“INCEST, n. In many parts of the Bible Belt, the most popular form of dating” — Charles Bufe Copy Share Image
“No, not in a creepy way. I am anti-incest. It says so on my bumper sticker.” — Laurel Ulen Curtis Copy Share Image
“The shared secret and the shared denial are the most horrible aspects of incest.” — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“Don't you understand brother? I want to find a love...that will free me from this love...” — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
“He stared at me in complete puzzlement, “And while I’m committing incest for you is there anything else you’d like? Maybe a… — Candice Raquel Lee 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
“Millions of sane people would each be sexually attracted to their own parent or child if they were not related to them.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
“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
“After a while, marriage is a sibling relationship--marked by occasional, and rather regrettable, episodes of incest.” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“ I thought that I was the Warrior and Cersei was the Maid, but all the time she was the Stranger, hiding… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“he could still never accept the way each owner, each shadow, filed in only to exchange a dented, malfunctioning version of himself… — Thomas Pynchon 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
“The adult incest survivor is likely to become involved in sexual relationships with older or more powerful people…There is little room for… — E. Sue Blume Copy Share Image
“The thing is, he was the best kind of guy. Protective and strong, loving and easygoing, funny and honest. He was actually… — Laurel Ulen Curtis 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
“All emotions, even those that are suppressed and unexpressed, have physical effects. Unexpressed emotions tend to stay in the body like small… — Marilyn Van M. Derbur 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
“Just as verbally and physically abused children internalize blame, so do incest victims. However, in incest, the blame is compounded by the… — Susan Forward Copy Share Image
“Disclosures of childhood sexual abuse have frequently been discredited through the diagnosis of hysteria. In this view, women/female children were seen either… — Judith L. Alpert Copy Share Image
“A child who is being abused on an ongoing basis needs to be able to function despite the trauma that dominates his… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“By developing a contaminated, stigmatized identity, the child victim takes the evil of the abuser into herself and thereby preserves her primary… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“Each night I am nailed into place and forget who I am. Daddy? That's another kind of prison. It's not the prince… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“All right, Chris, you've given me a breather. I'm prepared for anything. And thank you for saying all of that, and for… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
“Our need to be "greater than" or "less than" has been a defense against toxic shame. A shameful act was committed upon… — Maureen Brady 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
“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
“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… — David L. Calof 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
“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
“Allegations of multi-perpetrator and multi-victim sexual abuse emerged to public awareness in the early 1980s contemporaneously with the denials of the accused… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“I had a bizarre rapport with this mirror and spent a lot of time gazing into the glass to see who was… — 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
“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
“He's at war with himself. Why doesn't he surrender to his feelings and stop fighting himself? He has hang-ups that I must… — Steven L. Sheppard Copy Share Image
“...Incest is rape by extortion. Thus the child's very childhood becomes a weapon used to control her.” — E. Sue Blume 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 million. [James Henderson, "Incest", in A. M. Freedman, H.I. Kaplan and B.J. Sadock, eds., Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, 2nd ed. 1975 p. 1532.]” quote by Judith Lewis Herman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/679/judith-lewis-herman-19218_child-rape_as-recently-as-1975-a-basic-american-psy_1650810.jpg)
![“A child who is being abused on an ongoing basis needs to be able to function despite the trauma that dominates his or her daily life. That becomes the job of at least one ANP [apparently normal part of the personality], whom the child creates to be unaware of the abuse and also of the…” quote by Alison Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f94/alison-miller-20257_amnesia_a-child-who-is-being-abused-on-an-ongoin_1146863.jpg)
