Table of Contents

* Trauma and Childhood Sexual Abuse in Psychoanalysis * Long-Term Sequelae and Diagnosis of childhood Sexual Abuse * An Integrative Model of Childhood Sexual Abuse * Dissociation * Disclosure and the Recovery of Memories * Reality Testing and the Question of Validation * Exposure to Danger, the Erotization of Fear, and Compulsive Self-Abuse * The Impact of Trauma on Transference and Countertransference * Eight Transference-Countertransference Positions * Transference and Countertransference: A Case Example * Technical Considerations in Treatment * Concluding Thoughts: Theoretical Implications and Reconsiderations

About the Author

Jody Messler Davies, Ph.D., is a faculty member and clinical supervisor at the Derner Institute, Adelphi University, and at Columbia University's Teachers College. She is also a clinical supervisor at the centre for the Study of Abuse and Incest, Manhattan Institute of Psychoanalysis, and a faculty member at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies. Mary Gail Frawley, Ph.D., is adjunct clinical professor at the Derner Institute, Adelphi University, and at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology.