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The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 65, No. 3, September 2005 ( 2005) DOI: 10.1007/s11231-005-5808-1 Scientific Meeting of The American Institute for Psychoanalysis Edited by Nancy Goldman, C.S.W. DISCOVERING CHILD ABUSE Presenter: Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Ph.D. Date: November 18, 2004 Maltreatment of children is a subject often addressed in psychoanalysis. Over the past 40 years, research has established four subfields of child maltreatment: physical abuse, neglect, sexual abuse, and emotional abuse. On November 18, 2004, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl presented an informative account of the historical development of the field of child abuse and neglect, and the relevance of our cur- rent system of classifications. Young-Bruehl proposed that our thinking about child abuse in the above-men- tioned categories is, in fact, inadequate for the subject. She noted that the concept of child abuse was not established until the late nineteenth century and was then classified and categorized quickly, without much thought. Young-Bruehl argued that the chief obstacle to the discovery of child abuse and neglect is a shared dis- belief that some parents cannot fulfill their responsibilities as parents—particularly their child’s expectation to be loved. In addition, she argued that this inability to fulfill parental responsibilities is a form of prejudice against
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Published: Jan 1, 2005
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