TELL ME YOUR STORY – NARRATIVES OF PERPETRATORS OF INCEST ACTS IN AN ATTEMPT TO UNDERSTAND CRIMINAL BEHAVIOUR
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https://doi.org/10.34813/08coll2023Keywords:
life story, criminal acts, narrative identityAbstract
The paper hereby is an attempt to analyse the narration presented by perpetrators of incest acts and to state what meaning they give to the events in life and the meaning they give to interpersonal relationships, in particular – how they perceive their own family, both in generational and procreative terms. The way they present themselves and their preys, their personal interpretation of life events can be useful as a method supporting the processes of diagnosis and psychotherapy. Out of the statements made by the examined, the common features of the presented stories were analysed in terms of dominating topics, such as : self - perception , generational family, procreational family, as well as the tales they create on the subject of a prey and a woman. In the analysis it was exposed that none of the perpetrators admits his guilt nor do they present the will to right their wrongs . It is very often that the stories concern sexual offence towards daughters lasting for years , both physical and psychological, the history of addictions, the lack of perceiving borders and unbalanced family powers.
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