In the course of a critical essay in 1978, Donald H. Reiman pursued an argument similar to F. W. Bateson's, saying William Wordsworth had to remind himself ‘(probably subconsciously) that Dorothy was unacceptable as the object of a romantic or sexual attachment’. Yet there are dissenters including G. Kim Blank, Juliet Barker, and Frances Wilson, who writes: ‘The relationship between the Wordsworths was organized around a notion of perfect and exclusive brother-sister love which was imaginatively assimilated by them both to the point where it became the source of their creative energy, but its physical expression would have been of no interest to them’. Psychologists who study women in such relationships find them prone to depression and poor self-esteem like other victims of physical abuse. Brother-sister incest is a form of family violence highly abusive in nature.