Female Therapist Sexual Assault and Dissociation
Added 2026-01-02 12:00:06 +0000 UTC
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I really likes the discussion on what it means to be assaulting vs assaulted and that only the victim can decided/know if they were assaulted even if assaulting behavior happened to them (hope I make sens). I like that it gives power back to the "victim" instead of taking it away again by forcing a narrative on them. It raised a question for me though. When I imagine the same speech concerning a parent sexually abusing their 5 yo child it feels so wrong for me to open the door to... Lets say the grown up 5 yo not having been assaulted. I wonder what you and the listeners think about that. Is it still true just very very unlikely? Is there a difference because its a child? If so, what is that difference? The size of the gap of power between the two people? And if we say that there is no difference, that this type of assault is also not necessarily going to end up in a person being assaulted, then how do we position ourselves when a "victim" does not feel victimized? Chances are that they have been victimized but are using defense mechanisms. I'm not really asking what we should say to that person cause even if we would magically KNOW that they were indeed victimized, confrontation and breaking down of the defense mechanisms might not be the way. But I guess I am asking how we should position ourselves internally. How far can we go in accepting (internally) the narrative that a person was not abused by an abusive act? Does it feel harder for you to position yourself in the exemple of incest like it does for me? Im gonna stop rambling now^^ The podcast was great food for thought!
Laurence Provost
2026-01-21 17:45:28 +0000 UTCYay! Glad Dr. Drane was back again so soon!
RS
2026-01-02 23:43:44 +0000 UTCVery interesting episode! Also I love the collab between the two of you.
Melly
2026-01-02 21:17:07 +0000 UTCI'm enjoying this new collaboration between the two of you. Sometimes I find it hard to differentiate between who's talking because you not only sound similar but your perspective can be nearly identical!
Janine O'Sullivan
2026-01-02 18:38:54 +0000 UTCIn the 1980s, when I was a university student in NYC, my dermatologist was calling me at home on weekends trying to take me out to dinner “to discuss my treatment.” lol. I didn’t go. He was a med school professor, too.
Cynthia White
2026-01-02 15:38:25 +0000 UTC
