The Freud Museum London is pleased to host this evening event to mark the publication of ‘Talking about non-recent child sexual abuse: survivor, clinician and researcher perspectives’.
Judith Herman emphasizes that without an organized political movement, society’s natural response to atrocities is denial, silence and disavowal. The origins of this book are linked to the discoveries of the atrocities inflicted by Jimmy Savile which came to public attention in 2011. Police operations, Media reviews and NHS inquiries followed and subsequently the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual abuse was the definitive state response, set up in 2014. Many of the book contributors had been working in this area within various fields for a long time but these events prompted Danny Taggart and Jo Stubley to create a small group, subsequently named the Network for Change: NRCSA.