---
title: "1 Abuser Quotes By Stephen A. Mitchell"
description: "1 Abuser quotes by Stephen A. Mitchell. Plus more from Stephen A. Mitchell and more Abuser sayings from other authors."
image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/48a/stephen-a-mitchell-23028_abuser_davies-and-frawley-believe-that-while-th_2853214.jpg"
---

> [“Davies and Frawley believe that while the child may be a passive victim of the original sexual abuse, the child’s subsequent active elaboration of his or her situation through various fantasies, including reparative longings for magical helpers and identifications with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-a-mitchell/davies-and-frawley-believe-that-while-the-child-may-be-a-passive/)

[Stephen A. Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-a-mitchell/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/48a/stephen-a-mitchell-23028_abuser_davies-and-frawley-believe-that-while-th_2853214.jpg)

## Other authors on Abuser

- [Lundy Bancroft 18 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/abuser/lundy-bancroft/)
- [Shannon Thomas 16 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/abuser/shannon-thomas/)

## More by Stephen A. Mitchell

> [“Freud, again using his conclusions about men’s moral attitudes and functioning as a baseline, had decided that women lack a strong superego and hence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-a-mitchell/freud-again-using-his-conclusions-about-men-s-moral-attitudes-and/)

[Stephen A. Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-a-mitchell/)

> [“Erikson (1950), for example, regarded male genitalia as orienting boys to external space and female genitalia as orienting girls to internal space. Boys”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-a-mitchell/erikson-1950-for-example-regarded-male-genitalia-as-orienting-boys-to/)

[Stephen A. Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-a-mitchell/)

> [“Winnicott’s understanding of the way experience can become traumatizing is quite different from Freud’s. Trauma for Winnicott is not just the introduction of something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-a-mitchell/winnicott-s-understanding-of-the-way-experience-can-become/)

[Stephen A. Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-a-mitchell/)

> [“Loewald suggests that infantile, oedipal love detracts from and interferes with adult love when childhood experience is repressed, too strictly separated from adult experience.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-a-mitchell/loewald-suggests-that-infantile-oedipal-love-detracts-from-and/)

[Stephen A. Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-a-mitchell/)

> [“people often act in a way that provokes precisely the reactions they are expecting. These”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-a-mitchell/people-often-act-in-a-way-that-provokes-precisely-the-reactions-they/)

[Stephen A. Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-a-mitchell/)

> [“Many patients grew up feeling their perceptions of their parents were forbidden and dangerous. They have learned to discount their own often discerning observations…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-a-mitchell/many-patients-grew-up-feeling-their-perceptions-of-their-parents-were/)

[Stephen A. Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-a-mitchell/)

> [“The child is not traumatized by a sexual event, per se; the child is traumatized by parental character pathology. Because”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-a-mitchell/the-child-is-not-traumatized-by-a-sexual-event-per-se-the-child-is/)

[Stephen A. Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-a-mitchell/)

> [“Freud believed that because the core of psychopathology was the repression of conflictual, infantile impulses, which sought disguised gratification from the analyst in many…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-a-mitchell/freud-believed-that-because-the-core-of-psychopathology-was-the/)

[Stephen A. Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-a-mitchell/)

> [“developmental theorists envision a mind rent by vertical splits between different self-states that have not been integrated with one another.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-a-mitchell/developmental-theorists-envision-a-mind-rent-by-vertical-splits/)

[Stephen A. Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-a-mitchell/)

> [“Reclaimed, unrepressed infantile experience enriches rather than detracts from adult experience. The”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-a-mitchell/reclaimed-unrepressed-infantile-experience-enriches-rather-than/)

[Stephen A. Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-a-mitchell/)

> [“Natanijel Brendan nas upoznaje s pričom o dr. Odri Ričards, antropologu koja je tridesetih godina XX veka radila s plemenom Bemba iz Severne Rodezije.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-a-mitchell/natanijel-brendan-nas-upoznaje-s-pri-om-o-dr-odri-ri-ards-antropologu/)

[Stephen A. Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-a-mitchell/)

> [“Janine Chassequet-Smirgel (1988) and other French Freudians, for example, argue that Freud’s phallocentrism was not just wrong, but a motivated error, defending against a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-a-mitchell/janine-chassequet-smirgel-1988-and-other-french-freudians-for-example/)

[Stephen A. Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-a-mitchell/)

> [“In Freud’s account, the male superego is established under the threat of castration anxiety, which forces the boy to abandon his oedipal ambitions, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-a-mitchell/in-freud-s-account-the-male-superego-is-established-under-the-threat/)

[Stephen A. Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-a-mitchell/)

> [“Freud found that the most central childhood problems regularly surface not in discussion but in disguised form in the analytic relationship. It”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-a-mitchell/freud-found-that-the-most-central-childhood-problems-regularly/)

[Stephen A. Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-a-mitchell/)

> [“This fear manifested in Harvey’s self-protective vigilance with the analyst, his continually orchestrating the analytic experience rather than allowing himself to rely on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-a-mitchell/this-fear-manifested-in-harvey-s-self-protective-vigilance-with-the/)

[Stephen A. Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-a-mitchell/)

```json
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@graph": [
        {
            "@type": "ItemList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/abuser/stephen-a-mitchell/#itemlist",
            "name": "1 Abuser Quotes By Stephen A. Mitchell",
            "numberOfItems": 1,
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Davies and Frawley believe that while the child may be a passive victim of the original sexual abuse, the child’s subsequent active elaboration of his or her situation through various fantasies, including reparative longings for magical helpers and identifications with the abuser himself, is also a complex aspect of the problem.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Stephen A. Mitchell"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-a-mitchell/davies-and-frawley-believe-that-while-the-child-may-be-a-passive/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/48a/stephen-a-mitchell-23028_abuser_davies-and-frawley-believe-that-while-th_2853214.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/48a/stephen-a-mitchell-23028_abuser_davies-and-frawley-believe-that-while-th_2853214.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/48a/stephen-a-mitchell-23028_abuser_davies-and-frawley-believe-that-while-th_2853214.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Davies and Frawley believe that while the child may be a passive victim of the original sexual abuse, the…” — Stephen A. Mitchell",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "CollectionPage",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/abuser/stephen-a-mitchell/#webpage",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/abuser/stephen-a-mitchell/",
            "name": "Abuser Quotes by Stephen A. Mitchell",
            "isPartOf": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website"
            },
            "mainEntity": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/abuser/stephen-a-mitchell/#itemlist"
            },
            "primaryImageOfPage": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/48a/stephen-a-mitchell-23028_abuser_davies-and-frawley-believe-that-while-th_2853214.jpg"
            },
            "description": "1 Abuser quotes by Stephen A. Mitchell. Plus more from Stephen A. Mitchell and more Abuser sayings from other authors.",
            "breadcrumb": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/abuser/stephen-a-mitchell/#breadcrumb"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "BreadcrumbList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/abuser/stephen-a-mitchell/#breadcrumb",
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "name": "Home",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "name": "Quotes",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 3,
                    "name": "Topics",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 4,
                    "name": "Abuser",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/abuser/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 5,
                    "name": "Stephen A. Mitchell",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/abuser/stephen-a-mitchell/"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "WebSite",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "publisher": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "Organization",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "logo": {
                "@type": "ImageObject",
                "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png",
                "width": 512,
                "height": 512
            }
        }
    ]
}
```