A PATIENT WHO WAS NOT SEXUALLY ABUSED

Authors
RAPHLING DL
Citation
Dl. Raphling, A PATIENT WHO WAS NOT SEXUALLY ABUSED, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 42(1), 1994, pp. 65-78
Citations number
19
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry
Journal title
Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association → ACNP
ISSN journal
00030651
Volume
42
Issue
1
Year of publication
1994
Pages
65 - 78
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-0651(1994)42:1<65:APWWNS>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
Analysts are encountering increasing numbers of patients who suspect o r believe that the ills for which they seek analytic treatment as adul ts are due to having been sexually abused as children. A patient whose claim of childhood sexual abuse was not substantiated on analysis is the subject of a clinical report. Psychodynamic factors responsible fo r the appeal of the idea of sexual abuse are explored.