Mind Your Language in the Presence of Patriachs Q. When is…

“In the very recent past, we have seen the Church of Rome befouled by its complicity with the unpardonable sin of child rape, or,…

— Christopher Hitchens

“In all the interviews I have done, I cannot remember one offender who did not admit privately to more victims than those for whom…

— Anonymous

“Survivors are damaged to different degrees by their experiences. This does not depend on what happened physically. A Survivor who has been raped will…

— Carolyn Ainscough

“Ritually abusive groups also convince children that something evil has been put inside them. For example, a child is made to believe he or…

— Alison Miller

“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 has about…

— David L. Calof

“She was so upset about a blog that maybe a total of six people read yet had no compassion for her granddaughters who had…

— Erin Merryn

“He pulled my skirt up. I began to worry. Everyone knew he had broken in girls before and I didn't want it to happen…

— Tracey Emin

“It was after a Frontline television documentary screened in the US in 1995 that the Freyds' public profile as aggrieved parents provoked another rupture…

— Judith Jones Beatrix Campbell

“The book argues that even though many cases have been held up as classic examples of modern American “witch hunts,” none of them fits…

— Ross Cheit

“I can't get myself to say what happened next. I cannot cope with even thinking about this let alone living with it." "It is…

— Carolyn Ainscough

“It was that culture of denial that allowed my abuse to take place to start with. Did you know that it wasn't until 1984…

— Carolyn Spring

“The witch-hunt narrative is a really popular story that goes like this: Lots of people were falsely convicted of child sexual abuse in the…

— Ross Cheit

“In the specific case of the use of the term “false memory” to describe errors in details in laboratory tasks (e.g., in word-learning tasks),…

— Jennifer J. Freyd

“Along with the trust issues, one of the hardest parts to deal with is the feeling of not being believed or supported, especially by…

— Erin Merryn

“All I wanted to do was hide away from the world, but I still had a role to play. I had to be 'Girl…

— Girl A