Following a case study approach organized around the psychoanalytic process this book addresses clinical issues that arise in analytic work with adults who were sexually abused as children special emphasis is given to the way in which childhood sexual trauma affects the treatment process and influences the contents and quality of transference contributors also focus on the formation of the therapeutic alliance countertransference issues and disturbances in ego functions. Following a case study approach organized around the psychoanalytic process this book addresses clinical issues that arise in analytic work with adults who were sexually abused as children special emphasis is given to the way in which childhood sexual trauma affects the treatment process and influences the contents and quality of transference contributors also focus on the formation of the therapeutic alliance countertransference issues and disturbances in ego functions. Following a case study approach organized around the psychoanalytic process this book addresses clinical issues that arise in analytic work with adults who were sexually abused as children. Current estimates of incest and other childhood sexual abuse range from 12 to 40 depending on settings and population most studies have found that among women approximately 20 or 1 in 5 have experienced childhood sexual abuse 9 consistent with this range studies have revealed that