“I used to teach at an abused children's home. I told the kids, "You all have a manure pile of memories. Nothing… — Rebecca O'Donnell Copy Share Image
“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… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“As mandatory reporting laws and community awareness drove an increase its child protection investigations throughout the 1980s, some children began to disclose… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“If I was set an essay on Friday, I’d spend three hours on Saturday morning in the library. Was that normal? I… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“One of the reasons a survivor finds it so difficult to see herself as a victim is that she has been blamed… — Diane Langberg Copy Share Image
“Why do I take a blade and slash my arms? Why do I drink myself into a stupor? Why do I swallow… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“There were other strange signals and signs. Another day, suddenly felt an almost overwhelming urge to travel to Balitmore. I wanted to… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
“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… — David L. Calof Copy Share Image
“Or in my grandparents's case, the circling worked like this: as they paced around the deck the first time, Lefty and Desdemona… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“She was so upset about a blog that maybe a total of six people read yet had no compassion for her granddaughters… — Erin Merryn Copy Share Image
“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… — David L. Calof Copy Share Image
“You are the king no doubt, but in one respect, at least, I am your equal: the right to reply. I claim… — Robert Fagles Copy Share Image
“Both incest and the Holocaust have been subject to furious denial by perpetrators and other individuals and by highly organised groups such… — Janet Walker Copy Share Image
“It was after a Frontline television documentary screened in the US in 1995 that the Freyds' public profile as aggrieved parents provoked… — Judith Jones Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
“Ninety-six per cent of juvenile prostitutes are fugitives from abusive domestic situations; 66 per cent began working before they turned 16. (Prostitution… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
“Become your own soulmate. Then you'll always have someone watching your back, and you'll always have someone who loves you.” — Rebecca O'Donnell Copy Share Image
“The child who attends school does not remember the abuse that happens at home or via the family; those memories are held in… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“Weird? Absurd? That’s how it seemed to me. I had these forces, these compunctions, these alternative personalities inside me, driving me. It… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Mind Your Language in the Presence of Patriachs Q. When is rape not rape? A. When it is your father or stepfather.” — S. Caroline Taylor Copy Share Image
“Another preoccupation fed into this dynamic relationship between discovery and denial: does sexual abuse actually matter? Should it, in fact, be allowed?… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
“It was that culture of denial that allowed my abuse to take place to start with. Did you know that it wasn't… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“Psychological trauma is an affliction of the powerless. At the moment of trauma, the victim is rendered helpless by overwhelming force. When… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“Incest, rape and abuse is rampant everywhere, even in our churches, but society is silent. It is a silent epidemic. One in… — Diane Chamberlain Copy Share Image
“And thank you for saying all of that, and for loving me, for you haven't gone unloved, or unadmired, yourself.” — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
“The vast majority of incest begins years before the earliest conceivable age of consent. p4” — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
