"Unexplainable" medical histories and childhood sexual abuse. New doctoral thesis tells you how to investigate the links.
This is a brief summary and a personal reflection on Anne Luise Kirkengen's PhD thesis "Embodiment of sexual boundary violations in childhood". It is written to encourage other clinicians to familiarise themselves with this original and important study. It has high relevance for every clinician who is ever confronted with patients that present medical histories that are "diffuse" or unexplainable according to traditional medical knowledge.
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Department of Psychiatry, National Hospital of Reykjavik, Iceland.
D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008487:Medical History Taking / Q000379:methods*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011582:Psychological Theory; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*