Father-daughter incest and clinical implications: manifestations of compounding, despotic patriarchal structures of coercive control

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Linda Thai, LMSW, ERYT-200 Related seminars and products

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Linda Thai LMSW (she, her) is a trauma therapist who specializes in cutting edge brain- and body-based modalities for the healing of complex developmental trauma. As an educator and consultant, she is gifted with the capacity to contextualize, synthesize and communicate complex and nuanced issues pertaining to the impact of oppressive systems upon identity, mental health and wellbeing, and the invisibilized wounds of racial trauma. Linda is passionate about breaking the cycle of historical and intergenerational trauma at the individual and community levels, and deeply believes in the healing power of coming together in community to grieve.

 

Born in Vietnam, raised in Australia, and now living in Alaska, Linda is a former child refugee who is not only redefining what it means to be Vietnamese, to be Australian, and to be American United States-ian....she is redefining what it means to be wounded and whole and a healer.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Linda Thai maintains a private practice. She receives compensation as a presenter, and she receives a speaking honorarium from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Linda Thai is the co-founder of Yoga & Twelve-Step Recovery (Y12SR). She is a board member for Asian mental health Collective. She serves as a board member for Asian Mental Health Collective.

Objectives

1. Identify the culturally normative structural forces of patriarchal oppression that maintain male dominance over the bodies and lives of women and children.
2. Identify how the denial of male accountability is reflected in law enforcement and the criminal justice system.
3. Identify the impact of the dynamics of incestuous family systems on treatment implications for the survivor.
4. Develop a clinical understanding of the treatment issues faced by incest survivors.
5. Provide a clinical framework for the treatment of incest survivors.

Outline

• Chrono-Macro: the lay of the land within which incest is more likely to occur - coercive control over women and children
  • The history of father-daughter incest has deep roots where patriarchy has reigned as the dominant theology, as a means to maintaining the purity of royal blood lines and the power of royal families, and as one manifestation of a mindset of ownership and coercive control over the bodies of women and children
  • How the systemic nature of patriarchal attitudes - amplified within cultural dynamics of the pornification of sexuality and the pedophilification of pornography - is reflected in the treatment of those who seek justice for incest - by law enforcement, the judiciary, child protective services, and mental health clinician
• Mezzo: how the Chrono-Macro impacts survivor rights to justice
  • The maintenance of denial of male accountability through the Collusive Mother and the Seductive Daughter tropes
• Micro: Family Dynamics, Survivor, Offender
  • The impact of the dynamics of an incestuous family on treatment implications
  • The factors that contribute towards symptom severity in survivors
  • Common characteristics and symptoms of survivors
    • Complex developmental trauma
    • Betrayal bonding
    • Distortion of the arousal template
    • Dissociation
    • Fragmentation of the attachment system and of the personality
  • Treatment implications and recommendations
  • Phase-oriented trauma treatment approach

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Psychologists
• Social Workers
• Other Mental Health Professionals