Clinical work · Sexual abuse
Sexual abuse: therapeutic paths
When someone has suffered sexual abuse, the course of their life is irremediably transformed. Two questions then remain, and they are the questions of therapeutic work: how can resilience be activated, and how can a person step out of the victim position?
These two questions form the heart of the work. They are not to be confused with an injunction addressed to the person: nothing that happened is erased, and it is not a matter of asking someone who has suffered to turn the page.
This is where the therapist’s place takes shape. They provide neither the resilience nor the way out of the victim position: they create the conditions in which that movement becomes possible again, and then they accompany it. Decades of practice in systemically oriented therapy have made it possible to draw out the essentials.
These markers extend what a systemic reading brings to the understanding of sexual violence and meet what is known about the processes of resilience.
Source
Perrone, R., & Nannini, M. Violence et abus sexuels dans la famille : une approche systémique et communicationnelle. ESF Sciences humaines.
How to cite this article
Besse, J. (2023, July 9). Sexual abuse: therapeutic paths. Complexe Systémique. https://app.complexe-systemique.com/en_GB/articles/sexual-abuse-therapeutic-paths
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