Conclusion
Well, when I had Susan listen to the tape of her session with me it became clear-even to her-that her own intuitive feminine wiles had helped to create and to sustain this self-destructive incestuous relationship.
She cried bitterly when she had finally come to face the undeniable conclusion that she shared most-if not all-of the deep, torrid desire that her father had shown for her. No easy solution existed, of course. And the mere recognition of the facts was not enough to alter them.
Arranging, through means that it is unnecessary to report here, for Susan to live with relatives in the suburbs of the city, I succeeded in persuading her father to seek intensive, professional help.
GENERAL CONCLUSION
Probably no neurosis is hopeless. Certainly, almost every form of sexual deviation, perversion or disturbance can be considerably helped by the proper psychotherapeutic treatment. However, prevention is always better than cure. And the understanding of how sexual problems arise-just where it all begins, to corrupt and to destroy if unchecked, the awakening sexual aliveness in young teenage girls can prove enormously therapeutic and preventative-not only with psychologists and clinicians in general-but with the lay public as well.
I have been involved in the specialty of sex-therapy for troubled adolescents for well over fifteen years. In that time I have become enormously sympathetic with the teenager's problems of growth and self-development in a society that often perverts all concepts and ideas revolving around sex and morality. I believe that the hope of any cure for any individual lies, predominantly, within oneself. But an enlightened culture, and a concerned, interested and educated public can do much to spur individual incentive for healthful growth and maturity.
It should be the aim of every clinician to deal with the education of the public-as well as with the treatment of his client-since every individual has come to him from that public.
It was with my desire to document the often startling case histories of various adolescent girls, that prompted me to write this book.
If a better understanding, and a fuller appreciation of the complexities of sexual maladjustment has taken place through a study of these pages, then my efforts will have been amply rewarded.