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   

    New Books From The Hudson Press   

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