Die Haarspange - Leise Schreie eines missbrauchten Kindes

Therapeutic processing of a trauma suffered in childhood.

Elizabeth is burdened by the shadow of a repressed past. What she only vaguely remembers is destroying her physically and mentally. She suffers from anxiety and unbearable pain, which she tries to numb with pills and alcohol. After an agonizing and unsuccessful odyssey from therapist to therapist, she gives up in disappointment and begins a kind of self-healing process using specialist literature that has just come onto the market. She reads about 'memories that are like time bombs' and finds herself reflected in the descriptions with all her feelings and pain. At the same time, she tries to apply what she has read to her work as an educator and inevitably fails until she has worked through her own past. She finally succeeds in doing this with the help of an experienced therapist in a long-term therapy session, where she is able to accept, piece by piece, the full extent of what she has previously repressed. Trigger Warning This book contains detailed descriptions of sexual violence against children that may cause readers uncomfortable and/or disturbing feelings. If you have experienced sexual violence yourself, please consider reading this book.

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Dir Autorin arbeitete nach dem Studium der Erziehungswissenschaften in verschiedenen Einrichtungen der Öffentlichen Erziehung. Danach war sie einige Jahre für den WDR Köln als Autorin für das Jugendfernsehen tätig. Anschließend arbeitete sie zehn Jahre in einer Allgemeinmedizinischen Praxis und machte berufsbegleitend eine Ausbildung zur Masseurin. Seit 2024 ist sie im Ruhestand, aber seit sieben Jahren Jahren ehrenamtlich (teils von Hamburg aus, teils vor Ort) zu Gunsten von bedürftigen Menschen auf der griechischen Insel Korfu tätig.