Childhood sexual abuse in the history of patients in high-frequent psychoanalytic long-term therapy: Prevalence and diagnoses

276 treatment records of patients who were undergoing high-frequent, outpat ient, individual, psychoanalytic therapy were analysed with respect to the prevalence and patterns of childhood sexual abuse in the history of these p atients. 22.8% of all patients experienced narrowly defined sexual abuse du ring childhood (the end of the 17th year); additionally, 35.2% of all patie nts reported minor forms of sexually abusive experiences. The gender distri bution, the age at onset of sexual abuse, and the relationship to the perpe trator were analysed. Looking at psychoanalytic diagnoses, a significant co rrelation between a history of childhood sexual abuse and a diagnosis of hy sterical neurosis was found.