I also recently picked up this book and read through it in the last day or so.

I found parts of it hard to read, mainly because of my frustration with the author pushing so much blame on sexual abuse and less on physical and absolutely nothing was mentioned about verbal abuse, though there is a chance that it was implied to be included in with physical abuse.

I found the story at the end of each chapter to be something that I could relate to, and the healing chapters near the end brought tears to my eyes that I had to painfully scrub aside before people could see the emotions boiling within.

I can understand the idea of focusing the book more on women, as it seems that they are seemingly diagnosed with the disorder more often than men, but it seemed that there was so little that was directly written to men that I felt I didn't take away as much as I feisably could have if I were a woman. They suggest changing the sex connotation from "she" to "he," but in the later chapters there are such blaitant positions of "this is the female and this is the male" that it made me unable to relate myself in the position, as I don't think any men that I know would be the "stay at home dad" that was shown by so many of the examples.

All in all I felt that I could idealize with the pains that they were feeling in the book, but was unfortunately turned off to it in a way because of the gearing of the book toward women.