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Betrayed as Boys: Psychodynamic Treatment of Sexually Abused Men.

Richard B. Gartner.

Guilford. 1999.

ISBN: 9781572306448.

Betrayed as Boys examines how sexual betrayal affects boys into adulthood, including emotional development, gender and sexual identity, relationships, dissociation, and therapeutic engagement. The later chapters address therapeutic relationships and group therapy, and the book’s aim is not just symptom reduction but a more integrated sense of self and capacity for intimacy.

Its approach blends psychoanalytic/psychodynamic understanding with trauma-oriented clinical practice. That makes it especially relevant if you are interested in how abuse history shapes transference, boundary problems, self-organization, and the therapist’s stance in long-term treatment.

Richard B. Gartner is a clinical psychologist trained as a family therapist and interpersonal psychoanalyst. He has been closely associated with work on male sexual victimization.

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