action learned in an abuser's childhood when the abuser himself was a victim of CSA. This perspective also is criticized as an effort to relieve perpetrators of their responsibility for CSA behaviors (Boss, 1992, pp. 113-119).
Greenspun (1994, pp. 1-14) suggests that the intergenerational pattern of father-daughter incest is explained through the concept of projective identification by mother and father into which the daughter is later triangulated. A treatment theory based in systems theory is recommended for such a family. This approach fits into the general pattern of systems theorists and symbolic interactionists who attempt to mitigate the guilt of CSA perpetrators through the implication of other family members as causative agents.
Both systems theory and symbolic interactionism attempt to articulate the links between "cultural ideas, structural arrangement, and several things about feelings: the way we wish we felt, the way we try to feel, the way we feel, the way we show what we feel, and the way we pay a
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