Father-Daughter Incest

With a New Afterword

Judith Lewis Herman

    Preface

    Author's Note, 2000: In Memory of Lisa Hirschman

    Introduction: Cinderella or Saint Dympna

    PART 1: The Incest Secret
    1. A Common Occurrence
    2. The Question of Harm
    3. The Question of Blame
    4. The Rule of the Father

    PART 2: Daughter's Lives
    5. Incestuous Fathers and Their Families
    6. The Daughter's Inheritance
    7. Seductive Fathers and Their Families

    PART 3: Breaking Secrecy
    8. The Crisis of Disclosure
    9. Restoring Families
    10. Criminal Justice
    11. Remedies for Victims
    12. Preventing Sexual Abuse

    Afterword, 2000: Understanding Incest
    Twenty Years Later

    Appendix: The Incest Statutes, by Leigh Beinen

    Notes

    Index

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Judith Lewis Herman, M.D., is Psychiatric Director of the Women’s Mental Health Collective, Somerville, Massachusetts.