Father-daughter Incest: With a New Afterword

This book is excellent and hugely validating. It’s relatively easy to read for such a heavy subject matter. I’m thoroughly sick of these kinds of fathers. They throw away their duty to protect and compromise their soul to abuse. For me the bottom line is: they shouldn’t have done it but they did. Therefore they are guilty, and all the daughters are innocent.

The book is comprehensive and well organized. The author thinks and writes clearly and with conviction. I would recommend this account to anyone wishing to understand the nature of incest imposed by fathers upon daughters. Victims will gain a clearer insight into what was done to them, and should be helped by understanding the true nature of their experience, as opposed to the notions of society and the lies of the perpetrator.

This book was an informative read on what incest is, why it occurs, and how families can heal after the trauma of incest. More boys and girls are the victims of incest (over and covert) than we think.Readers of this book may also like "Jenna's Flaw," a novel about incest in a small town in the Middle West.

Up until 1986, there were only 13 peer reviewed articles on incest in the professional journals. Nobody knew much about the subject.This book was written in the 80s, when the subject was first discussed publically, by lay people as well as professionals. For the time, this book was innovative and groundbreaking.Since then, knowledge and understanding have moved on. Much of what the author says is still true but if you want more up to date thinking, look at her later books, such as Trauma and Recovery from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror, also available from Amazon.Judith Lewis Herman is regarded as the international authority on the subject.

I read this book when I was starting to get to grips with my Father's betrayal of my trust. Twenty years later I wrote  Sexual Abuse & Incest (Little Book Series of Emotional Health for Emotional Wealth) which is based on my training and professional experience and the lives of so many women trying to survive. If your Father or Step-Father touched you or spoke to you inappropriately then please do read Herman's important book. She changed my life and she might just be able to help you change yours.

I read The Body Keeps The Score a few years ago, and then forgot about it. Then randomly I remembered that in part of the book he talks about psychologists of the 1970's not thinking that incest had any affect on the children that experienced it. That took me down a rabbit hole, and I found this book which has a chapter that goes into more depth about the ways incest has been ignored by the psychological community for decades/centuries (sometimes considered "normal" or fantasy) and the deleterious effects that's had on womankind.Would recommend for counselors and survivors alike. Some people consider it common knowledge, but if it were so common would we still have so much child abuse? Incest survives because of secrecy and denial, and if you came from a family like mine, this book will be revealing.

I've purchased this book twice from Amazon but I keep receiving a book with a completely different cover than what is depicted here. If you're looking for the book with the cover shown, I'd recommend buying it elsewhere.

Für mich stellte das Buch trotz seines Alters eine gute Ausgangsbasis für die Beschäftigung mit diesem schwierigen Thema. Es stellt in auch für den Laien gut lesbarer Form Informationen aus psychologischer, soziologischer und historischer Sicht zusammen. Der Grundtenor ist (moderat) feministisch. Ein Einstieg, der einem definitiv eine spätere Vertiefung des Themas mit jüngerer bzw. speziellerer Literatur erleichtert und anregt, weil in der Knappheit natürlich vieles offen bleiben muss. Vermutlich gibt es nichts bresseres, solange ein Buches wie dieses, dieses Buch nicht in umfassend aktualisierter Form vorliegt.

I highly recommend for those affected by incest. It may have been written awhile ago but the information is still extremely relevant and has been better than therapy in many ways for me. This book has answered a lot of my questions. I don’t feel so alone.

Das Buch ist sehr umfangreich, viele Studien, ganz eindeutig von einer Fachfrau geschrieben, die Ahnung hat.Ein nicht unerheblicher Negativpunkt bleibt allerdings: der Vater als der Täter wird entsprechend dargestellt, die Mutter als Mitverantwortliche wird zu wenig entsprechend dargestellt. Oft hatte ich das Gefühl, die Mutter wird als Opfer dargestellt und die Tochter – das eigentliche Opfer – zu wenig erwähnt.