The Sexual Abuse of Women by Members of the Clergy

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McFarland, 27 Ιουλ 2010 - 308 σελίδες

The sexual abuse and exploitation of women by members of the clergy is not a new issue. What is new is the public's growing understanding of what is involved when members of the clergy ignore or repeatedly fall short of legal and ethical requirements to adhere to the expected standards of conduct.

This work is based on the author's study of 25 women from 11 states who were sexually abused by members of the clergy. A primary goal of the study was to help the violated women understand their experiences and make available to educators, practitioners and others concrete information about what it means to be sexually exploited by a trusted religious representative. The author also considers the viability of a trauma model to study the impact of such sexual abuse on women and on their relationships with others, and presents her findings that the participants did exhibit symptoms that strongly correspond with the classical and complex trauma criteria used.

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III
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IV
28
V
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VI
61
Trauma Response Helplessness and Disconnection
70
VII
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VIII
107
IX
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X
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XI
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XII
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Appendix B
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XIII
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XV
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Σελίδα 22 - He must recognize that the patient's falling in love is induced by the analytic situation and is not to be ascribed to the charms of his person, that he has no reason whatever therefore to be proud of such a ' conquest ', as it would be called outside analysis.
Σελίδα 22 - Further, the necessary intensity of the therapeutic relationship may tend to activate sexual and other needs and fantasies on the part of both patient and therapist, while weakening the objectivity necessary for control. Sexual activity with a patient is unethical.
Σελίδα 273 - It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He appeals to the universal desire to see, hear, and speak no evil. The victim, on the contrary, asks the bystander to share the burden of pain.
Σελίδα 254 - ... personality change from catastrophic experience." These names may be awkward and unwieldy, but practically any name that gives recognition to the syndrome is better than no name at all. Naming the syndrome of complex post-traumatic stress disorder represents an essential step toward granting those who have endured prolonged exploitation a measure of the recognition they deserve.
Σελίδα 20 - It is a dramatic term for circumstances that eventuate in crime — the deliberate attempt to eradicate or compromise the separate identity of another person. The victims of soul murder remain in large part possessed by another, their souls in bondage to someone else.
Σελίδα 22 - The social worker should avoid relationships or commitments that conflict with the interests of clients. 5. The social worker should under no circumstances engage in sexual activities with clients. 6. The social worker should provide clients with accurate and complete information regarding the extent and nature of the services available to them. 7. The social worker should apprise clients of their risks, rights, opportunities, and obligations associated with social service to them.
Σελίδα 103 - not telling' of the story serves as a perpetuation of its tyranny. The events become more and more distorted in their silent retention and pervasively invade and contaminate the survivor's daily life...
Σελίδα 34 - Repetition, in other words, is not simply the attempt to grasp that one has almost died but, more fundamentally and enigmatically, the very attempt to claim one's own survival. If history is to be understood as the history of a trauma, it is a history that is experienced as the endless attempt to assume one's survival as one's own.
Σελίδα 37 - ... liquidated" as long as they have not been translated into a personal narrative.
Σελίδα 28 - However, even though psychodynamic psychiatry is invaluable in helping us to understand the characterological adaptations to the memories of the trauma, the core issue in PTSD is that the primary symptoms are not symbolic, defensive, or driven by secondary gain. The core issue is the inability to integrate the reality of particular experiences, and the resulting repetitive replaying of the trauma in images, behaviors, feelings, physiological states, and interpersonal relationships. (van der Kolk...

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