Related Experiment Video
Updated: Aug 15, 2026

Using Visual and Narrative Methods to Achieve Fair Process in Clinical Care
Published on: February 16, 2011
Male survivors' perspectives of incest/sexual abuse
1London Psychiatric Hospital, London, Ontario, Canada. slray@julian.uwo.ca
Purpose:
To show how understanding the aftereffects of incest and other forms of sexual abuse from male survivors' perspectives may help clinicians identify males with a possible history of sexual abuse.
Methods:
Audiotaped interviews with 25 male survivors described the aftereffects in eight life areas. Data were analyzed by the double-coding qualitative method.
Findings:
Themes identified included isolation, anger, depression/suicidal feelings, addictions, or low sense of self, and distant relationships with men and women.
Conclusions:
Clinicians need to explore the possibility of a history of sexual abuse with males who seek treatment for addictions, suicidal ideation, depression, and chronic low self-esteem.
Related Concept Videos
Traumatic Memory
Psychosexual Stages of Personality: Genital
Psychosexual Theory of Development
The Five Stages of Psychosexual Development
Freud's psychosexual...
Ethnic Identity within a Larger Culture
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Relationship with Other Adult Family Members and Siblings

