The complexity of this topic necessitates focusing on prototypical situations which highlight the relationship between incest and severe personality disorders. Hence many aspects of the subject will not be examined here. I deal mainly with the `narcissistic contract' between the incestuous partners and with the traumatic consequences for the victim, after experiencing the breakdown of basic boundaries during incest. I quote from our group psychotherapy work with Dr Bonnie Buchele, both with victims and offenders, in separate groups (Ganzarain and Buchele, 1988, 1990).
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