of desire and a significant technique to conquer the invisibility, stigma, and disgrace they've got persisted. Many males and their households will locate this e-book a therapeutic aid.""
--Jack Drescher, M.D., writer of Psychoanalytic treatment and the homosexual Man

""Dr. Gartner writes in a way any reader will locate obtainable. not just does he comprehend the subject of men, sexual abuse, and restoration, yet he can clarify it to those that have to know.""
--Dr. Mic Hunter, writer of Abused Boys and editor of grownup Survivors of Sexual Abuse: remedy Innovations

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Maybe you see others in a distorted manner, overemphasizing their failures and misinterpreting their intentions. Maybe you idealize them, failing to see them as ordinary human beings. Or maybe you allow yourself to be recurringly victimized in everyday life. Maybe you have difficulty maintaining close and intimate friendships or good relationships with employers and coworkers. Relationship problems affect your outlook on life. They isolate you, feed your anger, deepen your sense of hopelessness, and reinforce your inner sense that you’re a victim.

They may even boast how lucky they were to have been sexually initiated early. ) Only in adulthood do they connect current life problems back to their victimization. Jared: Remembering How It Really Felt As a seven-year-old, Jared met a seventeen-year-old who engaged him in sex. Jared told me this made him feel happy and loved. He’d been a very lonely little boy. But was he loved? He revealed a disturbing fact while describing these feelings of acceptance and love. When they were almost discovered having sex, his abuser put Jared out a window to wander home alone at night, crying—hardly a sign he cared for Jared.

Maybe you have difficulty maintaining close and intimate friendships or good relationships with employers and coworkers. Relationship problems affect your outlook on life. They isolate you, feed your anger, deepen your sense of hopelessness, and reinforce your inner sense that you’re a victim. It’s possible for boundaries to be violated even when incest doesn’t involve physical sex. For example, you may have felt seductive energy from a parent or other family member. Or you may have been exposed to sexual activities or pornography when you needed your sexual thoughts to be private and of your own choosing.

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