For AC above, have you read the book 'Mans search for meaning' by Victor Frankl?

He is a holocaust survivor and a psychologist - he went on to write of his experiences and how even after everything had been taken physically from him and food and water deprived as well as dignity etc, he realised that he still had choices about the way he thought and what he could mentally and spiritually hang on to to see him through the most atrocious of abuses.

Essential reading for any recovering victim imo.