@article{ref1,
title="Interrupting the reenactment cycle: psychotherapy of a sexually traumatized boy",
journal="American journal of psychotherapy",
year="1990",
author="Ellis, P. L. and Piersma, H. L. and Grayson, C. E.",
volume="44",
number="4",
pages="525-535",
abstract="This case study describes the course in psychotherapy of an eight-year-old boy who had been sexually traumatized at an early age by his biological father. He was seen for 35 individual sessions during a three-month hospitalization. Many of the problems evidenced at admission were conceptualized as ineffective attempts to reenact and master the original trauma. Hospitalization provided an environment in which acting-out behaviors could be controlled in a manner sufficient to allow anxiety to be utilized in psychodynamically oriented therapy. A key element in psychotherapeutic work was the recognition that the boy struggled with positive as well as negative feelings toward his abusing father. Individual therapy provided a context in which these ambivalent feelings could be expressed, which ultimately allowed for developmental progression.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0002-9564",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}