Sexual transgressions in the family and towards children are manifestation of boundary violations on many levels: Between fantasy and reality, between subject and object and between generational roles. 

 

The complex phenomena of collusion around enmeshment, coercion of power and creation of a permissive environment will be discussed in the context of both repetitive and reparative processes in a therapy group with adults who suffered childhood sexual abuse.

 

Anne Helene Døssing is a psychologist, specialized in psychotherapy and group analysis and is also a leader of a treatment facility for adults who suffer long term consequences of childhood sexual abuse (CSM Midt Nord). The treatment facility offers individual and group psychotherapy within a relational psychodynamic approach and also the possibility of rehabilitation group settings. She is also a teacher at IGA, Aarhus since 2014.