Adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse suffer a multitude of long-term effects, including distorted ideas about sexuality, inappropriate sexualized behaviors, fragmented identity, and feelings of powerlessness and betrayal (Olafson & Boat, 2000). Victimization influences an individuals self-concept, is associated with increased use of image-distorting defenses such as dissociation, denial, and projective identification, and increases the likelihood of future abuse. The current study sought to explore the cycle of abuse by examining implicit and explicit measures of intimacy among female...
Adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse suffer a multitude of long-term effects, including distorted ideas about sexuality, inappropriate sexualized...
For Flora a marriage to Mars would save her from her father's machinations - for Mars it would be sweet revenge on the man who had ruined his family. However, even the best laid plans can go wrong
For Flora a marriage to Mars would save her from her father's machinations - for Mars it would be sweet revenge on the man who had ruined his family. ...
It is a simple trick-Elizabeth Mary will take the place of her older sister Mary Elizabeth. She will marry the Lord Edward Hinchcliffe, pretending to be Mary. He will never discover the plot...Mary can then do what she promises, enter a Convent. Only, the best laid plans often go astray and Elizabeth Mary finds the deception leads her into terrible danger. The Lord Hinchcliffe is no fool and he is a stern taskmaster who prides honesty above all virtues.
It is a simple trick-Elizabeth Mary will take the place of her older sister Mary Elizabeth. She will marry the Lord Edward Hinchcliffe, pretending to ...
Kate knows she is dicing with danger. If the Lancastrian Lord who has been granted the house and land of her deceased husband, discovers the truth of her "stepson's birth, both their lives will be forfeit. A romantic historical suspense of love and intrigue set in the turbulent 1480's.
Kate knows she is dicing with danger. If the Lancastrian Lord who has been granted the house and land of her deceased husband, discovers the truth of ...
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure. Men love in haste but they detest at Leisure." Lord Byron In this thrilling contemporary romantic suspense by author Margaret Blake, Viola is hiding her true identity but the man who hates her is on her trail. Strange things are happening. Her life is unraveling and there is little she can do about it. Viola has lived in fear and deceit but then Jed tries to make her see life doesn't have to be like that. Can she believe him when his family is involved with the man determined to ruin her?
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure. Men love in haste but they detest at Leisure." Lord Byron In this thrilling contemporary romantic suspense ...
It is shocking for Helena to realize that, after being divorced for 8 years, she is still irresistibly attracted to her ex-husband after they meet again. But Andreas is still bitter and angry about the past. He still recalled the humiliation he had felt when she had left him. The cruelty of a friend's jest that Andreas had taken the youngest mare from the stable but had not known how to ride it." Yet when Helena saw him she saw only that "he looked vaguely older, a little more harassed than he had been in the past. His body was the same, it exuded strength and a touch of the primitive that...
It is shocking for Helena to realize that, after being divorced for 8 years, she is still irresistibly attracted to her ex-husband after they meet aga...