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The Io Syndrome: Symptom Formation in Victims of Sexual Abuse
Author(s) -
Mayr Suzanne,
Price Joseph L.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
perspectives in psychiatric care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1744-6163
pISSN - 0031-5990
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6163.1989.tb01216.x
Subject(s) - mythology , sexual abuse , psychodynamics , psychology , psychiatry , psychotherapist , clinical psychology , psychoanalysis , medicine , poison control , suicide prevention , medical emergency , art , literature
The sexual abuse of women today is analyzed alongside the mythology of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Two thousand years ago, Ovid unfolded a world view of human beliefs and practices that make up today's symptom formation and psychodynamic in victims of sexual abuse. Herewith the mythology of Io. Her rape and subsequent symptom formation is understood as a clinical account of rape‐trauma syndrome and post‐traumatic stress disorder.