Thalassa, "Confusion of the tongues", "The unwelcome child and his death-instinct": Sándor Ferenczi's unfolding model of trauma

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Adrienne E. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
War Trauma ◽  
Death Instinct ◽  
Psychic Structure ◽  
Unfolding Model ◽  
War Neurosis ◽  
Psychoanalytic Study

In this article, I trace the evolution and unfolding meanings and use of Ferenczi's model of trauma as it appears in his work on sexual abuse, on war trauma, and on early neglect. Some are works of quite long gestation and some written and published in the context of immediate circumstances, for instance, his paper on war neurosis. Ferenczi's work is seen as an influence on the psychoanalytic study of somatic states, on early gaps in psychic structure and in early and adult trauma.

Post-traumatic Stress

2018 ◽  
pp. 299-304
Author(s):  
S. Nassir Ghaemi
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Childhood Sexual Abuse ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
War Trauma ◽  
Central Feature ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Shell Shock ◽  
War Neurosis ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
Radical Revision

The concept of trauma has been a central feature of psychiatry and psychology ever since a century ago, when a Viennese neurologist concluded that many of his young female patients with hysteria had experienced childhood sexual abuse. The concept of trauma soon was extended to adults, mainly soldiers. “Hysteria,” “shell shock,” “war neurosis”—it all became mutated in DSM-III’s radical revision of 1980 into “post-traumatic stress disorder” (PTSD). In this chapter, the diagnosis and treatment of post-traumatic stress are explored. DSM-based diagnoses are viewed as broad, and overly oriented toward comorbidity. Instead, PTSD-like symptoms occur as part of the typical stressors that trigger mood or psychotic states. True PTSD can occur with severe trauma, as in childhood sexual abuse or war trauma. Symptomatic treatment is seen to be questionable in benefit over risk, both for antipsychotics and for SRIs.

Trauma-Induced Dissociative Amnesia in World War I Combat Soldiers

1999 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Onno van der Hart ◽  
Paul Brown ◽  
Mariëtte Graafland
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Childhood Sexual Abuse ◽  
World War I ◽  
Traumatic Events ◽  
War Trauma ◽  
Combat Trauma ◽  
World War ◽  
Dissociative Amnesia ◽  
Traumatic Amnesia ◽  
Post Traumatic

Objective: This study relates trauma-induced dissociative amnesia reported in World War I (WW I) studies of war trauma to contemporary findings of dissociative amnesia in victims of childhood sexual abuse. Method: Key diagnostic studies of post-traumatic amnesia in WW I combatants are surveyed. These cover phenomenology and the psychological dynamics of dissociation vis-à-vis repression. Results: Descriptive evidence is cited for war trauma-induced dissociative amnesia. Conclusion: Posttraumatic amnesia extends beyond the experience of sexual and combat trauma and is a protean symptom, which reflects responses to the gamut of traumatic events.

Review: The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, Volume 2

2016 ◽  
pp. 157-158
Author(s):  
Donald W. Winnicott
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Study ◽  
Male Child ◽  
Human Infant ◽  
Psychic Structure ◽  
Depressive Position ◽  
Psychoanalytic Study

In this review Winnicott discusses articles on the theoretical study of psychic structure, a study of laughter, a further contribution from Mrs Burlingham on twins, and a study of the pre-oedipal development of the male child. According to Winnicott, Spitz’s contribution is notable for showing how Klein uses the term ‘depressive position’ to describe a stage of achievement for the human infant.

Malpractice & Negligence: State Supreme Courts Limit Therapists’ Duties to Third Parties

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-205
Author(s):  
Megan Cleary
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
New Hampshire ◽  
Third Parties ◽  
State Supreme Courts ◽  
Recovered Memories ◽  
Supreme Courts ◽  
Repressed Memory ◽  
University Of Colorado

In recent years, the law in the area of recovered memories in child sexual abuse cases has developed rapidly. See J.K. Murray, “Repression, Memory & Suggestibility: A Call for Limitations on the Admissibility of Repressed Memory Testimony in Abuse Trials,” University of Colorado Law Review, 66 (1995): 477-522, at 479. Three cases have defined the scope of liability to third parties. The cases, decided within six months of each other, all involved lawsuits by third parties against therapists, based on treatment in which the patients recovered memories of sexual abuse. The New Hampshire Supreme Court, in Hungerford v. Jones, 722 A.2d 478 (N.H. 1998), allowed such a claim to survive, while the supreme courts in Iowa, in J.A.H. v. Wadle & Associates, 589 N.W.2d 256 (Iowa 1999), and California, in Eear v. Sills, 82 Cal. Rptr. 281 (1991), rejected lawsuits brought by nonpatients for professional liability.

Survey Says Encopresis in Boys Can Be a Sign of Sexual Abuse

2007 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
TIMOTHY F. KIRN
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse

Effectiveness of Programs for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amaia Del Campo ◽  
Marisalva Fávero
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Prevention Programs ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sexual Abuse Prevention ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Methodological Considerations

Abstract. During the last decades, several studies have been conducted on the effectiveness of sexual abuse prevention programs implemented in different countries. In this article, we present a review of 70 studies (1981–2017) evaluating prevention programs, conducted mostly in the United States and Canada, although with a considerable presence also in other countries, such as New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The results of these studies, in general, are very promising and encourage us to continue this type of intervention, almost unanimously confirming its effectiveness. Prevention programs encourage children and adolescents to report the abuse experienced and they may help to reduce the trauma of sexual abuse if there are victims among the participants. We also found that some evaluations have not considered the possible negative effects of this type of programs in the event that they are applied inappropriately. Finally, we present some methodological considerations as critical analysis to this type of evaluations.

Finkelhor's Precondition Model of child sexual abuse: A critique.

2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 291-307
Author(s):  
Tony Ward ◽  
Stephen M. Hudson
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse
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