The Poisoning of Desire

The Destruction of Agency and the Recovery of Psychic Integrity in Sexual AbuseFootnote
* This article is based on a discussion by Jonathan H. Slavin, Ph.D. of papers by Howard Levine, M.D., Robert Stolorow, Ph.D. and Sheila Namir, Ph.D., and Darlene Ehrenberg, Ph.D., presented at the Spring Meeting of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39), Philadelphia, April 1992; and a discussion by Jonathan H. Slavin, Ph.D. and Linda Pollock, Psy.D. of papers by Mary Gail Frawley, Ph.D. and Jody Messler Davies, Ph.D., presented at a symposium of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Toronto, August 1993. Some of the central ideas discussed here emerged in conversations with Lisa Kaplan, Psy.D. Thanks to Jody Davies, Ph.D., Irene Fast, Ph.D., Jay Greenberg, Ph.D., Patricia Hertz, LICSW, K. Tracy Munn, Ph.D., Maureen Murphy, Ph.D., and Malcolm O. Slavin, Ph.D. for their careful reading and comment.

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Jonathan H. Slavin, Ph.D., director, Counseling Center, Tufts University; founding president, Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis; scholar in residence, Counseling Service, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Linda Pollock

Linda Pollock, Psy.D., president, Massachusetts Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology; consulting psychologist, Counseling Center, Tufts University; faculty, Boston Institute for Psychotherapy.

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