Ground-breaking Book on Recovery from Childhood Sexual Abuse is Back in Print

During the childhood and teen years, as many as one in six males endures some type of sexual abuse. The perpetrator is often a familiar and trusted male adult or teenager. The recently reissued book "Broken Boys/Mending Men: Recovery from Childhood Sexual Abuse" by Dr. Stephen D. Grubman-Black offers an open discussion of the issue.

Written for victims, as well as for parents, educators, social workers, psychologists, pediatricians, lawyers, clergy and others who wish to know more about the recognition and results of childhood sexual abuse, "Broken Boys/Mending Men: Recovery from Childhood Sexual Abuse" offers hope, support and guidance.

Filled with frank first-person accounts, it describes how sexual victimization occurs; it also reveals the painful and emotionally charged aftermath that follows the victim into adulthood. Most important, the book shows survivors ways to break their silence and heal their pain.

"This book is meant to encourage telling, so that feeling returns. It is meant to affirm for victims, survivors, and those others who care and want to help, that its okay to tell."-Dr. Stephen D. Grubman-Black

"Of all the books I have read on the subject this is by far the best one, it goes to the heart of the matter."

"This book cleared up a lot of confusion for me. This book opened my eyes to my past that my mind had blocked out. I now understand why I have done and still do some of the things I don't want to do. I was able to see what I had lost and what was taken from me."

"Broken Boys/Mending Men: Recovery from Childhood Sexual Abuse" by Dr. Stephen D. Grubman-Black, ISBN 1-930665-62-8, paperback, 168 pages, $21.95 http://www.blackburnpress.com/brokboymenme.html

Dr. Grubman-Black teaches in Communication Studies and in Womens Studies at the University of Rhode Island. He has offered workshops and trainings over the years for people affected personally and professionally by the traumas created by childhood sexual victimization.

The Blackburn Press is a relatively new publishing company, founded with the mission of keeping in print and available for purchase at reasonable prices book titles that larger publishers have lost interest in and have declared to be out of print." It specializes in scientific and technical books that are classics in their field. "Broken Boys/Mending Men: Recovery from Childhood Sexual Abuse" was first published in 1990; its frank and caring treatment of this sensitive subject is especially pertinent today.