Long Shadow of Sexual Abuse

Calvin A. Colarusso, MD, is clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Diego and training and supervising analyst in adult and child psychoanalysis at the San Diego Psychoanalytic Institute. In the private practice of adult and child psychiatry and psychoanalysis in San Diego since 1973, Colarusso is the author of fifty professional articles and five books on adult and child development. For the past thirty years he has served as an expert witness in civil suits, including approximately one hundred cases related to child sexual abuse.

W.B. Yeats once wrote, 'The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.' We wish this were so. Those who perpetrate child sexual abuse—whether the lonesome and forlorn or the predatory—are the morbid and timeless contaminants of the beauty and innocence we so cherish in our children. Dr. Calvin Colarusso, the eminent psychoanalyst and pioneer in adult development, brings a passion, depth, and clarity to one of the great scourges of our era, the developmental sequelae of child sexual abuse.

• Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 3 Chapter 2: The First Decade of LifeChapter 4 Chapter 3: Adolescence—Ages Twelve to TwentyChapter 5 Chapter 4: Three Adolescent Case StudiesChapter 6 Chapter 5: Young AdulthoodChapter 7 Chapter 6: The Decade of the ThirtiesChapter 8 Chapter 7: Middle Adulthood—Ages Forty to Sixty-FiveChapter 9 Chapter 8: The Sexual Abuse of Six Girls by a ClergymanChapter 10 Chapter 9: Four Sisters—The Effect of Chronic Childhood Sexual Abuse on Fifty Years of Adolescent and Adult DevelopmentChapter 11 Bibliography