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Although the phenomenon of child abuse has existed since the dawn of history, it is only in recent decades that changing social values have led to its identification as a widespread medical-social problem that is subject to investigation and solution. It is interesting that among both animals and humans, the instinct to nourish and the impulse to maim and destroy exist side by side. Sigmund Freud, in his paper, ‘A Child is Being Beaten’, described what he considered the universal unconscious wish to hurt the young. He also commented that his patients were more embarrassed by and more reluctant to talk about their sadistic feelings concerning children than they were about their sexual fantasies.
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Smith, S.M. (1979). Child Abuse. In: Current Themes in Psychiatry 2. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04494-8_11
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