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Victims of Indecent Exposure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

N. L. Gittleson ,
S. E. Eacott  and
B. M. Mehta
N. L. Gittleson
Affiliation:
Middlewood Hospital, Sheffield S6 1TP
S. E. Eacott
Affiliation:
Whiteley Wood Clinic, Woofindin Road, Sheffield
B. M. Mehta
Affiliation:
Whiteley Wood Clinic, Woofindin Road, Sheffield
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Summary

One-hundred female nurses at a psychiatric hospital were interviewed in an attempt to assess the overall frequency of having been the victim of indecent exposure and to describe it as experienced by the victim.

Forty-four of the subjects had been victims of indecent exposure, one-third of these on two or more occasions.

The attitudes of those who had been victims were no different from the attitudes of those who had not. One-third of all incidents had not been disclosed to anyone. In over one-fifth of the episodes the reaction of the family and friends in whom the victim confided had been more distressing to the victim than the episode itself.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 132 , Issue 1 , January 1978 , pp. 61 - 66
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1978 

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