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Resolving Childhood Trauma: A Long-Term Study of Abuse Survivors. Catherine M. Cameron. Sage. 2003. ISBN: 9780761921295.

Resolving Childhood Trauma is based on a 12-year longitudinal study of women survivors of child sexual abuse. It examines trauma, amnesia, memory recovery, healing, and later-life outcomes. The book follows a cohort of survivors over time, with five successive surveys and a final survey in 1998 to track recovery and the effects of childhood abuse. SAGE describes it as a compassionate, research-based account of trauma and recovery.

Main themes: The chapter structure highlights the arc from childhood trauma to delayed recall, flashbacks, reactions from others, confrontation of the abuser, and changed lives. The study also places the women's experiences in the wider trauma literature and discusses how amnesia can both disrupt and shape survivors' lives.

Catherine M. Cameron is professor emerita of anthropology at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research has focused on prehistoric demography, cultural transmission, warfare, captive-taking, and enslavement in small-scale societies, especially in the American Southwest.

She has published widely in anthropology, including monographs on Chaco-era archaeology and the book Captives: How Stolen People Changed the World (2016). Her work on Resolving Childhood Trauma reflects her broader interest in long-term human experience and social suffering.

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