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"I felt like a slut": the cultural context and women's response to being raped.
Leslie Lebowitz,Susan Roth +1 more
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This paper examined how cultural beliefs (cultural constructions about women) about women influence how women survivors of rape make sense of their traumatic experience and highlighted the ways in which cultural beliefs about women, sexuality, and rape become salient to women, and are accessed by them as they struggle to bring meaning to the experience of being raped.Abstract:
This paper examines how cultural beliefs (cultural constructions) about women influence how women survivors of rape make sense of their traumatic experience. A thematic content analysis of interviews with female survivors of rape was undertaken to provide a systematic description of the phenomenology of the experience. This paper reports on one major finding which highlighted the ways in which cultural beliefs about women, sexuality, and rape become salient to women, and are accessed by them as they struggle to bring meaning to the experience of being raped. The nature of these beliefs and their implications for response and recovery are discussed.read more
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Complex PTSD in Victims Exposed to Sexual and Physical Abuse: Results from the DSM-IV Field Trial for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between age of onset, duration, abuse type, and complex PTSD (CP) lifetime diagnosis for women and men in the DSM-IV Field Trial.
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Phenomenology and psychological assessment of complex posttraumatic states
John Briere,Joseph Spinazzola +1 more
TL;DR: The authors offer a framework for the assessment of psychological responses associated with exposure to early onset, multiple, or extended traumatic stressors, and specific recommendations for use of various generic and trauma-specific child and adult measures are provided.
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Posttraumatic stress disorder following political imprisonment: the role of mental defeat, alienation, and perceived permanent change.
TL;DR: The results suggest that mental defeat, alienation, and permanent change are related to PTSD after interpersonal trauma and may need to be addressed in treatment.
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“MARRYING MY RAPIST?!” The Cultural Trauma among Chinese Rape Survivors
TL;DR: The authors conducted interviews with 35 female rape survivors in Taiwan to examine their self-reported traumatic experiences in relation to the cultural meaning of rape in Chinese society, and identified several kinds of trauma predominantly experienced among the interviewed rape survivors.
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A Stage-by-Dimension Model of Recovery From Sexual Trauma
TL;DR: In this article, a model of treatment-facilitated recovery from sexual trauma is presented, which integrates an ecological view of psychological trauma, the idea that recovery from interpersonal trauma generally unfolds in progressive stages, and a multifaceted definition of what constitutes recovery from psychological trauma.
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