Individual Psychotherapy With Victims of Incest

Individual Psychotherapy With Victims of Incest

The author outlines the clinical features commonly found in victims of incest, especially those that constitute the “incest profile/’ Recommendations are offered for the later phases of therapy, focusing first on symptoms (depression, sexual difficulties), then on personality disturbances (mistrust, impulsivity, hostility). The need for supportive and reeducative interventions is stressed as necessary to foster improvements in close relationships.

Psychiatry and Mental health