Telling the Story: Before and After

Psychodyn Psychiatry. 2021 Fall;49(3):375-378. doi: 10.1521/pdps.2021.49.3.375.

Abstract

This article offers a coda to "Incest from a Young Age … Lasting a Lifetime" (Moore, 2020). It explains how I started writing about my experiences with incest. I tell about the empathic failure of my analyst who could not hear of the incest. I also describe some of the events that have occurred since the paper was published, many of them unanticipated.

Keywords: childhood sexual abuse; childhood sexuality; empathic failure; incest; trauma.

MeSH terms

  • Child
  • Child Abuse, Sexual*
  • Humans
  • Incest