Read How to deal with Child Abuse

One of the most important sources of private and personal help is to read about the types of experience other people had as children and how the professional experts in the fields of psychology and cognitive thinking would have the sufferer address it.

By reading anything relevant to the subject, it opens up our minds and it challenges the denial that exists in so many adults, despite the fact that the suffering they endured may have been decades ago.

It is true, that reading and understanding are not the same as actually behaving differently and more freely, but it is a tremendous start. The very act of buying and sitting down with a book on the subject reveals to the reader a personal willingness to begin to face what happened. It also constitutes the makings of that vital wish deep within to address it.

One book is excellent to start the process of using one’s mind to crack apart the emotional denial. "Families and How To Survive Them" is a great way to start to understand the psychological and cognitive forces at work in a family.

It is written as a conversation between a well known British actor, John Cleese and a friend and mentor Robin Skynner” SBN 10-07-49314109 Published by Cedar Books. It is chatty and very down to earth. Happy reading!