
@article{ref1,
title="The Io syndrome: symptom formation in victims of sexual abuse",
journal="Perspectives in psychiatric care",
year="1990",
author="Mayr, S. and Price, J. L.",
volume="25",
number="3-4",
pages="36-39",
abstract="The sexual abuse of women today is analyzed alongside the mythology of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Two thousand years ago, Ovid unfolded a world view of human beliefs and practices that make up today's symptom formation and psychodynamic in victims of sexual abuse. Herewith the mythology of Io. Her rape and subsequent symptom formation is understood as a clinical account of rape-trauma syndrome and post-traumatic stress disorder.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0031-5990",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}