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“Some psychiatric clinicians appear to be so biologically or behaviorally oriented that they do not believe in the unconscious. Others have been so indoctrinated in the Freudian psychoanalytic model that they believe all accounts of incest are fantasy. A few of the older clinicians allow pride to get in their way and refuse to believe that they may have missed the diagnosis [of Dissociative Identity Disorder] in some of their patients.”

Dissociative Identity DisorderIncestMisdiagnosisMental Health ProfessionalsMental Health Bias
Author:Philip M. Coons
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“Implicit [in the psychiatric literature] is a set of normative assumptions regarding the father's prerogatives and the mother's obligations within the family, The father, like the children, is presumed to be entitled to the mother's love, nurturance, and care. In fact, his dependent needs actually supersede those of the children, for if a mother falls to provide the accustomed intentions, it is taken for granted that some other female must be found to take her place. The oldest daughter is a frequent choice... The father's wish, indeed his right, to continue to receive female nurturance, whatever the circumstances, is accepted without question.”

FatherPrejudiceInjusticeBiasPatriarchyFatherhoodPsychiatryBiasedIncestDysfunctional FamiliesFathers And DaughtersAbusive MenAbusive FatherPsychiatric CommunityFather S Rights
Book:Father-Daughter Incest
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“In his psychoanalytic practice, Freud was getting so many reports of incest from the daughters of respected, middle-class Viennese families that he groundlessly decided they couldn’t all be true. To explain their frequency, he concluded that the events occurred primarily in his patients’ imaginations. The legacy of Freud’s error is that thousands, perhaps millions, of incest victims have been, and in some cases continue to be, denied the validation and support they need, even when they are able to muster the courage to seek professional help.”

IncestFreudChild Sexual Abuse SurvivorSigmund FreudFreudianSeduction Theory
Book:Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life
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“Incestuous abuse is not necessarily related to the most severe, polyfragmented forms of MPD; however, ritual abuse, with or without incest, is the most common underlying cause of polyfragmentation for MPD [DID] or dissociative disorders NOS.”

Dissociative Identity DisorderIncestRitual AbuseDissociative DisorderPolyfragmentedPolyfragmented DidPolyfragmentation
Book:Incest-Related Syndromes of Adult Psychopathology
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“Loftus was asked to be an expert witness because the idea of memories as formed through a manipulable process of rehearsal is important to new views of memory and her own research. In the course of her testimony, the prosecutor skeptically asked: "You really don't know anything about five-year old children who have been sexually abused do you?" At that moment a "memory flew out at me, out of the blackness of the past, hitting me full force." She answers the prosecutor, "I do know something about this subject because I was abused when I was six years old" (149). With the force of a blow, a forgotten and apparently unrehearsed memory of being abused by a baby-sitter suddenly emerges after many years, its truth uneasily opposed to the falsehood of children's "rehearsed" memories or "contaminated" memories that she produces in her laboratory to show memories are but "mist" (4). Nonetheless, in her second popular book, The Myth of Repressed Memory, she argues against the existence of "repressed" memories...”

RepressionIncestRepressed MemoriesFalse MemoriesChild Abuse SurvivorTrauma MemoryRepressed MemoryFalse Memory MythElizabeth Loftus
Book:Telling Incest: Narratives of Dangerous Remembering from Stein to Sapphire
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