Psychological trauma caused by sexual abuse is our single most misunderstood and mistreated condition, directly or indirectly affecting tens of millions. Most victims live with the stigma of the resultant “insanity,” and deeply rooted shame, guilt and self-torture, their lives permeated by a frightening secret they carry buried within. In spite of its enormous prevalence, social costs and human suffering, sexual trauma has been mistreated, misdiagnosed and mismanaged by professionals, victims and their families.
Sexual Trauma: A Challenge Not Insanity, A Revolutionary Approach to Treatment & Recovery from
Sexual Abuse & PTSD, by Prof. K. Elan Jung, MD, first tells the story of famous leaders, writers, actors, singers, dancers and other creative, powerful people are among the victims of sexual trauma who have triumphed over their past by creatively transforming their pain. From these stories will come a starling new recognition and perspective on the victims of sexual trauma, people who are not merely victims, but often dynamic individuals who changed our world, like the Lost Generation of the 1920s or the Beat Generation of the 1940s and 1950s
Sexual Trauma: A Challenge Not Insanity, A Revolutionary Approach to Treatment & Recovery from
Sexual Abuse & PTSD, then considers how we understand sexual trauma, its psychiatric consequences and how that has been changed and undermined over the years by psychiatric fads. Prof. Jung also cogently explains how symptoms of a special type of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder that victims experience are routinely confused with their cause, how those causes affect victims and the only proper way to treat the victims of sexual trauma. He concludes with advice for the victims of sexual trauma, their families and friends and the professionals who treat them.
Sexual Trauma: A Challenge Not Insanity, A Revolutionary Approach to Treatment & Recovery from
Sexual Abuse & PTSD, is a thought provoking landmark book that is certain to change not only our perceptions of the victims of sexual trauma, but also the great impact those people have had on our world.
Sexual Trauma: A Challenge, Not Insanity
A Revolutionary Approach to Treatment & Recovery from
Sexual Abuse & PTSD
by Prof. K. Elan Jung, MD
Few people have the depth of experience and knowledge of sexual trauma and its consequences than Prof. K. Elan Jung, MD. A medical school professor of Psychiatry and researcher with close to forty years of daily clinical experience, Prof. Jung has treated hundreds of actual victims of child sexual abuse and trauma. He has shared their pain and sorrow, seen their suffering, but also the joy of their triumphs over a terrible challenge.
Prof. K. Elan Jung has been a practicing psychiatrist, treating patients on a daily basis, for almost forty years. A researcher and professor of psychiatry at The Albany Medical College, he was also a military surgeon in Vietnam.
The honors he has received include New York Physician of the Year, 2006, Congressional medal of distinction, 2006, Americas Top Psychiatrists Award, 2005, 2006, New York State Senate Liberty Award, 2009, and The Leading Physicians of the World, 2009.
He has written and presented papers at scientific conferences and is He practices in Queensbury, New York. His other writing interests include a screenplay he has written, Primal Scream.
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