This creative writing document, DISABUSE, chronicles the impact of formerly repressed incest memories upon its male writer, just prior to beginning work on the Ph.D. in Creative and Critical Writing at the University of East Anglia. The male writer's interests prior to beginning…
This proposed counseling research intervention presents tools mental health clinicians can use to improve psychotherapeutic treatment by understanding shame, guilt, and silence when addressing sexual trauma in female incest survivors. Research often focuses on survivor populatio…
The present study compared pathologies of adult male survivors of religious-leader (clergy) perpetrated childhood sexual abuse (CP-CSA) and of incestuous childhood sexual abuse (I-CSA), as measured by the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2). Gender and betrayal …
This thesis examines intersubjective and therapeutic processes of narrative self-construction as they emerge in three recent women's autobiographies of trauma and healing. Autobiographical narration, the thesis suggests, is an illocutionary act addressed to a reader with whom th…
In order to assess the purpose and function of the incest narratives in the Pentateuch and the incest prohibitions of Leviticus 18, the following examination constitutes a formal analysis of ancient Israelite kinship terminology. According to anthropologists, only through a form…
This thesis explores both works of fiction and non-fiction through which several Middle Eastern and Arab-American women writers have rebelled against traditional religious and ethical standards of their cultures in order to assert their individuality and independence. The writer…
This study uses the psychoanalytic theory of folkloristics to develop the claim that international rainbow-serpent folklore is ubiquitously associated with incest and incest-related diseases. Using original fieldwork (conducted among indigenous Andean Quechua speakers) as an in-…
The main concern of this dissertation is the reasons for the condemnation of the nations in Lev. 18. The research is based on the hypothesis that the origin of incestuous practices in this text is erroneously attributed to the Canaanites and Egyptians. We did an exegetical study…
The story of Noah's drunkenness in Gen. 9:20-25 is ambiguous, allowing for multiple interpretations, including the possibility that Ham sexually violated Noah's wife. Gen. 19:30-38 interprets Gen. 9:20-25 as maternal incest, presenting Lot's fathering of Moab and Ammon by his da…
Synopsis: Throughout history humans have been fascinated with incest. Stories, fables, literature, philosophers, church officials, and scientists have explored this mysterious topic. The taboo is critical to human survival, as incest threatens the species and patterns of human s…