Product Description
An unsettling, fascinating journey into the mind and soul of a woman who fights passionately to break the chains of an abusive childhood and to overcome the effects of an incestuous attack. A book of struggle that becomes a song of liberation.
From the Publisher
Barbara Rogers shares in her book her experience of liberating and changing her life through therapy. Her book is a milestone in creating awareness about the unconsious, the great, hidden power that stores our awareness and true reactions to the abuses we suffered, above all as children, as well as the truths within about ourselves and our lives that we need to face, and the dreams we want to realize. An unusual sequence of poems takes the reader on a journey of making the unconscious conscious; of becoming aware of the true feelings and needs of a human being, who was not allowed to have or be aware of them; of changing a life to embrace and make come true the values that could not exist in the dark world where the writer came from. The author has given voice to the childhood pain that does not dare to venture outside of the therapist’s office—if it is at all welcome, and encouraged to come out, in there. If we want to decrease the role of violence in our society, we must treat our children without violence, be it physical, sexual or emotional. We must condemn and ban violence from our children’s lives to provide them the experience of growing up loved. Society must discuss, recognize honestly, and become aware of the horrendous consequences of child abuse, for the individual child, his or her later life, and for society. -Very powerful; compelling; intensely honest. Your book will make a lot of difference for a lot of people-, is the comment of the writer Ken Levinson.
From the Author
My book is the result of overcoming tremendous fears. These screams were not only forbidden by my parents, but there was also no one around me who wanted to hear them, much less do something about them. Until I entered therapy at the age of thirty two, I had drugged my unconscious and my feelings away. I had never remembered a dream and recalled my first, unforgattable dream about three months into therapy. It was a tremendous struggle to face my feelings and to deal with what they revealed about my past. But with time, my feelings and needs addressed my present life, too, and what I needed to change. The more I got in touch with my true feelings and needs, the more conscious I became, and the stronger my quest grew to put my life on a very different foundation and course. With my book I want to encourage others to trust their unconscious and courageous therapists, who dare to listen to these screams and are not afraid to look at the horrific reality in which too many of us have grown up and are still growing up. I hope that my book helps to create a new awareness of the kind of feelings and destructiveness, which emotional, physical, and sexual cruelty and irresponsibility creates in children. I hope that it helps many others listen to their own screams and take them seriously. I wish that it encourages therapists to face their own pasts and those of their clients without fear and with the knowledge and conviction that they are supporting mankind in one of the most important endeavors of our time—to confront and change the damage which cruel child rearing practices have on our souls and lives.
About the Author
Barbara Rogers was born in 1950 in Germany. She has lived in the United States for twenty years. She also spends time in Mexico. She is active as a piano teacher, chamber musician, photographer, painter and writer. Her essay about confronting her family's past and about parts of her life journey is called -Facing a Wall of Silence-. It is published in the book -Second Generation Voices- , edited by Naomi and Alan Berger, published in 2001 by Syracuse University Press.
