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“I used to teach at an abused children's home. I told the kids, "You all have a manure pile of memories. Nothing you can…

— Rebecca O'Donnell

“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 to trust…

— Alice Jamieson

“As mandatory reporting laws and community awareness drove an increase its child protection investigations throughout the 1980s, some children began to disclose premeditated, sadistic…

— Michael Salter

“If I was set an essay on Friday, I’d spend three hours on Saturday morning in the library. Was that normal? I didn’t know.…

— Alice Jamieson

“One of the reasons a survivor finds it so difficult to see herself as a victim is that she has been blamed repeatedly for…

— Diane Langberg

“Why do I take a blade and slash my arms? Why do I drink myself into a stupor? Why do I swallow bottles of…

— Alice Jamieson

“There were other strange signals and signs. Another day, suddenly felt an almost overwhelming urge to travel to Balitmore. I wanted to 'kidnap' a…

— Cheryl Hersha

“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

“Or in my grandparents's case, the circling worked like this: as they paced around the deck the first time, Lefty and Desdemona were still…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“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

“Treating Abuse Today 3(4) pp. 26-33 TAT: I want to move back to an area that I'm not real comfortable asking you about, but…

— David L. Calof

“You are the king no doubt, but in one respect, at least, I am your equal: the right to reply. I claim that privilege…

— Robert Fagles

“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

“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

“Ninety-six per cent of juvenile prostitutes are fugitives from abusive domestic situations; 66 per cent began working before they turned 16. (Prostitution is their…

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke