AN INVESTIGATION INTO PRACTICE - ADULT INCEST VICTIMS AND PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY

This paper reports the results of interviews with eight clinicians about their work, in each case, with one adult victim of father/daughter incest. These interviews were examined in the context of both historic and modern psychoanalytic views of incest and implications for treatment grounded in psychoanalytic theory. The modern clinical approach exercised by these clinicians reflects modifications of older analytic attitudes about incest and integrates new knowledge gathered from alternative theoretical sources.