Some abusers on the middle-to-high end of the toxicity…

“Normal people don’t play all the toxic games psychological abusers do, and yet, survivors end up initially blaming themselves.”

— Shannon Thomas

“When survivors get to the point where the relationships are slowly killing them, we must talk about why they won’t choose their own lives…

— Shannon Thomas

“Tenderness from empaths will be used against them time and time again by psychological abusers.”

— Shannon Thomas

“When an abuser gaslights, he or she sets up situations to make the target doubt their own memories and assessments of situations. This is…

— Shannon Thomas

“By the time survivors are compelled to leave their psychologically abusive relationships, they do not see any other viable option but to leave. They…

— Shannon Thomas

“In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. Secrecy and silence are the perpetrator’s…

— Judith Lewis Herman

“In a nutshell, the process they [abusers in a ritual abuse group] use on survivors is designed to: break the will and personality of…

— Laurie Matthew

“(Talking about the movement to deny the prevalence and effects of adult sexual exploitation of children) So what does this movement consist of? Who…

— Beatrix Campbell

“Violators cannot live with the truth: survivors cannot live without it. There are those who still, once again, are poised to invalidate and deny…

— Chrystine Oksana

“Because the problem of ritual abuse and mind control has not gone away - the survivors are still there - many more therapists have…

— Alison Miller

“Treating Abuse Today (Tat), 3(4), pp. 26-33 Freyd: I see what you're saying but people in psychology don't have a uniform agreement on this…

— David L. Calof

“Some abusers organise themselves in groups to abuse children and other adults in a more formally ritualised way. Men and women in these groups…

— Laurie Matthew

“Another preoccupation fed into this dynamic relationship between discovery and denial: does sexual abuse actually matter? Should it, in fact, be allowed? After all,…

— Beatrix Campbell

“Both incest and the Holocaust have been subject to furious denial by perpetrators and other individuals and by highly organised groups such as the…

— Janet Walker

“In this book we paint an unprecedented portrait of Britain’s first ‘false memory’ retraction and show that, like other ‘false memory’ cases which appeared…

— Beatrix Campbell