MENTAL HEALTH IN INCEST PERSONS

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Incest is sexual activity between close relatives, the general pattern that occurs is between father-child, mother-child, and between siblings; who may also be homosexually oriented The study of ince... st as an actual phenomenon and not as a fantasy is event relatively new. In 1975, an authoritative text stated that the incident was incest father-son in the United States is 1 in a million families. Important contribution by feminist writers and traumatologists quickly made the profession sensitive to the frequency and importance of incest and its relationship to psychopathology. By 1986, Russell5 wrote that some forms of father-daughter incestuous activity start at a minimum to brutal and aggressive, found in about 1 in 20 families that include children women and their biological fathers, and 1 in 7 families where girls live with stepfather. In the early 1990s, feminists, traumatologists, and contributors to the study emerging concerns about dissociative disorders are involved in the incessant study of incest and treatment of incest victims. [Show More]

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