The Wounded Heart: Hope for Adult Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse

by Dan B. Allender

Publisher:

NavPress

, 2008

Overview

You may think you don’t know anyone who has been sexually abused, but the statistics indicate otherwise. The Wounded Heart is an intensely personal and specific look at this most “soul-deadening” form of abuse. Personal because it may be affecting you, your spouse, a close friend, a neighbor, or someone you know well at church; specific because it goes well beyond the general issues and solutions discussed in other books.

Dr. Allender’s book reaches deep into the wounded heart of someone you know, exploring the secret lament of the soul damaged by sexual abuse and pointing to Jesus’ hope.

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Key Features

• Practical tools and a biblical focus to heal and restore
• Numerous real-life stories
• Foreword by Dr. Larry Crabb
• Information about false memory issues

Contents

Top Highlights

“All sin is felt to be reasonable and justifiable, given the situation, and rarely experienced as malicious or God-dishonoring in its intention.” (Page 73)

“Again, the answer is a hunger for more. God has made us with a natural desire to be as He is: alive, righteous, pure, passionate, loving. To honor what God has called us to be is the reason a man or woman chooses the path of change.” (Page 45)

“Repeated exposure to inaccurate information about internal realities leads to a mistrust of one’s own feelings and intuition.” (Page 126)

“Contempt is condemnation, an attack against the perceived cause of the shame.” (Page 74)

“The person who plaintively cries out from her core, ‘Lord, see if there be any secret, harmful way in me,’ will eventually be blessed with a picture of her sin and God’s nurturing provision of grace.” (Pages 78–79)

Praise for the Print Edition

These powerful pages bring the realities of damaging human experience into the perspective of a loving God. With professional skill and spiritual insight from the crucible of experience, Dr. Allender blends a keen understanding of the dynamics of sexual abuse with the practical application of Christian truth. An excellent and timely book!

—John Powell, professor, Counseling Center, Michigan State University

Dr. Allender acts as a true surgeon of the soul in making a diagnosis which, while compassionate, is never sentimental. He brings the wounded survivor of abuse to the Great Physician for healing. I welcome this book: a next step for those who have begun the healing process, and a place to start for others.

—Maxine Hancock, author of Child Sexual Abuse

Product Details

• Title: The Wounded Heart: Hope for Adult Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse
• Author: Dan B. Allender
• Publisher: NavPress
• Publication Date: 2008
• Pages: 272

About Dan B. Allender

Dan B. Allender received his MDiv from Westminster Theological Seminary and his PhD in counseling psychology from Michigan State University. Dan taught biblical counseling at Grace Theological Seminary for seven years (1983–1989). From 1989 to 1997, Dan worked as a professor in the Master of Arts in Biblical Counseling program at Colorado Christian University in Denver, Colorado. Currently, Dan serves as a professor of counseling psychology at The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology in Seattle, Washington.