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Finding My Voice: Surviving Childhood Sexual Abuse, Diane Lafrance
Finding My Voice: Surviving Childhood Sexual Abuse, Diane Lafrance
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This autobiographical study reflects experiences of surviving child sexual abuse and my journey through curriculum studies as a route to finding power through my voices. Using currere as a lead theory to frame this work, this study reveals a first-person account of sexual abuse to detail my development to empowerment and how I learned to advocate for myself and other childhood victims. Within this work, the method of currere, psychoanalytic theory, focusing, hypnosis, and healing through writing are discussed as processes for increasing self-understanding.