Narratives of sexual abuse are always social constructions. They are shaped by developmental and relational factors, as well as by historical events. Because psychodynamic therapy places highest value on subjective, inner truth, it is poorly adapted to the task of determining “historical” truth as required by the legal system.

For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part, but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now we see through a glass, darkly, but then we will see face to face. —I Corinthians 13