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  title info:
    title: My mother, my abuser
  name:
    name part: Courchesne, Helene.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Messier, Nicole.
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Documentary.
  genre: Streaming videos.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: New York, NY
    publisher: Filmakers Library
    date issued: 2006
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (41 min.)
  abstract: The sexual abuse of children committed by women, most often mothers, is a rarely documented subject. In this film, six victims of maternal incest powerfully convey their nightmarish child hoods. "It is common that young children do not have the words to tell other people" says Michelle Elliott, psychologist and author of Female Sexual Abuse of Children. The abuse often begins in infancy when children do not understand what their mother is doing. They lose hope that anyone will stop it and cannot talk about it until decades later. Often, physical violence accompanies the sexual abuse. From the age of two for eleven years, Lucy was abused by her mother who tried to smother her with a pillow when she refused to submit. The mother began abusing Lucy's younger sister when Lucy reached thirteen. Paul could not share his memories of abuse and feelings of abandonment with anyone. His secret dragged him into depression, hallucinations and institutionalization. The psychologist Monique Tardif of the Institute Philippe Pinet in Montreal says many incestuous mothers were abused by their fathers and later treat their own children as rivals for their husbands love. She believes sexual abuse by mothers is much more common than formerly believed. The trauma is very deep and the victims often suffer for the rest of their lives. Ironically, many victims continue to seek maternal love long after they have been in therapy and have articulated the awful truth.
  target audience: For High School; College; Adult audiences.
  target audience: general
  note: by Nicole Messier and Helene Courchesne.
  note: English.
  subject:
    topic: Child sexual abuse
    topic: Psychological aspects
  subject:
    topic: Incest
  subject:
    topic: Mothers
  subject:
    topic: Women child molesters
  subject:
    topic: Inceste
  subject:
    topic: Mères
  subject:
    topic: Femmes pédophiles
  subject:
    topic: Child sexual abuse
    topic: Psychological aspects
  subject:
    topic: Incest
  subject:
    topic: Mothers
  subject:
    topic: Women child molesters
  classification: PN1200eb
  classification: 362.76
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Filmakers Library online
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: ALSTP
    record creation date: 080405
    record change date: 20241201225502.6
    record identifier: in00005535884
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng