Containing the secret: Time-limited groups for women who were sexually abused as children

Einhorn, Sue

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“…Relatively little has been written about group analysis specifically in the treatment of women who have been sexually abused as children, with the notable exception of Hall and King (1997). Einhorn (2000) has written about the use of the sexual abuse as metaphor in groups, and Noack and Baraitser (2004) of a group of mothers who had experienced childhood sexual abuse. Hall and King's research (1997) is based on a number of slow open analytic homogeneous groups, patients in treatment over a six-month period.…”

Section: Outcome Research In Groupsmentioning

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Childhood Sexual Abuse: Trauma and Healing in Groups through the Symbolic Presence of the Mother and the Phallus

Doran

Punter

2009

Group Analysis

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This article examines the theory and research from psychotherapy, neuroscience and outcome studies that help to understand the impact of childhood sexual abuse and its treatment in groups. When treating trauma in groups, attention needs to be paid to containment, and as such there is an analysis of the relationship between containment and structure in group analytic groups. The concept of the cultural mother, related to the mature matrix is outlined. The journey in an analytic group from being stuck, and repeating traumatic relationships, to freedom in being ‘reborn’, is mediated through the significance of the maternal and phallic symbols as they are active and experienced within the group analytic group.

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Section: Outcome Research In Groupsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Childhood Sexual Abuse: Trauma and Healing in Groups through the Symbolic Presence of the Mother and the Phallus

Doran

Punter

2009

Group Analysis

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“…The dynamics of working with incest survivors (Hunt & Bledin 1992;Hall & Kind 1997;Einhorn 2000), with the typical victim-persecutor splits, dissociations and resulting ego fragmentation, where thinking is often not possible because primitive anxieties predominate, are amplified in the work with mothers due to intense cross-identifications with their children. Frantic to avoid the contamination of the most precious thing they have, the projections of their own extreme vulnerability and persecutory anxieties onto each other create an overwhelming atmosphere of mental suffering, guilt and despair in the groups.…”

Section: The Group Treatmentmentioning

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Groupwork With Mothers Who Have Been Sexually Abused in Childhood

Noack¹,

Baraitser

2004

Brit J Psychotherapy

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This paper presents some thoughts about working clinically with mothers who have been sexually abused in childhood. We review the research literature that indicates that survivor mothers face interpersonal difficulties relating to their children, and, in the light of this research, suggest that survivor mothers may benefit from a therapeutic service that is specifically designed to meet their needs. We draw on recent explorations of transgenerational processes in the transmission of trauma to present an understanding of the psychodynamics involved in the difficulties survivors have with mothering. This understanding informs the design and implementation of groups for survivor mothers at the Maya Centre, a psychodynamic counselling centre for women living in poverty in the London Borough of Islington. Clinical examples taken from three short-term therapeutic groups are presented and discussed.

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Containing the secret: Time-limited groups for women who were sexually abused as children

Cited by 2 publications

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Childhood Sexual Abuse: Trauma and Healing in Groups through the Symbolic Presence of the Mother and the Phallus

Childhood Sexual Abuse: Trauma and Healing in Groups through the Symbolic Presence of the Mother and the Phallus

Groupwork With Mothers Who Have Been Sexually Abused in Childhood

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