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Citation

Olafson E, Corwin DL, Summit RC. Child Abuse Negl. 1993; 17(1): 7-24.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1993, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8435789

Abstract

In the last century and a half, public and professional awareness of sexual abuse has emerged and been suppressed repeatedly. The 20th-century suppression of the problem has been linked to Freudianism, sexual modernism, and gender politics. Recent awareness of sexual abuse differs from awareness in the past because of the significant amount of current research attesting to the prevalence of sexual abuse and its injurious impact on human development. However, in the contemporary mental health professions, the courts, and the media, there has emerged an influential backlash against the latest discovery of child sexual victimization that utilizes arguments employed during earlier periods of suppression. Knowledge of the earlier cycles of discovery and suppression can assist professionals in understanding and countering present attempts to deny or minimize the problem of child sexual abuse.


Language: en

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