Father-Son Incest: Underreported Psychiatric Problem?

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1978

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American Psychiatric Publishing

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Six families are described in which 10 sons were involved incestuously with a natural father (N=4) or step-father (N=2). Father-son incest as a part of the spectrum of child abuse appears to be a more frequent clinical entity than was thought previously.

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Katharine N. Dixon, L. Eugene Arnold and Kenneth Calestro, "Father-Son Incest: Underreported Psychiatric Problem?," The American Journal of Psychiatry 135, no. 7 (1978)