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Crucial to recovery is the act of breaking the silence. "It's very important for the survivor to tell at least one other person," says Laura Davis, co-author of The Courage to Heal, the text used most often by incest survivors attempting to recover. "They don't have to tell the whole world if they don't want to." But by speaking out even a little, survivors hope they can break the cycle of shame and prevent the next generation from suffering...
Some Hispanics and blacks are working to heal the rift between them. Last July, African-American and Latino scholars and politicians met at Harvard University to air their grievances. "We are seeing that it is time for society to pay attention to Hispanics' much delayed political maturation," says Christopher Edley, a black Harvard Law School professor. "The jury is still out on how the black community will respond: Will we welcome the growing strength of a longtime ally, or will we respond by feeling threatened or displaced...
...break did not heal properly, and he would play his senior year--for which he was the Engineers' captain--with a cast on his wrist. Although he lasted through that year, tallying two assists in his only contest against Harvard, a 6-2 win in Cambridge, Tomassoni decided not to play in Italy following his college career...
...mother began sexually assaulting me when I was about five years old. The abuse was so "gentle" that it took me almost 40 years to realize that it was incest and to begin to heal from the life-devastating impact that abuse had upon me. By typifying sexual abusers as male, Ms. Viggiani is vilifying men and exonerating female perpetrators. This is the sexist side of her article...
Mike Lew is a counsellor who has written an excellent book titled Victims No Longer about male survivors of sexual abuse. This book compliments Ellen Bass' Courage to Heal, which is directed toward female survivors but has applications for male survivors as well. It would be wise for anyone dealing with sexual behavior to investigate both of these books...