The "Wall of Fear": the bridge between the traumatic event and trauma resolution therapy for childhood sexual abuse survivors. Export

@article{citeulike:756104, abstract = {A multitude of published books and papers on child sexual abuse (CSA) describe symptoms, long-term effects, and therapy for survivors of abuse. However, the parallels between the nature of the sexual trauma event(s) as originally experienced by the victim and the therapeutic process into which the survivor later becomes engaged have not been reported. This paper attempts to fill that gap and proposes that the concept of a Wall of Fear is the bridge connecting the two. In the first part of the paper, a model of the CSA experience based upon Furniss (1991) will be explained in order to point out the basis for the dissociation and other symptomatology demonstrated by the CSA victim. Following that, the stages of therapy will be mapped out, with special attention to the concept of the Wall of Fear (Oz, 1999) and traumatic memory resolution (abreactions) and with reference to the experience of the original traumatic events. Therapist fear of decompensation will be addressed.}, address = {Machon Eitan, Kiryat Motzkin, Israel. sherioz@netvision.net.il}, author = {Oz, S.}, citeulike-article-id = {756104}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16203693}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=16203693}, issn = {1053-8712}, journal = {J Child Sex Abus}, keywords = {abuse, review, sexual, therapy}, number = {3}, pages = {23--47}, posted-at = {2006-07-13 05:13:33}, priority = {4}, title = {The "Wall of Fear": the bridge between the traumatic event and trauma resolution therapy for childhood sexual abuse survivors.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16203693}, volume = {14}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:756104 L3 - citeulike-article-id:756104 N2 - A multitude of published books and papers on child sexual abuse (CSA) describe symptoms, long-term effects, and therapy for survivors of abuse. However, the parallels between the nature of the sexual trauma event(s) as originally experienced by the victim and the therapeutic process into which the survivor later becomes engaged have not been reported. This paper attempts to fill that gap and proposes that the concept of a Wall of Fear is the bridge connecting the two. In the first part of the paper, a model of the CSA experience based upon Furniss (1991) will be explained in order to point out the basis for the dissociation and other symptomatology demonstrated by the CSA victim. Following that, the stages of therapy will be mapped out, with special attention to the concept of the Wall of Fear (Oz, 1999) and traumatic memory resolution (abreactions) and with reference to the experience of the original traumatic events. Therapist fear of decompensation will be addressed. IS - 3 JF - J Child Sex Abus SN - 1053-8712 AD - Machon Eitan, Kiryat Motzkin, Israel. sherioz@netvision.net.il EP - 47 TI - The "Wall of Fear": the bridge between the traumatic event and trauma resolution therapy for childhood sexual abuse survivors. VL - 14 SP - 23 KW - abuse KW - review KW - sexual KW - therapy AU - Oz, S PY - 2005/// UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16203693 ER -