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ABSTRACT This study seeks to further elucidate the internal worlds of sexually abused “looked-after” children using quantitative and psychodynamic qualitative methods. It employs Story Stem Assessment Profile (SSAP) data to explore representations of self and other within a latency-aged (5–10 years) sample who are “looked-after” and were known to have experienced historical sexual abuse (SA). The SSAP’s coding system is harnessed for comparisons of SA children with both generic maltreated (MALT) and normative (COMM) groups, and a psychoanalytically informed thematic analysis of the narrative data is undertaken to shed light on unconscious patterns of representation. Eight codes that were statistically significant for the SA group were explored alongside three key qualitative themes (blurred boundaries, sense of threat and sound). The study presents considerations for future research and clinical intervention by illustrating how the impact of sexual abuse can manifest in children’s internal worlds.
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The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child is recognized as a preeminent source of contemporary psychoanalytic thought. Published annually, it focuses on presenting carefully selected and edited representative articles featuring ongoing analytic research as well as clinical and theoretical contributions for use in the treatment of adults and children. Initiated in 1945, under the early leadership of Anna Freud, Kurt and Ruth Eissler, Marianne and Ernst Kris, this series of volumes soon established itself as a leading reference source of study. To look at its contributors is to be confronted with the names of a stellar list of creative, scholarly pioneers who willed a rich heritage of information about the development and disorders of children and their influence on the treatment of adults as well as children. An innovative section, The Child Analyst at Work, periodically provides a forum for dialogue and discussion of clinical process from multiple viewpoints.
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