title: Incest in psychiatric practice: a description of patients and incestuous relationships.
abstract: Patients reporting incest resembled the author's other patients in age, sex marital status, education, residence and social class. Both initiating and receptive partners were represented among these patients. In two-thirds of 32 patients, incest had occurred more than 1 year previously. No one clinical picture predominated. Thirty-two patients had been involved in 42 incestuous relationships. Initiating partners, always older, included 32 men and 10 women. Coitus was the most frequent sexual activity; homosexual relations were present in 4 instances. Adults initiating incest had usually lost access to adult sexual partners by death, divorce, illness, or marital partners' refusal to cohabit.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006716:Homosexuality; D006801:Humans; D007179:Incest; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology