Deliver Us From Evil cuts together footage from videotaped depositions by priests, cardinals and other church staff, parents, written testimonies and histories and grown-up victims of both genders describing the abuse suffered as children and the lengths to which the Catholic Church went in order to keep it covered up. It concentrates on one particular…
Louis Theroux’s Documentary A Place For Paedophiles is a film made at Coalinga, a “halfway house†jail for Californian paedophiles who have served their primary sentences but who have been deemed unsafe for release back into society. Theroux wrote a companion article about the documentary on the BBC News website and you can read it…
Emotional Processing is a short book by Dr Roger Baker in which he uses the experiences of some of his therapeutic patients from his 20 years in the practice and supplementary research to explain his view of how people process their emotions generally and in response to key life events, in both healthy and destructive…
Yesterday, the Youtube upload of the awards ceremony was pulled. As such, check the official BAFTA Site and click through the video clip archive to watch the official post interview footage. Underneath the large video player box on the right hand side of the site (whether on the index page linked above or the next…
British Documentary Chosen, one of the earliest reviews from the Survivors News and Reviews section, won an award for Best Single Documentary at the BAFTA British Academy Television Awards on Sunday 26th April. Our congratulations to the production team, director Brian Woods and Alistair Mark and Tom who took part. Hopefully the award will result…
What did I get when I read A Brother’s Journey by Richard Pelzer today? A shot of confidence and a flash of inspiration from a male physical abuse survivor. A wish to write my own story tempered with the need for a new day job, but renewed optimism and self-esteem in making that application and…
