“After a while, marriage is a sibling relationship--marked by occasional, and rather regrettable, episodes of incest.” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“...Incest is rape by extortion. Thus the child's very childhood becomes a weapon used to control her.” — E. Sue Blume Copy Share Image
“It would appear that I have tried everything except incest and folkdancing.” — Hermione Gingold Copy Share Image
“Coming to terms with incest is not easy. Learning to be a survivor, not a victim, gives new meaning to life” — Lynette Gould Copy Share Image
“The horror of incest is not in the sexual act. but in the exploitation of children and the corruption of parental love.… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“The vast majority of incest begins years before the earliest conceivable age of consent. p4” — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“When trauma involves intentional harm, such as in a crime or abuse, trust can totally collapse.” — Dena Rosenbloom Copy Share Image
“No, not in a creepy way. I am anti-incest. It says so on my bumper sticker.” — Laurel Ulen Curtis Copy Share Image
“The thing is, he was the best kind of guy. Protective and strong, loving and easygoing, funny and honest. He was actually… — Laurel Ulen Curtis Copy Share Image
“I think I know what he is REALLY doing in there... and thinking about ME while doing it." (continuing) "But when he… — Steven L. Sheppard Copy Share Image
“In the same way that the women's movement of the seventies and eighties brought rape and incest into public consciousness, we can… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“All emotions, even those that are suppressed and unexpressed, have physical effects. Unexpressed emotions tend to stay in the body like small… — Marilyn Van M. Derbur Copy Share Image
“Or in my grandparents's case, the circling worked like this: as they paced around the deck the first time, Lefty and Desdemona… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Without realizing it, I fought to keep my two worlds separated. Without ever knowing why, I made sure, whenever possible, that nothing… — Marilyn Van Derbur Copy Share Image
“He's at war with himself. Why doesn't he surrender to his feelings and stop fighting himself? He has hang-ups that I must… — Steven L. Sheppard Copy Share Image
“My goal in going public was not to put my extended family to shame, or to get back at Brian for abusing… — Erin Merryn Copy Share Image
“As recently as 1975, a basic American psychiatry textbook estimated that the frequency of all forms of incest as one case per… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“By developing a contaminated, stigmatized identity, the child victim takes the evil of the abuser into herself and thereby preserves her primary… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“All right, Chris, you've given me a breather. I'm prepared for anything. And thank you for saying all of that, and for… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
“There is a slave trade still in this country—yes, the real and horrific sex and human trafficking trade run by organised criminal… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“Each night I am nailed into place and forget who I am. Daddy? That's another kind of prison. It's not the prince… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“Here ‘the attraction of sexual intercourse between parents and child or grandchild as incest’, ‘Oedipus complex’ and ‘abnormal attachment of persons without… — Lecturer M k Bhutta Copy Share Image
“Our need to be "greater than" or "less than" has been a defense against toxic shame. A shameful act was committed upon… — Maureen Brady Copy Share Image
“The fear of abandonment forced me to comply as a child, but I’m not forced to comply anymore. The key people in… — Christina Enevoldsen Copy Share Image
“Allegations of multi-perpetrator and multi-victim sexual abuse emerged to public awareness in the early 1980s contemporaneously with the denials of the accused… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“One of the reasons a survivor finds it so difficult to see herself as a victim is that she has been blamed… — Diane Langberg Copy Share Image
“Although the terminology implies scientific endorsement, false memory syndrome is not currently an accepted diagnostic label by the APA and is not… — Michelle Rae Hebl Copy Share Image
“German is a much more precise language than English. Americans throw the word love around for everything: I love my wife! I… — Diana Mauer Copy Share Image
“In the 1890s, when Freud was in the dawn of his career, he was struck by how many of his female patients… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“Why do I take a blade and slash my arms? Why do I drink myself into a stupor? Why do I swallow… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“The survivor movements were also challenging the notion of a dysfunctional family as the cause and culture of abuse, rather than being… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
“Treating Abuse Today 3(4) pp. 26-33 TAT: I see the agenda. But let's go back: one of the contentions the therapeutic community… — David L. Calof Copy Share Image
Philosophically, incest asks a fundamental question of our shifting mores: not simply what is normal and what is deviant, but whether such… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
“The child who attends school does not remember the abuse that happens at home or via the family; those memories are held in… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“In general, the more dysfunctional the family the more inappropriate their response to disclosure. Never expect a sane response from an insane… — Renee Fredrickson Copy Share Image
It sounds not only disagreeable but also paradoxical, yet it must nevertheless be said that anyone who is to be really free… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“3. Here ‘the attraction of sexual intercourse between parents and child or grandchild as incest’, ‘Oedipus complex’ and ‘abnormal attachment of persons… — Lecturer M k Bhutta Copy Share Image
“Imagine the message that sent to my sister and me. A cousin violates us, confesses, and walks away with barely a slap… — Erin Merryn Copy Share Image
“Weird? Absurd? That’s how it seemed to me. I had these forces, these compunctions, these alternative personalities inside me, driving me. It… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
![“As recently as 1975, a basic American psychiatry textbook estimated that the frequency of all forms of incest as one case per million. [James Henderson, "Incest", in A. M. Freedman, H.I. Kaplan and B.J. Sadock, eds., Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, 2nd ed. 1975 p. 1532.]” quote by Judith Lewis Herman](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/679/judith-lewis-herman-19218_child-rape_as-recently-as-1975-a-basic-american-psy_1650810.jpg)
