title: The missionary syndrome.
abstract: Early sexual explorations of children that are of a traumatic nature are often labeled by the child as "bad" or "wrong" and subsequently repressed. The guilt that results from the labeling may be intensified at a later date by some other similar incident, and at this time the person may make a binding commitment or promise to God to serve Him in some dutiful way. If, at a later date, these plans to serve God cannot be realized, depression, phobias, or conversion symptomatology may occur, which we have referred to as the Missionary Syndrome.
authors: The University of Tennessee Center for Health Sciences, USA.
authors: R O
authors: RO
authors: Sexton
authors: R C
authors: RC
authors: Maddock