Estela Welldon brings together a generous selection derived from her many literary gems, in which she illustrates her groundbreaking--and sometimes explosive--studies of female sexuality and perversions, perverse transference, malignant bonding, perverse motherhood, and the impact upon children of viewing domestic violence. Along with these are vivid descriptions of group analytic psychotherapy with forensic patients and, uniquely, of the joint group treatment of incest survivors and perpetrators. She also outlines the development of forensic psychotherapy as a new field of clinical and...

Im vorliegenden Buch analysiert Welldon an Fallbeispielen betroffener Frauen die Ursachen für Kindesmissbrauch, Inzest und Prostitution entlang der Abwertung, die die Mutter in der Gesellschaft erfährt. Beim Versuch, das Wesen der Perversion zu beschreiben, legt die Autorin das Hauptaugenmerk auf das Verstehen der betroffenen Menschen.