Table of Contents
A Challenge Not Destiny
a guide to empowering and healing
from sexual abuse & PTSD
by Prof. K. Elan Jung, MD
Contents
Book One
The Human Drama
Introduction
Challenge Of Sexual Trauma
Who Are The “Victims”
Leaders
Queen Elizabeth I
Howard Hughes
Eleanor Roosevelt
Oprah Winfrey
Goddesses
Marilyn Monroe
Princess Diana
Writers
Kafka
Lewis Carroll
Maya Angelou
Actors and Actresses
Angelina Jolie
Orson Welles
Teri Hatcher
Singers and Dancers
Michael Jackson
Madonna
Billie Holiday
On The Fringes of Creativity And Destruction
Traci Lords
Courtney Love
Anti-Universes, Private Hells
Charles Manson
Jeffrey Dahmer
Book Two
Cultural Phenomena & Sexual Trauma
Boundary Breakers:
Lost Generations, Beats and Freaks
Lost Generation
Beat Generation
Jack Kerouac
Allen Ginsberg
William S. Burroughs
Neal Cassady
From The Beats To The Hippies
Book Three
Cost & Prevalence
Prevalence and Cost
Cost of One Single Case of Panic Disorder
Book Four
Thousand Faces of Sexual Trauma
Introduction
Common Responses and Pathways of Sexual Trauma
Flashbacks and Dissociation
Panic Attacks
Despair of Depression
Regression: Back To Infancy
Self-Mutilation and Self-Destruction
Postpartum Depression of a Sexually
Traumatized Mother
Loveless, Torturous Sex
Suicidal Feelings
An End Of One Tormented Life
Sexual Dysfunction, Sexual Identity
Anatomy of Sexual Traumas:
Their Impact and Development
Rape By A Stranger
Molestation By A Distant Relative Priest
Molestation By The Father Of A Friend
Molestation By Uncle
Molestation By A Distant Uncle
Rape By A Distant Family Member
Date Rape
Childhood Sexplay
A Tragedy Caused By Teenaged Sexplay
Crisis of Friends and Family
An Actress Of Life
Angelina’s Broken Wings
Living With The Mood Swings:
A Husband’s Story
My Wife Was Sexually Abused:
Living With Demons
Why Do People Lie?
Manners and Social Grace
Book Five
Road Map To Recovery
Beginning Psychotherapy
Crisis Intervention
The First Step
Diagnosis And Assessment
Remembering, Recollecting, Reliving
Working Through
Flashbacks and Dissociation
Panic Attacks
Egocentric World of the Abused
Trust And Intimacy
Repetition Compulsion
Multiple Personality
Transference: One of the Cornerstones of Working Through
A Brief History
An Effort Trying To Learn “Love”
The Pain and Confusion
A Desperate Effort to Regain Feelings of Love
Tying The Loose Ends (The Recovery Phase)
Book Six
Biological Approach
Drug Therapy: A Brief Introduction
Pharmacological Treatment Of PTSD
Anxiety and Panic Disorder
Depression and Mood Swings
Dissociations, Flashbacks and Nightmares
Other Problems Frequently Related With
Sexual Trauma
The Neuropsychobiology
of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Book Seven
Sexual Trauma and Mental Illness
A Brief History
Freudian Perspective
Treatment Of Hysterics and the Birth of Psychoanalysis
Three Tenets of Freudian Psychoanalysis
A Comment On Freud’s Infantile Sexuality
Schizophrenia? Borderline Personality Disorder?
PTSD?
PTSD and Sexual Trauma, A Historical Overview
Sexual Trauma and Posttraumatic Spectrum Disorder
Book Eight
Practical Advice
Tips For Patients, Therapists and Physicians
Is Sexual Trauma Avoidable?
Some of the Characteristic Symptoms,
Signs and Traits of Sexual Trauma
Advice For Therapists
Advice For Physicians
Who Treat Sexual Trauma Patients
Advice For Patients
Advice For Parents
Caution On Courage To Heal
Glossary
Acknowledgements
About Prof. K. Elan Jung, MD
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