“It’s hard to feel supported when you can’t tell people everything. People haven’t really got a clue what it’s like. It’s hard… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
For a decade Americans have been steeped in the rhetoric of "zero tolerance" and the faith that virtually all problems from drug… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
What inspired me most was the resilience of the Cambodian people. The country is still living with the trauma of the brutal… — Joy Bryant Copy Share Image
“According to an article, Sibling Abuse and Bullying: The Hidden Epidemic on Psychology Today by Darlene Lancer, “Often labeled rivalry and ignored,… — Dana Arcuri CTRC Copy Share Image
Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the… — Jessica Stern Copy Share Image
“Just as this scale predicted the future health and happiness of the children in this study, so does knowing and telling our… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“As an undergraduate student in psychology, I was taught that multiple personalities were a very rare and bizarre disorder. That is all… — Deborah Bray Haddock Copy Share Image
I feel a lot of sympathy for the young women I've written about, including Younger Janice. I think that all of them… — Janice Erlbaum Copy Share Image
“When you’re born a light is switched on, a light which shines up through your life. As you get older the light… — Michael Marshall Smith Copy Share Image
“A life of hardship and personal suffering is unavoidable. A person must endure many humiliations of the mind and body, and expect… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“The process of dissociation is an elegant mechanism built into the human psychological system as a form of escape from (sometimes literally)… — Alexandra Katehakis Copy Share Image
“I recently consulted to a therapist who felt he had accomplished something by getting his dissociative client to remain in her ANP… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
A ghost is a human being who has passed out of the physical body, usually in a traumatic state and is not… — Hans Holzer Copy Share Image
“Too often the survivor is seen by [himself or] herself and others as "nuts," "crazy," or "weird." Unless her responses are understood… — Diane Langberg Copy Share Image
“The internal system of an abuse victim differs from the non-abuse system with regard to the consistent absence of the effective leadership,… — Bessel A. van der Kolk Copy Share Image
Strangely enough, for many many years I didn't talk about my childhood and then when I did I got a ton of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
It is not possible to be truly balanced in one's views of an abuser and an abused woman. As Dr. Judith Herman… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
Well to me growing, up I've had my own psychological war with my parents dying at such a young age. My mother… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
“Shame is the bane of my existence both as a trauma therapist and as a survivor, as it is one of the… — Amanda Ann Gregory Copy Share Image
“In lieu of letting go of our trauma and rather than healing completely, in my experience, we learn how to carry it… — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
“We can be trapped by our past and be unable to see what God has ahead for us when we don’t understand… — Ted Roberts Copy Share Image
“…is methodical abuse, often using indoctrination, aimed at breaking the will of another human being. In a 1989 report, the Ritual Abuse… — Chrystine Oksana Copy Share Image
“You hardly asked if I was okay the entire time we were together.” (Jessie) “Okay? You wanted me to ask you if… — Leanne Davis Copy Share Image
“All abusive systems are facilitated by bystanders, whose awareness of what is disavowed is always partial, resulting in a state of knowing… — Sylvia Solinski Copy Share Image
“Somatic Symptoms: People with Complex PTSD often have medical unexplained physical symptoms such as abdominal pains, headaches, joint and muscle pain, stomach… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
Those traumas when it comes to the historical past generation to generation; our children, our grandchildren, our future grandchildren learn these behaviors.… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
“Specific parts of you personality may be angry and are usually easily evoked. because these parts are dissociated, anger remains an emotion… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
“A woman in combat? Yes. Since when? Since Native American warrior Buffalo Calf Road Woman knocked that prick General George Custer off… — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
“Lewis's mental map of reality had difficulty accommodating the trauma of the Great War. Like so many, he found the settled way… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
I have come to the conclusion that human beings are born with an innate capacity to triumph over trauma. I believe not… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
“How do we find words for describing levels of betrayal and emotional, physical, sexual and spiritual torture that fragment and destroy a… — Valerie Sinason Copy Share Image
“Complex PTSD consists of of six symptom clusters, which also have been described in terms of dissociation of personality. Of course, people… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
“The ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“Eating disorders are prevalent among women who were sexually abused as children. They seem to have components of other symptoms such as… — Karen A. Duncan Copy Share Image
“Ritual abuse diagnosis research – excerpt from a chapter in: Lacter, E. & Lehman, K. (2008).Guidelines to Differential Diagnosis between Schizophrenia and… — Randy Noblitt Copy Share Image
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“Which reality should we focus on? Should we focus on the trauma itself? Should we focus on the heroism of women, men,… — Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky Copy Share Image
“Lucien was the first to turn where I lurked in the doorway, falling silent mid-sentence. But then Tamlin's head snapped up, and… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“Changes in Relationship with others: It is especially hard to trust other people if you have been repeatedly abused, abandoned or betrayed… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
“So, what role does memory play in the understanding and treatment of trauma? There is a form of implicit memory that is… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
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