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Treating the Adult Survivor of Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Psychoanalytic Perspective » (1st Edition)

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Authors: Jody Messler Davies, Mary Gail Frawley, Mary G. Frawley
ISBN-13: 9780465066339, ISBN-10: 046506633X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: March 1994
Edition: 1st Edition

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Author Biography: Jody Messler Davies

Jody Messler Davies, Ph.D., is a faculty member and clinical supervisor at the Derner Institute, Adelphi University, and at Columbia University’s Teachers College. She is also a clinical supervisor at the Center for the Study of Abuse and Incest, Manhattan Institute of Psychoanalysis, and a faculty member at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies. Mary Gail Frawley, Ph.D., is adjunct clinical professor at the Derner Institute, Adelphi University, and at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology.

Book Synopsis

The first model for treatment of adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse that takes advantage of a relational approach and that integrates psychoanalytic thinking with the latest findings from the literature on psychological trauma and sexual abuse.

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Presents a model for the treatment of adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse that takes advantage of a relational approach and that integrates psychoanalytic thinking with the latest findings from the literature on psychological trauma and sexual abuse. Case examples illustrate the authors' treatment model. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction1
1Trauma and Childhood Sexual Abuse in Psychoanalysis11
2Long-Term Sequelae and Diagnosis of Childhood Sexual Abuse26
3An Integrative Model of Childhood Sexual Abuse43
4Dissociation62
5Disclosure and the Recovery of Memories86
6Reality Testing and the Question of Validation103
7Exposure to Danger, the Erotization of Fear, and Compulsive Self-abuse129
8The Impact of Trauma on Transference and Countertransference149
9Eight Transference-Countertransference Positions167
10Transference and Countertransference: A Case Example186
11Technical Considerations in Treatment198
12Concluding Thoughts: Theoretical Implications and Reconsiderations216
References237
Index249

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