Recommended reading
Below is a selection of recommended books for survivors and their supporters. They should be available to order online and from bookshops.
Survivors of rape and sexual assault
- The rape recovery handbook: Step-by-step help for survivors of sexual assault, Aphrodite Matsakis
- Recovering from rape, Linda Ledray
- I never called it rape, Robin Warshaw
Self-help and recovery from trauma
- 8 key steps to trauma recovery, Babette Rothschild
- Healing trauma: A pioneering programme for restoring the wisdom of your body, Peter Levine
- Invisible heroes: Survivors of trauma and how they heal, Belleruth Naparstek
- Healing rage: Women making inner peace possible, Ruth King
- Mindfulness, John Kabot-Zinn
Survivors of childhood sexual abuse
- The courage to heal: A guide for women and men survivors of child sexual abuse, Ellen Bass and Laura Davis
- Beginning to heal: A first book for men and women who were sexually abused as children, Ellen Bass and Laura Davis
- The courage to heal workbook: For women and men survivors of child sexual abuse, Ellen Bass and Laura Davis
- Breaking free workbook: Practical help for survivors of child sexual abuse, Carolyn Ainscough and Kay Toon
- The survivors guide to sex, Staci Haines
Family, friends and partners
- Allies in healing: when the person you love was sexually abused as a child, Laura Davis
- Ghosts in the bedroom: A guide for partners of incest survivors, Ken Graber
- Strong mothers: a resource for mothers and carers of children who have been sexually assaulted, Anne Peake and Marion Fletcher
- Partners in healing: A handbook for partners of rape survivors, Teri Platt