Traumatic events challenge an individual's view of the…

“Some readers may find it a curious or even unscientific endeavour to craft a criminological model of organised abuse based on the testimony of…

— Michael Salter

“This vacillation between assertion and denial in discussions about organised abuse can be understood as functional, in that it serves to contain the traumatic…

— Michael Salter

“In projecting onto others their own moral sense, therapists sometimes make terrible errors. Child physical abusers are automatically labeled “impulsive," despite extensive evidence that…

— Anna Salter

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.

— Anonymous

“Complexly traumatized children need to be helped to engage their attention in pursuits that do not remind them of trauma-related triggers and that give…

— Sarah Benamer

“Oddly then, in our search for meaning, we often assign victims too much blame for their assaults, and offenders too little. Our inconsistencies do…

— Anna Salter

“We mute the realization of malevolence- which is too threatening to bear - by turning offenders into victims themselves and by describing their behavior…

— Anonymous

“What we call as burden of life is nothing but the human failure on the matter of creating a just world!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I have been through and seen so many dramas and traumas and been in so many situations that I can probably interpret a few…

— James Arthur

“After a series of traumas, one can lose the capacity to feel fear appropriately.”

— Jessica Stern

You need to take the traumas and make them part of who you've come to be, and you need to fold the worst events…

— Andrew Solomon

no one had experiences any more, only traumas.

— Beryl Bainbridge

“Without the personal traumas, tribulations and ‘terribles’ that I have experienced throughout life, I wouldn’t have gained the information necessary to write this book…

— Emma James

The willingness to face traumas - be they large, small, primitive or fresh - is the key to healing from them. They may never…

— Mark Epstein

The real challenge is to remember to see clearly when everything's flying around us and we're wrapped up in our [emotional] wounds and traumas.

— Mark Nepo