Regardless of the kind of abuse we have experienced, the central damage to an abused person takes predicable forms. The core issues almost always include the creation of a distorted image of the self. One way of thinking about recovery is that it is the process of undistorting these distortions.
OTHER RESOURCES:
Seeing Ourselves More Clearly by Juanita Ryan
The Good Self: Some Theological Perspectives by Ray Anderson
Recovery from Distorted Images of Self (Bible studies by Dale and Juanita Ryan)