title: Transference paradigms at play in psychoanalytically oriented group therapy with female adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse.
abstract: This article presents a psychoanalytically oriented model of group treatment for female adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Two key treatment issues--the survivor's struggle to trust her own mind and her tenacious allegiance to an omnipotent, all-bad self-representation--are used to illustrate ways in which the transference/countertransference matrix of the group permits members to enact, identify, and work through central internalized relational configurations. The group therapist's role is to maintain transitionality, a focus on process, and the capacity for play.
authors.affiliation: Derner Institute, Adelphi University, USA.
authors.forename: M G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Frawley-O'Dea
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011572:Psychoanalysis; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group; D012649:Self Concept; D014167:Transference, Psychology