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I commend Reclaiming Lives from Sexual Violence: Understanding Shame through Innovative Narrative Therapy for its originality, its generosity of spirit and its co-authorship. In addition, it takes up shame as a major concern, offering remedial strategies to render it ineffectual. But perhaps most significantly is that Tim, the counsellor and Dale, the survivor, who as they put it, ‘walked alongside’ one another do so once again in the most engaging and inspiring fashion in co-authoring this book.

David Epston, originator of Narrative Therapy with Michael White, BA, Dist.Dip.Comm.Dev., MA (Applied Social Studies), CQSW(UK), NZAC, D.Litt (honoris causa)

What a treasure of a book! For those wanting to know more about the practice of Narrative Therapy with survivors of child sexual abuse, how to walk collaboratively alongside those who have been subjected to sexual violence and to turn taken-for-granted understandings of shame into expressions of values held dear, Tim’s and co-author, Dale’s book, Reclaiming Lives from Sexual Violence: Understanding Shame through Innovative Narrative Therapy provides this and more. Its sensitivity, authenticity and clarity are to be commended.

Sue Davidson, B. Soc. Sc., M. Soc. Sc. (Counselling), Advanced Cert. in Narrative Therapy (Dulwich Centre, Adelaide)

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