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1974 Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry

This object symbolizes the ways in which the fields of medicine and mental health have often overlooked women's issues and sometimes acted in direct opposition to their interests. Van der Kolk explains how surprised he was when he started to work at a mental hospital where it seemed that nearly every woman in the facility eventually shared with him that she had been the victim of incestuous abuse. Much later in the text, he returns to a discussion of this object and provides specific details. The reason for Van der Kolk's surprise came from his past interactions with this object, which estimated that only one in one million women had ever been exposed to episodes of incest, and that of those who were, "the vast majority of them were none the worse for the experience" (188).

Cage

This object symbolizes immobility. When Steven Meier conducted...

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