Talking about non-recent child sexual abuse

Dr Daniel Taggart is a reader in clinical psychology at the University of Essex. He previously worked as the clinical lead for the Truth Project and principal psychologist at the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse.Dr Joanne Stubley is a medical psychotherapist and psychoanalyst. She is the lead clinician of the Tavistock Trauma Service and has co-chaired the Royal College of Psychiatrists expert reference group on NRCSA. She is co-author with Linda Young of Complex Trauma: the Tavistock Model which was nominated for a Gravida Award in 2022.

• Section One: Scene setting 1. Survivors Speak About Trust and the (un)Trustworthiness of Service Providers 2. What is meant by Disclosure 3. “To think about what we are doing”- Childhood sexual abuse and disciplinary trustworthiness 4. Disclosure and Recovery Section Two: Intersectionality 5. Disclosure and Difference: barriers based in minority experience 6. “I didn’t think I had rights that protected me as a human being”. Exploring the Lived Experiences of Child Sexual Abuse in Ethnic Minority Communities 7. Shooting the Messenger and The Curse of Cassandra: The Impact of childhood and adult rape and torture on adults who report mind control, abuse by psychotherapists, homophobic and transgender abuse Section three: Words and silence 8. Why language matters while talking about trauma. 9.Silent, silenced, and silencing: Understanding society’s silences, how survivors are silenced, and why some survivors remain silent through memoirs of child sexual abuse. Section four: Clinical Perspectives 10. Shame and Neglect 11. What can we Learn from Children about the Disclosure of Trauma and Abuse? 12. Challenging the binaries in relational trauma Section five: the Professionals 13. Communications From the Edge of Disclosure: Responses in art from psychotherapists working in an NHS specialist service for adult survivors of child sexual abuse. 14. The importance and struggle for teams to think reflectively when working with people who have experienced childhood sexual abuse. Section six: Systemic and social perspectives 15. Repetitions and Re-enactments of NRCSA trauma within the mental health system. 16. Interrupting Silence: Tuning in to the movements calling out for change. 17. Contagions of shame, dignity and connection: Working in the field of childhood sexual abuse