Talking about non-recent child sexual abuse

This book addresses the issue of non-recent child sex abuse and its long-term
impact on adult survivors from a broadly psychodynamic perspective.

Non-recent CSA is not a subject that can or should be confined to the
clinical arena. It has legal, welfare and profound social implications, with its
impact broadening out from the survivor to the family to the community and
into wider society. The politics of power and oppression are intertwined with
the experience and may be unconsciously repeated into adult experiences,
often worsened by the interplay of intersectionality and the withdrawal of
public services and support for people with complex mental health problems.
This book has been developed to support survivors, families, practitioners
and the wider public break the social taboo around the topic of child sexual
abuse. It unites a broad range of voices to encourage better community support
and improve social services to support those impacted.

With an ethical commitment to the field, this book will appeal to clinicians
working in mental health but will also hold interest to those in other fields
such as the social sciences, as well as the interested public, and CSA survivors
in particular.