An Unthinkable Crime: The Hidden History of Sexual Abuse and a New Age of Reckoning

A sweeping history of how child sexual abuse has been systematically concealed and minimized for decades—and how a courageous group of survivors, psychologists, and advocates are fighting to expose the truth

In 1896, Sigmund Freud presented a theory that he hoped would explain why so many of his female patients were suffering from “hysteria.” Many of them had experienced sexual abuse as children, largely at the hands of their fathers, and Freud had come to believe that this was at the root o...