A clinical primer on the kinds of harm that don't appear in photographs. Written for women who keep wondering if what happened to them "counts" — and who are beginning to understand that the body is keeping a far more accurate record than the story they were told.
Inside: the clinical taxonomy of non-physical abuse, a precise framework for distinguishing harm from disagreement, and the specific somatic and psychological effects of harm that left no visible marks but plenty of less visible ones.
For the woman who is finally ready to stop minimizing what happened to her.
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