A comprehensive guide to the dynamics of incest and to therapy for survivors.

Incest is a social problem of major proportions affecting the lives of one in six American women. This collection of contributions from the most distinguished e

Systemic Treatment of Incest is the first book to take as its primary focus the treatment of incest families. The authors, who have spent a total of 25 years wo

Why is incest widely prohibited? Why does the scope of the prohibition vary from society to society? Why does incest occur despite the prohibition? What are the

She argues that the historical realignment of the categories of class, kinship, and representation that took place with the shift from patriarchal to egalitaria