A Secret Life by Les Harrison (1994)
Requirements: MOBI / ePUB reader, 396 kb
Overview: A Secret Life compellingly recreates the story of ‘Tom’, a man who, sexually abused as a child, went on to become a convicted incest offender himself. A unique collaboration between therapist-writer and a man confronting his own past and responsibility, A Secret Life offers the reader first-hand access and insight into this difficult subject. Through Tom’s own words, letters, transcripts of clinical interviews, commentary and narrative passages, Les Harrison (Tom’s therapist) builds up a devastating picture of the forces and events that came together in influencing Tom’s life and behaviour.
The reader meets Tom, not primarily as a clinical subject, but as a son, brother, husband, father. While insisting on the personal responsibility of child sexual abusers, Les Harrison, and Tom’s story, leave the reader little moral high ground; the questions the book poses include: Who, given Tom’s circumstances, might not offend? And, what is our collective responsibility in the care and protection of children?
Passionate and highly readable A Secret Life is an important and timely contribution to the understanding of incest and child abuse.
Genre: Biography / Autobiography
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