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Article: Healing the Incest Wound: Adult Survivors in Therapy.
- Article from:
- Adolescence
- Article date:
- December 22, 1993
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Increasing numbers of women who were abused incestuously as children are now seeking therapy for problems related to their abuse. This book provides the special knowledge and clinical guidelines that therapists need to help these women. Unfortunately, as documented here not only by statistics but also by the survivors' own voices, incest is not a rare aberrant happening but a common childhood experience of a substantial minority of all children. Since incest is generally hidden and denied, the victims are left to cope with their reactions in an atmosphere which contradicts the reality of their experience. All incest is not the same. In the first section, Courtois provides a ...
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