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Fire of the Five Hearts

A Memoir of Treating Incest

• By Holly A. Smith

• Price: $19.95 $17.96
• Binding: Paperback
• Pages: 216
• Published by: Routledge
• Publication Date: 23rd August 2002
• ISBN: 978-1-58391-354-3

About the Book

This book is about the influence of twenty years of work in the field of incest on a therapist's professional and personal life. It is comprised of individual cases, and touches upon topics including spirituality, sex between siblings, counter-transference, and incest teams. The author shares, in unadulterated prose, her experience as an incest therapist. This important, courageous work touches upon issues important to and resonant for mental health professionals treating incest and sexual abuse as well as the incest survivor or survivor's family member.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. Ricky Still Loves Lulu

2. Isabella

3. The Sins of the Fathers Are Visited Upon the Daughters
4. Laying Down with the Offender

5."To My Haunting Ophelia, Who Brings Me to My Knees - Tie My Hands": On Esthetics, Art, and Spontaneous Weeping

6. On Siblings and Sex

7. The Therapist with Child: Transference and Counter-transference Ad Nauseum

8. On Finding a Voice

9. Falling From Grace

10. Spank Me: On Sex and the Unthinkable

11. From Field to Administration

12. Pockets of Compassion - When Mine are Empty

About the Author(s)

Holly A. Smith is the supervisor of the Boulder County Sexual Abuse Team in Colorado. She has taught graduate-level courses on the treatment of incest and sexual abuse at the Naropa Institute and has trained at the Denver University School of Social Work.