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Incest (event)

Known as: Incest 
Sexual intercourse between persons so closely related that they are forbidden by law to marry.
National Institutes of Health

Related topics

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14 relations
Child Sexual AbuseCoitusDisruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct DisordersPedophilia

Broader (5)

Domestic ViolenceParaphiliasPsychosexual DisordersSex Offenses

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Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Hypnotic Disgust Makes Moral Judgments More Severe
Highly hypnotizable participants were given a posthypnotic suggestion to feel a flash of disgust whenever they read an arbitrary… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Healing the incest wound : adult survivors in therapy
Occasionally a book for psychotherapists instantly becomes a classic. Not only do clinicians recognize the excellence and… 
Review
1992
Review
1992
Effect of incest on self and social functioning: a developmental psychopathology perspective.
The effects of child sexual abuse have become a leading concern of mental health service providers. Despite an explosion of… 
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Judging social issues: difficulties, inconsistencies, and consistencies.
The three studies reported in this Monograph examine high school and college students' reasoning about the issues of abortion… 
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Maternal support following disclosure of incest.
The level of maternal support to incest victims following disclosure was found to be more closely related to perpetrator than to… 
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Symptomatology associated with childhood sexual victimization in a nonclinical adult sample.
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Family characteristics and long-term consequences associated with sexual abuse
As opposed to father—daughter incest, little attention has been paid to the long-term consequences and family dynamics associated… 
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Post-traumatic stress disorders in women who experienced childhood incest.
Review
1983
Review
1983
The persisting negative effects of incest.
Highly Cited
1975
Highly Cited
1975
The search for a general theory of behavior
Failure of the behavioral sciences to develop an adequate general theory is seen as a result of the difficulty in deriving from… 
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