Hypnotic elucidation of isolation and displacement following a sexual assualt.
A 19 year old girl was physically beaten and her life endangered during an abortive sexual assault. The repressed emotional components of the experience were retrieved during hypnosis 10 years later, and displacement of affect in relation to the event was also clarified. The psychological issues involved in these circumstances were related to weight reduction efforts by the patient and for which she was seeking help.
D000339:Affect; D004208:Displacement, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006990:Hypnosis; D008568:Memory; D012094:Repression, Psychology; D012742:Sex Offenses