What's this about?

Books covering a range of psychosexual issues.

Principle of these are books dealing with the consequences of sexual abuse, particularly reclaiming your sexuality after sexual abuse.

I've added independent reviews where I could find them, plus their entry in Amazon.co.uk

I've put a thumbnail review against those that I've read myself. They're just meant to be sketches for the general reader.

I haven't put any personal rating system about how difficult these books are: all books on psychosexuality tend to make for difficult reading.

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Psychosexual Books

Freud, S. (1977). Volume 7. On Sexuality: Three essays on the theory of sexuality and other works. London: Penguin Books.
Amazon.co.uk.
Friday, N. (1991). Women on top: How real life has changed women's sexual fantasies. London: Hutchinson.
Amazon.co.uk (Reviews).
Friday, N. (1993). Men in love: Men's sexual fantasies – the triumph of love over rage. London: BCA.
Amazon.co.uk (Reviews).

Sexual Abuse Books

Davies, L. (1990). The courage to heal workbook: For women and men survivors of child sexual abuse. New York, NY: HarperCollins.
A detailed catalogue of exercises for the abused to help them come to terms with their experiences. Not as supportive as Maltz (2001), or as sexually educational as Hains (1999). Controversial in its promotion of recovering from repressed memories, following on from the original Courage to .
Amazon.co.uk (Reviews), Review (IPT), Review (Scheaffer), Review and Correspondence (Crews and the Author), Review (StopBadTherapy.com), Review (Ankes-um-amum).
Haines, S. (1999). The survivor's guide to sex: How to have an empowered sex life after childhood sexual abuse. San Francisco, CA: Cleis Press.
Complete open and frank guide to recovering control of your sexuality after sexual abuse, from a somatic perspective.
Amazon.co.uk (Reviews).
Hunter, M. (1990). Abused boys: The neglected victims of sexual abuse. New York, NY: Fawcett Books.
Good analysis on the impact of sexual abuse in the first part. The second part is more difficult, as the individual narratives are so uniformly desperate. The book isn't as supportive as Maltz (2001).
Amazon.co.uk (Reviews), Review (Wozniak), Review (Abraham).
Maltz, W. (2001). The sexual healing journey: A guide for survivors of sexual abuse (revised ed.). New York, NY: HarperCollins.
Brilliant sympathetic guide to recovering your sexuality from abuse. Maltz not merely takes you by the hand, but anticipates fears, doubts and discounts, and works to comprehensively reclaim sexual identity and sexual confidence.
Amazon.co.uk (Reviews).
Maltz, M. & Boss, S. (2001). Private thoughts: Exploring the power of women's sexual fantasies (revised ed.). Novato, CA: New World Library.
Analyses women's fantasies by type, and discusses the positive effects they can have, and how to take control of them and change them when they a negative impact.
Amazon.co.uk.