One of the most compelling and engaging books I have read on this subject, which I recommend both to therapists who work with former victims, as well as to clients, is Healing Sex: A Mind-Body Approach to Healing Sexual Trauma by Staci Haines (Felice Newman, Editor; Chicago: Cleis Press, 1999, 2007).

On the premise that the impact of abuse is located in pre-verbal areas of the brain, and that the pain and coping mechanisms are held within the body as a whole, the author advocates a somatic treatment orientation, which she explains as "a new interpretation of the self as well as the collective 'body'..."