Boys Who Have Abused: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy With Victim/Perpetrators of Sexual Abuse

From: Canadian Journal of Psychiatry | Date: November 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Sexual Abuse Boys Who Have Abused: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy With Victim/Perpetrators of Sexual Abuse John Woods. London (GB): Jessica Kingsley Publishers; 2003. 240p. CDN$39.95.

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One approaches this book uneasily-a very sad task faces workers in the field of child abuse, and the task is all the sadder when the abused child becomes, in adolescence, an abuser himself. Nevertheless, as British psychoanalyst John Woods maintains in his first 2 chapters, psychoanalytic psychotherapy can help. This depends on the therapy being integrated within the larger social and ...

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