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To Understand the Victim of Sexual Abuse

Summary/Abstract: Sexual abuse trauma is one of the worst experiences that can happen to a person, especially to the young ones. The article presents how the trauma of sexual abuse changes the life of its victim and what problems the victim has to deal with. Theoretical considerations available in the literature on the subject have been confirmed by the empirical material resulting from the analysis of the therapy of 70 patients, including 10 with a history of childhood sexual abuse. The conducted research focused mainly on the defense mechanisms used by people who experienced sexual abuse. The research was based on records from treatment sessions. The method adopted was a diagnostic survey, and the technique was the analysis of documents on the basis of a question sheet created with the use of the existing literature on the subject. The analysis of the results shows that people who experienced the trauma of sexual abuse in childhood, tend to use various psychological mechanisms more frequently than other adults. Such mechanism include projective identification, projection, or dissociation, classified by researchers as primitive mechanisms.

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