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The term sexual trauma refers to a sexual situation that causes intense fear because the subject, a child, is exposed to it in a state of passivity and unpreparedness.
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The term [[sexual]] [[trauma]] refers to a sexual [[situation]] that causes intense [[fear]] because the [[subject]], a [[child]], is exposed to it in a [[state]] of [[passivity]] and unpreparedness.
Classical psychiatry was already interested in traumas when Freud was developing his ideas. He borrowed the term, but replaced the psychiatric notion of a shock from a serious accident causing a fear of death with that of the impact of sexual aggressions against children. In a letter of October 15, 1895, he wrote to Wilhelm Fliess: "Have I revealed the great clinical...
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Classical [[psychiatry]] was already interested in traumas when [[Freud]] was developing his [[ideas]]. He borrowed the term, but replaced the [[psychiatric]] [[notion]] of a shock from a serious accident causing a fear of [[death]] with that of the impact of sexual aggressions against [[children]]. In a [[letter]] of October 15, 1895, he wrote to Wilhelm [[Fliess]]: "Have I revealed the great [[clinical]]...
  
  

Latest revision as of 23:03, 20 May 2019

The term sexual trauma refers to a sexual situation that causes intense fear because the subject, a child, is exposed to it in a state of passivity and unpreparedness. Classical psychiatry was already interested in traumas when Freud was developing his ideas. He borrowed the term, but replaced the psychiatric notion of a shock from a serious accident causing a fear of death with that of the impact of sexual aggressions against children. In a letter of October 15, 1895, he wrote to Wilhelm Fliess: "Have I revealed the great clinical...