Double Vision: A Travelogue of Recovery from Ritual Abuse

by Anna Richardson

Double Vision is the story of a woman remembering the torture she suffered during childhood at the hands of an organized, secretive network of adults, and about her struggle not to become one of the abusers; it is about organized cruelty and the necessity of naming evil. And it is also about loving another woman, building a house and a garden, and the moments of connection which enabled her to endure.
Interweaving current observations with excerpts from journals she kept during the three years when the forgotten incidents of ritual abuse were surfacing, the author explores the nature of remembering, the thawing of experiences the psyche had kept in deep freeze, and the processes by which experience is transformed into memory.
An argumentative agnostic who unexpectedly finds in a Congregational minister a man who will walk by her side through the valley of the shadow, the author struggles and succeeds in growing a self large enough to hold all that she knows - of the world, of herself - without denial or despair.

331 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1997

Reviews

[Deanna Kice · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was very disappointing when compared to other books on this subject.