Body-speak: Poetic intervention for adult survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSA) – An autoethnographic approach

Gildea, Iris J.

doi:10.1016/j.aip.2021.101796

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“…The study’s overall findings stress the complexity, confusion and messiness built into the participants’ narratives around what they emphasised as embodied disclosure. The findings furthermore highlight the body as a central part of knowing, following other researchers in this field (Gildea, 2021; Van der Kolk, 1994). The narratives in this study are linked inexorably with the participants’ past experiences and current context, as well as the interpersonal, emotional, cognitive and embodied processes in participants’ meaning making around their child sexual abuse histories.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 78%

“…Findings can thus be viewed as a contribution to the research field and to practical social work through a narrative, in-depth, embodied awareness of child sexual abuse. The physical body is seen as a valid site of knowledge production with regards to recovery from and prevention of child sexual abuse in previous research (Gildea, 2021). This article shifts the focus of disclosure as a verbal act to an in-depth exploration of the participants’ meaning making and narratives of embodied disclosure, as acted events that were brought forward in the interviews, in their recollections.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The body as a site of knowledge: Tacit and embodied narratives of child sexual abuse

Herland

2022

Qualitative Social Work

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Research on child sexual abuse has underacknowledged the multifaced, tacit and embodied dimensions, leaving the literature without a full picture of events that are often unspeakable, especially with regards to disclosure. This study thus placed emphasis on and highlighted the importance of increased awareness around lived lives and bodily narratives of child sexual abuse. The qualitative study consisted of 14 in-depth, retrospective interviews with Norwegian participants over the age of 18 who experienced child sexual abuse. The analysis shed light on the participants’ silenced and embodied experiences as children, captured by two overall narratives: a) the body speaks the truth and b) living with embodied messiness, complexity and confusion. The narratives that unfolded in participants’ recollections of their childhood embodied stories contain reflections on how the experiences are re-played within their bodies as adults. Study findings focus on participants’ embodied narratives of child sexual abuse – experiences that are often not captured by verbal language. The narratives brought forward in the interviews are linked with participants’ past experiences and current context, as well as interpersonal, emotional, cognitive and embodied processes, as part of the participants’ meaning making around their child sexual abusive histories. Study findings help explain embodied, tacit and complex dimensions concerning lived experiences of child sexual abuse. As such, this research speaks to the field of social work that encounters children and families facing this phenomenon.

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The body as a site of knowledge: Tacit and embodied narratives of child sexual abuse

Herland

2022

Qualitative Social Work

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“…Despite chaos, Frank (2013) and a growing number of scholars focusing on injury and abuse narratives (Anderson and Hiersteiner, 2008;Foster and Hagedorn, 2014;Gildea, 2021;Harvey, 2000), also in sport (Barker-Ruchti et al, 2019;Kuhlin et al, 2020;Smith and Sparkes, 2005), recognise that sufferers can process devastating consequences. Commonly, triggers initiate this processing, which Frank (2013: 117) proposes to be followed by a 'searching for alternative ways of being ill [abused]'.…”

Section: Conceptualising Csa Survivorshipmentioning

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Surviving child sexual abuse in women's artistic gymnastics: ‘It's beautiful, because had I stayed in the past, I wouldn’t have evolved as a person’

Barker-Ruchti,

Varea

2023

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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The USA Gymnastics sex abuse scandal raised global awareness about child sexual abuse (CSA) in women's artistic gymnastics. The ensuing media coverage also centre-staged victims’ survivorship stories, a process that for many moved from dissociating, recognising and disclosing CSA to feeling comfort when connecting with survivors and accepting CSA as part of their life history. However, scholarship on what survivorship from CSA in sport entails, and importantly, what it means to athletes, is limited. In this article, we frame the survival of CSA using Arthur Frank’s socio-narratological conceptualisation of people being able to process the devastating consequences of a life-threatening and/or a life-altering event, and present the survivorship stories of two former gymnasts, Maria and Lucia (pseudonyms). For these two women, survivorship was facilitated by hearing others’ stories of sexual abuse, purposefully facing their CSA experiences and connecting with one another later in life to raise awareness about sexual abuse in sport. Thus, in addition to presenting Maria and Lucia's stories for the purpose of providing CSA victims with a survivorship narrative, we outline and reflect on the role hearing and telling stories have in CSA survivorship.

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Body-speak: Poetic intervention for adult survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSA) – An autoethnographic approach

Cited by 6 publications

References 21 publications

The body as a site of knowledge: Tacit and embodied narratives of child sexual abuse

The body as a site of knowledge: Tacit and embodied narratives of child sexual abuse

Surviving child sexual abuse in women's artistic gymnastics: ‘It's beautiful, because had I stayed in the past, I wouldn’t have evolved as a person’

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