Mikele Rauch is a licensed marriage, family, and child therapist with Brookline Psychological Services dealing with trauma, male and female sexual abuse, and clergy abuse. In 2004, she served on the Victims Rights Committee as a part of an Independent Review Board overseeing the Catholic Church's policies and procedures regarding survivors of clergy sexual abuse. She is a psychotherapist specializing in psychotherapy with male and female survivors of physical, sexual, and clergy abuse. She is a member of MaleSurvivor, the National Organization against Male Sexual Victimization and its International Retreat Team. She has written for the Missouri Review, the National Catholic Reporter, Cross Currents Magazine, Healing Ministry, and The New Therapist.

• Series ForewordAcknowledgmentsChapter 1 Introduction: The Nightmare of LightChapter 2 Trouble in the House of God: Trauma and the Life CycleChapter 3 Hells Prayer Room: When Religion Is the AbuserChapter 4 Spiritual Leadership and the Trance of Religious PowerChapter 5 The Blood of Angels: Psychological and Physical Abuse in the Name of GodChapter 6 This Is My Body: When Religious Violate in the Name of GodSexual and Ritual AbuseChapter 7 The Water You Want: Recovery in Four DirectionsChapter 8 The Water of LifeResourcesGlossaryNotesBibliography

Mikele Rauch is a licensed marriage, family, and child therapist with Brookline Psychological Services dealing with trauma, male and female sexual abuse, and clergy abuse. In 2004, she served on the Victims Rights Committee as a part of an Independent Review Board overseeing the Catholic Church's policies and procedures regarding survivors of clergy sexual abuse. She is a psychotherapist specializing in psychotherapy with male and female survivors of physical, sexual, and clergy abuse. She is a member of MaleSurvivor, the National Organization against Male Sexual Victimization and its International Retreat Team. She has written for the Missouri Review, the National Catholic Reporter, Cross Currents Magazine, Healing Ministry, and The New Therapist.

• Series ForewordAcknowledgmentsChapter 1 Introduction: The Nightmare of LightChapter 2 Trouble in the House of God: Trauma and the Life CycleChapter 3 Hells Prayer Room: When Religion Is the AbuserChapter 4 Spiritual Leadership and the Trance of Religious PowerChapter 5 The Blood of Angels: Psychological and Physical Abuse in the Name of GodChapter 6 This Is My Body: When Religious Violate in the Name of GodSexual and Ritual AbuseChapter 7 The Water You Want: Recovery in Four DirectionsChapter 8 The Water of LifeResourcesGlossaryNotesBibliography

Mikele Rauch is a licensed marriage, family, and child therapist with Brookline Psychological Services dealing with trauma, male and female sexual abuse, and clergy abuse. In 2004, she served on the Victims Rights Committee as a part of an Independent Review Board overseeing the Catholic Church's policies and procedures regarding survivors of clergy sexual abuse. She is a psychotherapist specializing in psychotherapy with male and female survivors of physical, sexual, and clergy abuse. She is a member of MaleSurvivor, the National Organization against Male Sexual Victimization and its International Retreat Team. She has written for the Missouri Review, the National Catholic Reporter, Cross Currents Magazine, Healing Ministry, and The New Therapist.

• Series ForewordAcknowledgmentsChapter 1 Introduction: The Nightmare of LightChapter 2 Trouble in the House of God: Trauma and the Life CycleChapter 3 Hells Prayer Room: When Religion Is the AbuserChapter 4 Spiritual Leadership and the Trance of Religious PowerChapter 5 The Blood of Angels: Psychological and Physical Abuse in the Name of GodChapter 6 This Is My Body: When Religious Violate in the Name of GodSexual and Ritual AbuseChapter 7 The Water You Want: Recovery in Four DirectionsChapter 8 The Water of LifeResourcesGlossaryNotesBibliography