Tag Archives: Covert Incest

  • Understanding Covert Incest and Its Impact
    Thursday, August 1st, 2024

    Understanding Covert Incest and Its Impact

    Dr. Robert Weiss LCSW, CSAT Covert incest, also known as emotional incest and parental enmeshment, is the surreptitious, indirect, sexualized emotional abuse of a child by a parent, stepparent,...
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  • What Is Covert Incest?
    Monday, April 24th, 2023

    What Is Covert Incest?

    David Fawcett PhD It is well understood that addictions tend to be caused by a combination of genetic and environmental influences. Among the most potent environmental risk factors is...
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  • The Longer-Term Impacts of Covert Incest?
    Monday, July 18th, 2022

    The Longer-Term Impacts of Covert Incest?

    Scott Brassart Typically, covert sexual abuse, defined in my previous post, occurs when a child’s parents have distanced themselves from one another physically and emotionally. (Often, this is caused...
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