Studien har undersökt vad behandlare upplever är specifikt i behandlingsprocessen, i alliansskapandet samt hur behandlarna påverkats affektivt av mötet med barn och ungdomar i åldrarna 4 till 18 år som blivit utsatta för incest. Fem legitimerade psykologer med erfarenheter från barn och ungdomspsykiatrisk verksamhet intervjuades. Tematisk analys användes vid bearbetning av data. Behandlarna poängterade i resultatet brister i struktur och skyddsaspekt i behandlingsprocessen samt behov av gränser i alliansskapandet. De affekter som oftast framträdde hos behandlarna var negativa affekter som ledsnad och förakt. Resultatet visade även på att behandlarna efterfrågade riktlinjer och vårdprogram specifikt inriktade mot barn och ungdomar som utsatts för incest. Forskning är nödvändig med fokus på evidensbaserade behandlingsmetoder som kan skapa riktlinjer för behandlare inom området. Vidare behövs det forskning med fokus på hur behandlarna påverkas av affekter som uppkommer i terapi med barn och ungdomar som blivit utsatta. / This study has investigated what therapists experience is specific in the treatment process, in the alliance creation and how therapists were affected by affects in meeting with children and adolescents aged 4 to 18 years who were exposed for incest. Five licensed psychologists with experience from child and adolescent psychiatry were interviewed. Thematic analysis was used in data processing. The result showed that therapists underlined a lack of structure and protection in treatment process as well as need for limits in the alliance creation with children exposed for incest. Effects that often emerged from the therapists were negative effects that led to sadness and contempt. The results also showed that the therapists requested guidelines and care programs specifically aimed for children and adolescent who are exposed for incest. Research is needed to produce evidence-based treatment methods that can create guidelines for therapists in the field.More research is needed focusing on how therapists are affected by affects that occur in treatment with child and adolescent who are exposed for incest.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of Engilsh Language and Literature, June 2001. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

The current study assessed the effects of incest utilizing the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), an objective measure that can address such long term effects as low self esteem, isolation, depression, anxiety, suicidality, substance abuse, impaired sexual adjustment, psychosomatic concerns, and interpersonal relationship difficulties. Eighty-one women seeking counseling for issues related to an incestuous childhood, and 90 non sexually abused adult female clients completed the MMPI and a background information questionnaire.A Multivariate Analysis of Variance test comparing the mean profiles demonstrated that the incest group was more somatic, depressed, angry, anxious, and confused. A chi square analysis of two-point code type configurations found the incest group being more classified by the 48/84 and the 24/42 code types whereas the control group was more represented by the 46/64 code type. Lastly, the groups were compared by completing cluster analyses on each group's profiles. Both groups yielded an "overwhelmed" cluster that was statistically the same. Secondly, they each yielded a "normal" cluster that was similar but statistically different. Finally, the incest group yielded an "angry and confused" cluster and the control group yielded a "somatizer" cluster. Descriptions of the clusters and reasons for their differences are proposed.Differential impact was examined by comparing the incest clusters on number of abusers, use of threat or force, identity of the abuser, perceived betrayal by a non offending parent, length of time since abuse, and length of time in counseling. The only significant finding in these analyses was that the "overwhelmed" cluster had a greater number of abusers than the "angry and confused" and the "normal" clusters.The first two analyses were included in the study to validate the similarity of the present data with previous research and to demonstrate the myopic vision that results from analyzing the data in these manners. The cluster analysis allowed for the examination of the differential impact of the numerous long term sequalae. Recommendations for further research are presented as well as implications for treatment. / Department of Counseling Psychology and Guidance Services

Thesis (D. Min.)--Ashland Theological Seminary, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 195-206).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2000. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 147-161).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1996. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [85]-94).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Ashland Theological Seminary, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 195-206).

The goal of this dissertation was to evaluate proximate mechanisms that facilitate incest avoidance, and elucidate under what circumstances these mechanisms may fail, integrating insights from the fields of forensic and evolutionary psychology. To set the stage, Study 1 was a meta-analysis that examined differences between biological and sociolegal incest offenders on two major risk dimensions (antisociality and atypical interests). While sociolegal incest offenders were more problematic on some indicators of antisociality, these groups did not differ in atypical sexual interests. These findings suggest that current models of child sexual abuse may not be sufficient to fully explain incest offending. Studies 2 and 3 examined the viability of the Westermarck hypothesis (1891/1921) - that early physical proximity leads to incest avoidance - and the mediating role of disgust in father-daughter (Study 2) and brother-sister (Study 3) relationships. The primary hypothesis for these studies was that disgust toward incest would mediate the relationship between physical proximity and incest propensity or behaviour. The results of Study 2 did not support the Westermarck hypothesis among fathers. While physical proximity may not activate incest avoidance in fathers, disgust toward incest may still be a proximate mechanism. The results of Study 3 were consistent with the Westermarck hypothesis and the mediating role of disgust as an incest avoidance mechanism among siblings, and also suggest that moderators, such as sexual behaviour that could result in offspring, could influence the strength of this mechanism. These findings suggest that mechanisms responsible for incest avoidance may be different for fathers and siblings.

The Master thesis entitled as "The Personal View of a Child on Sexual abuse and Its Social Impact" is a research work dealing with the analysis of the monograph "The Spider Games" by Zuzana S. The main aim of the work is to find out what social impact sexual abuse had on the author's life. The research was conducted as a qualitative investigation based on an anchored theory using a monograph analysis as a data acquisition technique. The Student has used the individual case studying method. The results showed that a sexual abuse had an impact on the author's life in all aspects. The sexual abuse has influenced the most the partner's relationships, the relationships in her family, the author's health, author's self-concept, and her sexuality. The work could be beneficial for the general public interested in this problematic, because it provides theoretical basics and refers to the direct resources. Furthermore, we can see the beneficial possibility of this work, to carry out a more extensive research to investigate the theoretical claims. The thesis can be useful for workers in helping professions, as to understand the victims of sexual abuse.

A modern interpretation of Wuthering Heights suggests that an unconscious incest taboo impeded Catherine and her foster brother, Heathcliff, from achieving normal sexual union and led them to seek union after death. Insights from anthropology, psychology, and sociology provide a key to many of the subtleties of the novel by broadening our perspectives on the causes of incest, its manifestations, and its consequences. Anthropology links the incest taboo to primitive systems of totemism and rules of exogamy, under which the two lovers' marriage would have been disallowed because they are members of the same clan. Psychological studies provide insight into Heathcliff and Catherine's abnormal relationship—emotionally passionate but sexually dispassionate—and their even more bizarre behavior—sadistic, necrophilic, and vampiristic—all of which can be linked to incest. The psychological manifestations merge with the moral consequences in Bronte's inverted image of paradise; as in Milton's Paradise, incest is both a metaphor for evil and a symbol of pre-Lapsarian innocence. The psychological and moral consequences of incest in the first generation carry over into the second generation, resulting in a complex doubling of characters, names, situations, narration, and time sequences that is characteristic of the self-enclosed, circular nature of incest. An examination of Emily Bronte's family background demonstrates that she was sociologically and psychologically predisposed to write a story with an underlying incest motif.