Long-Term Effects of Incest: Life Events Triggering Mental Disorders in Female Patients with Sexual Abuse in Childhood.

Kinzl, Johannes; Biebl, Wilfried

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ERIC Number: EJ452958

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1992

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Long-Term Effects of Incest: Life Events Triggering Mental Disorders in Female Patients with Sexual Abuse in Childhood.

Kinzl, Johannes; Biebl, Wilfried

Child Abuse and Neglect: The International Journal, v16 n4 p567-73 Jul-Aug 1992

Psychosocial, psychosomatic, and psychodynamic factors were evaluated in 33 female psychiatric patients who had been victims of incest. Sexual abuse experiences in childhood were related to feelings of anxiety, helplessness, and powerlessness, which, with a lack of support from the mother, led to ego weakness, and an autoplastic model of coping with aggression. (Author/DB)

Descriptors: Aggression, Anxiety, Coping, Emotional Problems, Etiology, Females, Followup Studies, Incest, Individual Development, Mental Disorders, Personality Traits, Psychological Characteristics, Sexual Abuse, Victims of Crime

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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