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Understanding and Treating Military Sexual Trauma by Kristen Zaleski
This authoritative update presents current findings on―and clinically and ethically sound responses to―the epidemic of sexual assault in the military. It examines in powerful detail how military...
Leaping Upon the Mountains: Men Proclaiming Victory over Sexual Child Abuse by Mike Lew
Presenting the first real investigation of what male sexual assault survivors themselves identify as most important during various stages of recovery, Leaping upon the Mountains contains...
Rewind, Rebound: A Teenage Guy's Book for Dealing with Sexual Abuse Paperback by Leslie Baily Wright
Rewind, Rebound is a powerful, honest, and supportive guide for teenage male survivors of sexual abuse. In their two previous books, Shining Through and Back on Track, authors Mindy Loiselle and...
I'm Not Broken: A Memoir by Jesse Leon
Born to indigenous working-class Mexican immigrants in San Diego in the 1970s, Jesse Leon’s childhood was violently ruptured. A dangerous and harrowing encounter at a local gift shop when he was...
The Little Boy in the Red Sweater: My Journey Through Sexual Abuse by Carl Huhta
When I started writing a blog over ten years ago, I never dreamed, I would be sharing so much of myself in my own posts. I mostly thought, it would have bits about my life, or the news of current...
When Women Sexually Abuse Men: The Hidden Side of Rape, Stalking, Harassment, and Sexual Assault Illustrated
by Philip W. Cook & Tammy L. Hodo
Revealing the shocking and detailed accounts of how adult women stalk, sexually assault, and even rape adult men, this book portrays an eye-opening reality: women can act as aggressive predators...
Childhood Trauma and the Non-Alpha Male - Gender Role Conflict, Toxic Shame, and Complex Trauma by Douglas W. Carpenter
The social perception of masculinity is very black and white: one is either an Alpha Male or a Beta Male, and there can be no variation. However, this is not the reality of masculinity in today's...

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وَنَحْنُ نُحِبُّ الحَيَاةَ..... إذَا مَا اسْتَطَعْنَا إِلَيْهَا سَبِيلاَ

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