A Guilty Victim

by Toby Ingham

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    Biography; Psychotherapy

    Paperback

    9781800133068

    Published by Karnac Books

    Published March 2025

    The true story of one man’s recovery through psychotherapy from childhood trauma, grooming and sexual abuse at a Catholic boarding school.

    A Guilty Victim offers a unique insight into the process of psychotherapy in action, with nine moving illustrations created by the client to tell his life story.

    It is unusual to have permission to be able to illustrate the process of psychotherapy in action. William Smith bravely suggested his story be told to help at-risk children by showing adults how to recognise the warning signs in children’s behaviour. His long journey to recovery is also an inspiration to others struggling to come to terms with childhood trauma.

    The complex nature of grooming and abuse is often simplified by those who do not understand it and are left wondering why the victim allowed it to happen. A Guilty Victim challenges that misconception and explains how and why abuse continues and the impact it leaves on the victim’s life. It explains that we remain trapped in situations not because there is something wrong with us, but because of things that have happened to us.

    A Guilty Victim is a human story that will appeal to anyone with an interest in understanding trauma, psychotherapy, wellness and mental health. Counter to a market saturated by vignettes, fictionalised stories, and life hacks, it is especially relevant to people with responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable people.

    ‘Moving and absolutely gripping. Toby Ingham is an Oliver Sacks, an expert in the workings of the human mind with the writerly skill to turn painstaking clinical practice into compulsively readable narrative. This book is the story of the rescue, against all the odds, of a desperately damaged person; of a triumph of good over evil: it will be a resource and a balm for all who suffered neglect, abuse and other traumas as children in Britain’s residential care systems.’ – Alex Renton, journalist and author of Stiff Upper Lip: Secrets, Crimes and the Schooling of a Ruling Class

    ‘Toby Ingham has written an extraordinary book, part case study and part novel. The book shows how creativity is linked to courage, showing how if pain and trauma can be faced then our lives can be transformed.’ – Laurence Spurling, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, Senior Member of the British Psychotherapy Foundation

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