Healing Sexually Betrayed Men and Boys

Healing Sexually Betrayed Men and Boys is the new authoritative source for treatment of men and boys with histories of sexual victimization. Male victims and survivors of sexual trauma lived in shadow until the turn of the 21st century, when scandal after scandal about the sexual abuse of boys and men shed light on their suffering. These men and boys require different treatment roadmaps than their female counterparts. Yet there is little in the professional literature to help a clinician work with sexually traumatized boys and men.
Richard B. Gartner is a seasoned psychologist/psychoanalyst who has worked therapeutically with sexually abused men for over three decades. He is a clinician, advocate, teacher, lecturer, and nationally and internationally recognized expert on the subject. Dr. Gartner's classic book, Betrayed as Boys: Psychodynamic Treatment of Sexually Abused Men, is one of the few written to guide clinicians. Now, nearly two decades after writing that groundbreaking volume, he follows up on his earlier work. Healing Sexually Abused Men and Boys, together with its companion volume, Understanding the Sexual Betrayal of Boys and Men, is a thorough, comprehensive guide to learning about and healing male victims and survivors.
Dr. Gartner has invited a group of experts to write about specific problems faced by these boys and men. Specialists from the psychoanalytic, psychodynamic, trauma, and legal worlds fill in the details about a wide range of interconnected subjects related to the complex reverberations of male sexual trauma. Healing Sexually Betrayed Men and Boys covers such diverse topics as:
therapy with young sexually traumatized boys
the aftermath for men who were raped as adults
covert seduction of boys and its aftereffects
treatment for substance addictions and sexual compulsions
couples work with male survivors and their partners or spouses
bodywork with male survivors
treatment for male veterans who suffered sexual trauma in the military
profiling sexual predators and working with survivors who have also been sexual predators
This book is a valuable resource for clinicians at every level of training. With strategies for how survivors can build support networks and descriptions of clinical, familial, and community-based treatments, Healing Sexually Betrayed Men and Boys is essential reading for clinicians of all theoretical persuasions who work with male sexual abuse survivors. Filling in gaps in the relatively scant literature on the subject, it will also help sexually abused or assaulted men themselves understand what is available to them.

Richard B. Gartner is Training and Supervising Analyst, Faculty, and Founding Director of the Sexual Abuse Service at the William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Institute; author of Betrayed as Boys: Psychodynamic Treatment of Sexually Abused Men (1999) and Beyond Betrayal: Taking Charge of Your Life after Boyhood Sexual Abuse (2005); and editor of Trauma and Countertrauma, Resilience and Counterresilience: Insights from Psychoanalysts and Trauma Experts (2017) and Memories of Sexual Betrayal: Truth, Fantasy, Repression, and Dissociation (1997) as well as the companion volume to this one, Understanding the Sexual Betrayal of Boys and Men: The Trauma of Sexual Abuse. Co-Founder and Past President of MaleSurvivor.org, he is a pioneer in treating sexually abused men and was most recently awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Psychological Association's Division of Trauma Psychology (2021).

INTRODUCTION; Part I TREATING MEN AND BOYS; 1 Treating men sexually betrayed as boys; 2 Psychotherapy with sexually abused boys; Chapter 3 Adult male survivors of sexual assault; Chapter 4 Male Veterans' recovery from sexual assault and harassment during military service; Part II FOCUSED TREATMENTS; 5 Empowering male survivors to heal through community and peer connections; 6 A requiem for a men's trauma organization: The Men's Project 1998-2015 R.I.P.; 7 Anesthetizing open wounds: substance addiction in male survivors of sexual victimization 8 Early-life sexual trauma and adult-life hypersexual behavior (sex addiction) in males: making the connection 9 Body awareness and self-protection training for male sexual abuse survivor; Part III WOMEN IN THE PICTURE; 10 The heart of the matter: a female therapist works with a male survivor; 11 Covert seduction and its effects on boys and men; 12 Working with male survivor couples; Part IV PERPETRATORS AND PERPETRATOR/SURVIVORS; 13 Profiling real-life child sex offenders; 14 The challenge of viewing sexual offenders as both perpetrators and victims; 15 Dual histories of abuse and perpetration