Analysis of the Incest Trauma Retrieval, Recovery, Renewal

Childhood sexual abuse within the family of origin and society's institutions, such as the church, education, sports, and the world of celebrity, has been neglected as a significant issue by psychoanalysis and society. The incest trauma needs to be understood as one of the most significant problems of contemporary society. This book is an attempt to re-establish incest trauma as a significant psychological disorder by tracing the evolutionary trajectory of psychoanalysis from the Seduction Theory to the Oedipal Therapy to the Confusion of Tongues Theory. By examining the theoretical, emotional, interpersonal, and political issues involved in Freud's abandoning the Seduction Hypothesis and replacing it with the Oedipal Complex, we can see how system building became more important than the emotional welfare of children. In a series of chapters the authors demonstrate this neglect of the incest trauma.

Foreword , The intellectual and emotional journey toward understanding the incest trauma , Psychoanalysis’s neglect of the incest trauma , Confusion of tongues drama: the suppression of the first theory and method for the treatment of the incest trauma , Confusion of tongues theory of childhood sexual trauma , A pioneering analysis of the incest trauma: Sándor Ferenczi’s analysis of Elizabeth Severn , Listening to the voices of the abused , Incest trauma, psychoanalysis, and the brain , Analysis of an incest trauma in a difficult case , Analysis of the incest trauma through the drawings of an outsider artist , View from the couch: an analysand’s experience of trauma , Triumph of the human spirit: the emotional courage of a young woman who confronted her incest trauma , Countertransference encounters: the analyst’s experience of trauma analysis , Understanding an erotic transference as an enactment of a childhood incest trauma , Education, training, and supervision for analyzing the incest trauma

Susan A Klett