User4/draft/A case of "reconceptualization"

Announcer: So, ladies and gentlemen, we're back, and we're talking to our guest, Mr. Woods, about the momentous changes he has recently been going through in his life.

Interviewer: So, when did you first come to realize that you had been abused as a child?

Mr. Woods: Hmm... as a child, I knew that what my father was doing to me was wrong ... it wasn't normal ... none of the other kids I knew at school were experiencing anything like what I was going through... with my father...

Interviewer: You felt that you had no choice, then?

Mr. Woods: No--my father forced me. I was helpless to resist. He would take me into a small shed behind our house, and then he'd do what he did, you know, including the touching...

Interviewer: The touching made you uncomfortable?

Mr. Woods: Well, yeah--I didn't want him to touch me the way that he did... but he insisted... I didn't have a normal childhood--he robbed me of my innocence...

Interviewer: When did it all start?

Mr. Woods: It started when I was around two years old... actually, for years I couldn't remember all the things that he had done to me--I was so young and, I guess, innocent--you know, ignorant of the ways of the world and what was a normal relationship between a son and his father. That's how he was able to get away with it, I suppose... At first, I thought what he was doing to me was normal...

Interviewer: And did your mother know what he was doing to you?

Mr. Woods: No--he told me to keep it as "our little secret"... I couldn't tell anyone about it...

Interviewer: So when did you change your mind, and decide to disclose?

Mr. Woods: I was having problems with my work, with my wife, and I decided it was time to get some help, so I went into therapy...

Interviewer: The therapy helped?

Mr. Woods: Well, the problems with my wife continued, and eventually we decided to get a divorce.

Interviewer: You began talking to your therapist about your father?

Mr. Woods: Yeah, she's wonderful! I felt I could open up to her about anything... and eventually, she helped me bring back all the memories I had forgotten, you know, when I was very very young...

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