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R Oppenheimer

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PubMed1994

Childhood sexual experiences with adults: adult male psychiatric patients and general practice attenders.

BACKGROUND: Sexual abuse of male children is now believed to be common, and there may be links to adult psychiatric disorders. METHOD: Recollections of sexual experiences with adults in childhood were studied systematically in 115 men attending general practice surgeries and 100 male psychiatric patients. RESULTS: The latter reported more frequent and more serious events before the age of 13 than the general practice attenders. No significant difference was detected for events between the ages of 13 and 15. CONCLUSIONS: Childhood sexual abuse before the age of 13 may be associated with later psychiatric disorders, although the nature of the association remains uncertain. The possible significance of such experiences should be considered when assessing men with mental disorders.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1993

Childhood sexual experiences with adults. A comparison of reports by women psychiatric patients and general-practice attenders.

Reports of childhood sexual experiences with adults were collected from 120 women attending general-practice surgeries and 115 women psychiatric patients. The method of study, research team and county of residence were the same for the two groups. The psychiatric patients tended to report rates of events higher than the general-practice attenders by a factor of 2-3. The results suggest an association between such experiences and later psychiatric patienthood and are compatible with a causal role for them in some cases.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1992

Childhood sexual experiences with adults reported by female psychiatric patients.

A group of 115 female psychiatric in-patients and out-patients were studied, using a self-report questionnaire followed by interview, for evidence of childhood sexual activity with adults. About half of the sample reported some childhood sexual experience, ranging from full sexual intercourse to sexual suggestions. Future research should study the possible role of such experience in the genesis of subsequent psychiatric disorder.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1990

Childhood sexual experiences reported by male psychiatric patients.

One hundred adult male psychiatric patients were investigated concerning their recollections of defined sexual activities occurring with adults before the age of sixteen. Twenty-three subjects reported such events. The events were remembered as having been mostly distressing at the time but their later significance is unclear.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1990

Childhood sexual experiences with adults reported by women with eating disorders: an extended series.

A total of 158 women presenting with clinical eating disorders have been investigated using a self-report questionnaire and subsequent interview concerning their recollections of sexual experiences with adults before the age of 16 and later adverse sexual experiences. About a third reported events in childhood and over half described some adverse experiences. It may be that these experiences are relevant to the subsequent illness in some cases, but greater certainty must await further research. In the meantime, inquiring about such matters would seem to be advisable in the assessment and therapy of eating-disordered patients.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1986

Skull base chordomas.

Chordomas are rare, benign tumors of the nasopharynx. Because of their location at the skull base, removal of these tumors is usually subtotal. Described is the transcervical-transmandibular approach to the skull base which can be employed in removing these tumors.

Chordoma↗