Relational trauma and oppression: clinical work with young men groomedand sexually abused as children

From his work in the Portman Clinic with perpetrators and survivors of child sexual abuse, Nathanson explores in detail the process of grooming and links it to theories of oppression. He uses clinical examples to elucidate the process or grooming, taking the perspectives of both perpetrator and victim. He links the process to issues around authority and how these impacts upon the transference.