TY - JOUR
T1 - Incest in psychiatric practice
T2 - A description of patients and incestuous relationships
AU - Westermeyer, J.
PY - 1978/1/1
Y1 - 1978/1/1
N2 - Patients reporting incest resembled the author's other patients in age, sex, marital status, education, residence and social class. Both initiating and receptive partners were represented among these patients. In two-thirds of 32 patients, incest had occurred more than 1 yr previously. Not one clinical picture predominated. 32 patients had been involved in 42 incestuous relationships. Initiating partners, always older, included 32 men and 10 women. Coitus was the most frequent sexual activity; homosexual relations were present in 4 instances only. Adults initiating incest had usually lost access to adult sexual partners by death, divorce, illness, or marital partners' refusal to cohabit.
AB - Patients reporting incest resembled the author's other patients in age, sex, marital status, education, residence and social class. Both initiating and receptive partners were represented among these patients. In two-thirds of 32 patients, incest had occurred more than 1 yr previously. Not one clinical picture predominated. 32 patients had been involved in 42 incestuous relationships. Initiating partners, always older, included 32 men and 10 women. Coitus was the most frequent sexual activity; homosexual relations were present in 4 instances only. Adults initiating incest had usually lost access to adult sexual partners by death, divorce, illness, or marital partners' refusal to cohabit.
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M3 - Article
C2 - 681299
AN - SCOPUS:0017888923
SN - 0160-6689
VL - 39
SP - 643
EP - 648
JO - Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
JF - Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
IS - 8
ER -
