Incest (Paperback: Illustrated: 200 pages)

Drawing on the work of American psychotherapist Judith Herman, she invites readers to focus on the neurological damage caused by traumatic experience, arguing that it is the overwhelming of one person by another that constitutes abuse, and it is this which causes the damage, not the fact of a close relationship.

She brings together, in accessible form, key descriptions of the effects of abuse from analysts Sandor Ferenczi, Estela Welldon and Valerie Sinason

She revisits the two real-life cases of Father Porter from Massachusetts and Sappho Durrell, daughter of the British writer Lawrence Durrell. She also draws on the work of artists and filmmakers to explain the way film and literature have helped to preserve our understanding of abuse and of its place in the world

Films and novels featured: "Murmur of the Heart," "Art for Teachers of Children," "Suddenly Last Summer," "Through a Glass Darkly," "Lolita," "The Bluest Eye," "The God of Small Things,"

Includes 16 film stills