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![]() ![]() ![]() Allender calls the path to wholeness, 'The unlikely route to joy.' He proposes a path of health and spirituality that empowers victims to face shame and their response of contempt. The book presents, from a Christian perspective, the coming to terms with past sexual abuse and the ultimate reclamation of the soul. He unfolds scripturaly conservative path of therapy that reverses the posttraumatic response to flee intimacy, vulnerability and loss of control. He interlaces a scriptural perspective that relates the person's current response to powerlessness, betrayal and shame to the traumatic event. The focuses on the effects that childhood abuse has on the adult restores power and choice to the adult victim. ![]() Written from a Christian evangelical orientation, the text provides the clinician a clear and in depth understanding of the unique wound of sexual abuse and the pathway to wholeness. Allender explains in detail the processes of seduction, vulnerability, injury and healing. The Wounded Heart is a book that visits the painful realities of sexual abuse with intellectual accuracy, spiritual integrity and compassion. ![]()
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