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Bidragsyter: Sigrun

Da jeg leste kommentaren til Jørgen Lund, kom jeg til å tenke på doktoravhandlingen til Anna Luise Kirkengen, som omhandler seksuelt misbrukte pasienters erfaringer med helsevesenet – erfaringer med ulike typer behandling som ofte gjorde vondt verre.

Kirkengen forteller en historie om psykiateren Tormod Huseby. Som ung lege fikk Huseby en psykotisk pasient som alle trodde snakket i symbolske vendinger når hun fortalte om voldtekt.

Det gjorde hun ikke.

Les den rørende historien, her fra Kirkengens bok Inscribed Bodies: Health Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse.

På nettstedet til psykologen Alice Miller forteller en israelsk lege om en pasient som var blitt seksuelt misbrukt:

She talked to me about being sexually harassed by one of the staff, and this was interpreted (after a formal, non revealing “investigation”) as a sign of “deterioration” in my patient’s “condition”. This was not the first time she was talking about sexual abuse. My patient was first hospitalized when she was sixteen. She was reportedly very upset then and talked loudly about being sexually exploited by her father and uncle. Massive doses of medication and intensive “medical” brainwash made her take back what she said and denounce the truth. Since then she was hospitalized several times, every time with a new “paranoia” about sexual harassment.