“Cheryl was aided in her search by the Internet. Each time she remembered a name that seemed to be important in her… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
“Some alters are what Dr Ross describes in Multiple Personality Disorder as 'fragments'. which are 'relatively limited psychic states that express only… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“The horror of incest is not in the sexual act. but in the exploitation of children and the corruption of parental love.… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“The shared secret and the shared denial are the most horrible aspects of incest.” — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“from: The Portrayal of Child Sexual Assault in Introductory Psychology Textbooks - Elizabeth J. Letourneau, Tonya C. Lewis One of the central… — Michelle Rae Hebl Copy Share Image
“defense lawyers are key in promoting the idea that many convicted of child abuse are innocent” — Bethany L. Brand Copy Share Image
“It felt like I was living in two worlds. There was one world which was a daylight world and another dark world… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
“The FMSF achieved prominence partly as a response to increased possibilities for women to institute criminal or civil proceedings that relate to… — Sue Campbell Copy Share Image
“For all this talk about us being a nation at war with child abuse, and for all the media hype about witch-hunts… — Ross Cheit Copy Share Image
“(Talking about the movement to deny the prevalence and effects of adult sexual exploitation of children) So what does this movement consist… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
“In this climate of profoundly disrupted relationships the child faces a formidable developmental task. She must find a way to form primary… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“Though no longer living in silence, I continued to carry pain and memories.” — Erin Merryn Copy Share Image
“Several psychologists (L. Armstrong, 1994; Enns, McNeilly, Corkery, & Gilbert, 1995; Herman, 1992; McFarlane & van der Kolk, 1996; Pope & Brown,… — Rachel E. Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“interview from Ross E. Cheit about The Witch-Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children (Oxford University Press, February 2014).… — Ross Cheit Copy Share Image
“I would like to turn in my skin and change it for a new epidermis. It feels as if I will never… — Holly A. Smith Copy Share Image
“It is a myth that rape is an inevitable part of conflict . . . There is nothing inevitable about it. It… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
“Despite its popularity amongst critical criminologists, the empirical basis of the moral panic account of sexual abuse has been shown to be… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“Recently I interviewed a psychopath. This is always a humbling experience because it teaches over and over how much of human motivation… — Anna Salter Copy Share Image
“My goal in going public was not to put my extended family to shame, or to get back at Brian for abusing… — Erin Merryn Copy Share Image
“As recently as 1975, a basic American psychiatry textbook estimated that the frequency of all forms of incest as one case per… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“Victim-stancing - whereby the offender claims and believes that s/he is the real victim (one of the most prevalent sophistries in the… — Harvey L. Schwartz Copy Share Image
“An undergraduate researching the "witch hunt" cases asked for evidence that there had been more than one hundred cases, noting that the… — Ross Cheit Copy Share Image
“Richard Gardner (2004), the creator of ‘‘parental alienation syndrome’’, considers that the ‘‘parental alienation syndrome (PAS) is primarily a disorder of childhood.… — Jenny Ann Ryberg Copy Share Image
“The Kinsey staff asked questions of children, learning about sexuality in the family. And other psychologists, psychiatrists and paediatricians, including Benjamin Spock,… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
“The little girl's dependency on her father made [his] abuse more insidious.” — Joan Frances Casey Copy Share Image