ABSTRACT
I shall discuss some issues concerned with the psychoanalytic treatment of adults who have memories of being sexually abused as children. Some of what I present is backed up by findings from formal research findings on adults who have been abused as children. I shall look at the nature of the abused mind, the nature of the memories of abuse, and the way that the abusing experience may be repeated in the analysis by making an emotional impact of a particular kind on the analyst. In the analysis of such adults, time and again the analyst may be called upon to bear unbearable experiences, experiences which the immature mind could not deal with, or had to deal with precociously, as it were, before being in a position to master what had been experienced.
