CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE, BODY IMAGE AND TALE OF THE ANT
The authors present the results of a projective test, the Tale of the Ant (De Tychey, 1993, 2010), likely to provide some markers of sexual abuse affecting the child's body image. They compare the Tale-of-the-Ant responses of two groups of children: 120 children between 4 and 12 years of age who had participated in an earlier validation of the test compared to 40 children assessed by legal experts who concurred on the plausibility of their having been sexually abused. The Tale of the Ant seems to be a good clinical tool for the difficult task of diagnosing sexual abuse.