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Practitioners helping adult survivors of child sexual abuse need to be aware of the thought processes of offenders. The premise of Anna Salter's major book is that those who do not recognize an internalized perpetrator when they hear one will often be frustrated by the tenacity of the survivor's self blame. Primarily oriented towards treating adult survivors, this invaluable book will also be useful for treating sex offenders. It includes discussion of crucial issues such as: what clinicians who treat survivors need to know about sex offenders; the different ways sadistic and nonsadistic offenders think and the resulting different `footprints' they leave in the heads of survivors; how trauma affects survivors' world-views;
Sadistic versus Nonsadistic Offenders and Their Effects on Victims
Sadistic versus Nonsadistic Offenders and Their Effects on Victims
Sadistic Offenders
Of the different typologies for classifying offenders, the division of the subgroupings into sadistic and nonsadistic has the most salience for understanding victims because of the dramatic difference in the victim's experience. Sadistic offenders have been discussed extensively in regard to rape/murder (Holmes & De Burger, 1988; Leyton, 1986; Ressler, Burgess, & Douglas, 1988; Ressler, Burgess, Douglas, Hartman, & D'Agostino, 1986; Rule, 1980; Wilson & Seaman, 1992), but less has been written about chronic sadistic abuse, and still less about chronic sadistic abuse of children.
Langevin (1990) defines sadism as “a sexual anomaly whereby an individual derives sexual gratification from the power and control over his victim, from ...
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