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Incest is a fashionable subject again along with many other forms of sexual and child abuse. Unfortunately, its repercussions are usually presented in a sensational and superficial way. Freud's brilliant insights into the way in which actual incestuous experiences interweave with intrapsychic conflicts, fantasies, and defenses are forgotten or ignored by nonpsychoanalysts.
We still know very little about the prevalence of incest, its deeper effect on the whole family structure, its inner meaning for the child at the time, and its ramifications throughout adulthood. Here, then, is a very valuable little book that provides just such a psychoanalytically informed study, one of 25 adult women who were victims of childhood incest, cases supported by clear evidence. The authors are two skilled psychoanalytic group therapists working in Topeka.
Most impressive about this book is the unusually open and honest way Ganzarain and Buchele describe the group therapy process. They convey the immediacy of the experience, without the tidying-up so often characteristic of the presentation of case material. And, offering no easy panacea,