Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Clinical Problems of Incest (IN: Sexual Abuse: Incest Victims and Their Families, ed. by J Goodwin)

This chapter describes 6 clinical problems in the treatment of incest victims & their families including hysterical seizures after an incest event, suicide attempts in victims & family members, runaway incest victims, how incest operates as a defense against loss, maternal failure in women who have been incest victims, & how to talk with children about incest in a nonthreatening way. The discussion focuses on cross-cultural & folkloric data critical to understanding these clinical problems. LH