Constructions of therapist-client sex: a comparative analysis of retrospective victim reports.  

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Somer, Eli ; Nachmani, Irit

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Sexual Abuse vol. 17 no. 1 (Jan. 2005), page 47.
Topik: Therapist-Patient Relationship; Sexual Exploitation; Therapist Abuse
Fulltext: 47.pdf (896.91KB)

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Former patients’ (n = 24) accounts of their experience during a sexual liaison with their psychotherapist (Therapist-Client Sex, TCS) could be classified as either romantic (TCS-Romance) or as an abusive encounter (TCS-Abuse). During TCS, individuals in the TCS-Romance group reported having experienced overall better emotional states and more favorable perceptions of both the perpetrating therapists and the treatments they provided. Pre-TCS assessments showed that initially TCS-Romance subjects may have had a relatively higher regad for their perpetrators and the quality of their treatments than TCS-Abuse subjects, but these between-group differences disappeared when the same variables were assessed for two post-TCS periods. These periods were marked in both groups by deteriorated indices of psychological well-being. These findings suggest that a romantic nar- rative of TCS could have a shielding, albeit temporary, impact on the subjective experience of what is otherwise considered an abusive relationship.

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