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'Drawing on his extensive experience of working with male survivors of sexual violation, Alan Corbett has produced a rich and moving volume that casts light on this much-neglected area of clinical work. This book is a powerful reminder of the dangers of dividing patients into good victims and bad offenders, and forces us to recognise the powerful splitting forces that sexual abuse induces. Building on a compelling history of the abuse of boys and men through the centuries, the book locates itself firmly in the twenty-first century, casting light on the many ways in which abuse is being perpetrated through new avenues such as social media, and somatised through gender confusion, sexual compulsion, and profound depression. I recommend this book not just to clinicians working with male survivors, but to all those working with men.'-- Estela Welldon, Founder and Honorary Elected President for Life of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy'Alan Corbett has been a leading pioneer in the field of intellectual disability, psychotherapy, and abuse for the last two decades. This book is a tour de force by a fine thinker in his prime.'-- Dr Valerie Sinason, Founder, Clinic for Dissociative Studies, President of the Institute of Psychotherapy and Disability

In this brilliant, carefully researched and highly original book, Corbett has indeed made the invisible visible, and brought out of the shadows those survivors of, at times, unimaginable trauma. All clinicians working with the impact of early abuse, and its ripples across the lifespan, will find this book both a source of wisdom and hope. I found it immensely moving. - Anna Motz, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

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Dr Alan Corbett was Chair of the Training Committee of the Institute of Psychotherapy and Disability, and a member of the Training Committee of the Guild of Psychotherapists. He was Director of Respond, National Clinical Director of the CARI Foundation, and Clinical Director of ICAP. He was a training analyst and supervisor, a psychotherapist with the School of Life, Consultant Psychotherapist with the Clinic for Dissociative Studies, and consulted to a wide range of organisations. He also taught on a number of psychoanalytic trainings in Britain and Ireland, lectured internationally and published widely on disability, psychotherapy and trauma.

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