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1. Hard Knocks

   Domestic Violence and the Psychology of Storytelling

   By Janice Haaken

   Series: Women and Psychology

   This book draws on interviews carried out over a period of eight years, as well as novels, films, and domestic violence literature, to explain the role of storytelling in the history of the battered women’s movement. The author shows how cultural contexts shape how stories about domestic abuse get...

   Published April 27th 2010 by Routledge
2. Memory Matters

   Contexts for Understanding Sexual Abuse Recollections

   Edited by Janice Haaken, Paula Reavey

   This book is grounded in the debates of the 1980s and 1990s that surrounded recollections of childhood sexual abuse, particularly those that emerged in the context of psychotherapy. When growing numbers of therapists claimed that they were recovering deeply repressed memories of early sexual...

   Published July 16th 2009 by Routledge