An investigation into practice

Adult incest victims and psychoanalytic psychotherapy

Bibliographic Data

ID10516759
AuthorsSusan Fortgang (Austen Riggs Center, corresponding author)
Year1992
Volume62
Issue3
Pages265-281
Publication date1992-06-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSmith College Studies in Social Work (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0037-7317 • E-ISSN: 1553-0426
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00377319209516713
OpenAlexW1985131159
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited18

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. Notes Susan Fortgang, M.S.W., is Administrative Clinical Coordinator of Social Work Services at the Austen Riggs Center and is in private practice in both Northampton and Stockbridge, Massachusetts

Context (archaeology · Daughter · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Psychotherapist · Social environment · Social science · Sociology · Child Abuse and Trauma · Child Welfare and Adoption · Law · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Work