Psychology Today
We believe this anger over childhood sexual abuse is repressed until a time later in life, when it is triggered or permitted expression, as in psychotherapy. Pribor and Dinwiddie (1992) interviewed women incest survivors (N = 52, ages [is greater than or equal to] 23) to understand more precisely the psychiatric illnesses associated with child sexual abuse. Findings showed incest survivors had more anxiety, depression, and alcohol abuse than the women who did not have histories of sexual abuse. Briere (1989) discussed the effects of childhood sexual abuse on sexuality, and believes women may come to see sex as a potentially dangerous experience they use to achieve other goals such as money, security, or control over others. Blume (1990) wrote that sex can be seen by survivors as a substitute for unmet needs for human contact and affection. Finkelhor and Browne (1985) suggested that one result of childhood sexual abuse is revictimization that further damages the individual. Kitchens (1994) explored the psychosocial consequences of abuse on women, as well as the resulting sexual dysfunction once sexual victimization occurs. The author described the severity of these consequences as varying greatly depending on degree and duratio
The purpose of this study was to gain women's perspectives about their experiences with rage, as a result of childhood sexual abuse, and how they perceive this rage is expressed through their sexuality. Anger is unexpressed by sexually abused children, who fear reprisal or fear that love will be withheld. In addition, these children often do not have good role models for the appropriate expression of anger because their own parents are ill equipped to express anger in a healthy way (Blume, 1990). Walker and colleagues (1992) found patients who reported long histories of child sexual abuse experienced more chronic pelvic pain and showed more psychiatric disturbances than those with a shorter history. Munhall (1993) reported that women who kept silent in anger show an increase in physical illness and substance abuse. Anger that is not given expression or resolution frequently becomes distorted into rage. While anger is something that can be spoken or yelled, rage, when it comes out, is seldom stated in words. When expressed, rage often is overpowering, affecting the entire body and surfacing in unanticipated and often uncontrollable ways (Blume, 1990).
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