Treatment of perpetrators of sexual violence: Resistance to acceptance
Hugon, Claudette
Treatment of perpetrators of sexual violence: Resistance to acceptance - 2025.
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The therapeutic treatment of sexual offenders within the context of coercive care requires the adaptation of our treatment models, in order to take into account the nature of the case and the various parties involved. (See the works of C. Balier and A. Ciavaldini and their concepts of use of violent acts and interprofessionality). The scale of the damage caused by the acts committed and the disruption they cause increase resistance, which brings about a risk of mirroring these subjects. In this article, after identifying types of resistance (intra-, inter-, and trans-subjective) and their main modalities, we will examine how to promote meaningful communication between individuals, teams, and institutions, in order to mitigate these forms of resistance. We will examine how this collaborative work allows us to agree to get sufficiently close to the horrifying to begin the process of addressing it. Part of this acceptance involves individual unconscious, but it also involves a form of social and institutional acceptance to consider the individuals who commit sexual violence as citizens, human beings, and not just as “monsters.” The current focus on the issue of acceptance could be seen as an invitation to reconsider certain aspects of our social and cultural structures, such as the patriarchy, the self-made man, or the spoiled child.
Treatment of perpetrators of sexual violence: Resistance to acceptance - 2025.
73
The therapeutic treatment of sexual offenders within the context of coercive care requires the adaptation of our treatment models, in order to take into account the nature of the case and the various parties involved. (See the works of C. Balier and A. Ciavaldini and their concepts of use of violent acts and interprofessionality). The scale of the damage caused by the acts committed and the disruption they cause increase resistance, which brings about a risk of mirroring these subjects. In this article, after identifying types of resistance (intra-, inter-, and trans-subjective) and their main modalities, we will examine how to promote meaningful communication between individuals, teams, and institutions, in order to mitigate these forms of resistance. We will examine how this collaborative work allows us to agree to get sufficiently close to the horrifying to begin the process of addressing it. Part of this acceptance involves individual unconscious, but it also involves a form of social and institutional acceptance to consider the individuals who commit sexual violence as citizens, human beings, and not just as “monsters.” The current focus on the issue of acceptance could be seen as an invitation to reconsider certain aspects of our social and cultural structures, such as the patriarchy, the self-made man, or the spoiled child.
Réseaux sociaux