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Sexual violence, disidentification, and long-term trauma recovery: a process-oriented case study analysis. |
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Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma, 20(5-8), 2011, pp.556-578. |
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1092-6771 |
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1545-083X |
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This case study describes psychodynamic therapy with a 30-year-old while female patient who presented with feelings of sadness, anxiety, and posttraumatic symptoms related to a rape she experienced at age 17. The article is intended as a training piece for clinicians and as an illustrative example of how individuals are not always consistent with existing research. Although this case is unusual in its lack of immediate acute posttraumatic stress disorder symptomatology, it offers insight into the importance of processing trauma that occurred in the distant past. The case maps onto, and diverges from, existing research on rape recovery, and helps to illuminate some of the acute challenges of working with a relatively atypical patient who engaged in feelings of ‘loving hate’ towards her rapist. Using detailed transcripts from the 50-week treatment, this study illustrates clinical strategies for helping a rape survivor move from intellectualising and distancing to emotional connection, acceptance, and recovery. Particular attention is paid to the patient’s identification with her perpetrator and the clinical implications for the therapist–patient relationship in cases of long-term trauma recovery. |
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case studies; post traumatic stress disorder; psychotherapy; rape; survivors; |
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www.scie-socialcareonline.org.uk/profile.asp?guid=9eb8e3d0-66b5-45d8-8442-b6aa4c31921a |
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