Deli are you sure the reason pdoc gave you the book to read was because he wanted to change your mind about what happened? IDK what book you are talking about but by what you wrote here...it sounds like your pdoc is trying to help you understand how the perp was able to manipulate you. NOT to try to get you to believe that stuff wasn't as bad as you think it was or that things you think happened didn't really happen.
I know one thing I am continuing to struggle with in my own therapy is really understanding what life was really like for me at 5, 6, 7 yrs of age. The things that the perps used to so easily manipulate me into thinking that I wanted to be "bad", wanted to be abused, liked being abuse....etc are to my adult mind SO STUPID and unbelievable.I often judge the child hashly saying that she should have been smarter than that, blah, blah, blah. What is difficult for most people is to really understand what the whole complex environment was like at the time of the abuse.
IDK maybe your pdoc is trying to get you to see how the perp thought and could manipulate you and how...you are not alone. The perps techniques have been successfully used on so many victims that books have been written about them.
IDK another thought comes to mind...not sure if it applies to your book or situation or not but... Maybe if you could understand the way your perps mind intrepreted and processed things, you might be able to see that it wasn't YOU personally that did something to cause the abuse or perpetuate the abuse. It was THEM and their pathology, you just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Sorry if these thoughts might be totally off base.
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