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  • Title: [Psychotherapy in child incest: the dangers of a psychic break].
    Author: Van Gijseghem H, Gauthier L.
    Journal: Sante Ment Que; 1992; 17(1):19-30. PubMed ID: 1515522.
    Abstract:
    There seems to be a consensus today by which a child, who is a victim of incest or sexually abused, must be directed to therapy in order that he or she provides a factual account of the traumatism and, by the same token, exorcises it. The authors deplore the widespread use of this destabilizing method. They emphasize that, for many children, recovery is achieved more successfully through "repression" (in the psychoanalytical sense of the term). After having obtained disclosure from the child, the authors argue that it is preferable for the intervenor to create the appropriate therapeutic conditions allowing the child to positively bury the event and move on with his or her life.
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