“...Incest is rape by extortion. Thus the child's very childhood becomes a weapon used to control her.” — E. Sue Blume Copy Share Image
“In general, the more dysfunctional the family the more inappropriate their response to disclosure. Never expect a sane response from an insane… — Renee Fredrickson 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 vast majority of incest begins years before the earliest conceivable age of consent. p4” — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“Coming to terms with incest is not easy. Learning to be a survivor, not a victim, gives new meaning to life” — Lynette Gould 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
Philosophically, incest asks a fundamental question of our shifting mores: not simply what is normal and what is deviant, but whether such… — Elizabeth Janeway 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
“3. Here ‘the attraction of sexual intercourse between parents and child or grandchild as incest’, ‘Oedipus complex’ and ‘abnormal attachment of persons… — Lecturer M k Bhutta Copy Share Image
It sounds not only disagreeable but also paradoxical, yet it must nevertheless be said that anyone who is to be really free… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Imagine the message that sent to my sister and me. A cousin violates us, confesses, and walks away with barely a slap… — Erin Merryn 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
“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
“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
“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
“When there is inconsistency in belief and action (such as being violated by someone who is supposed to love you) our mind… — Rosenna Bakari Copy Share Image
“Treating Abuse Today 3(4) pp. 26-33 While Pamela Freyd was speaking to us on the record about her organization, another development was… — David L. Calof Copy Share Image
“German is a much more precise language than English. Americans throw the word love around for everything: I love my wife! I… — Diana Mauer 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
“The survivor movements were also challenging the notion of a dysfunctional family as the cause and culture of abuse, rather than being… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
“Janna knew - Rikki knew — and I knew, too — that becoming Dr Cameron West wouldn't make me feel a damn… — Cameron West 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
“We must know something about malevolence, about how to recognize it, and about how not to make excuses for it. We must… — Anna Salter Copy Share Image
“Frosh (2002) has suggested that therapeutic spaces provide children and adults with the rare opportunity to articulate experiences that are otherwise excluded… — Michael Salter 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
“Along with the trust issues, one of the hardest parts to deal with is the feeling of not being believed or supported,… — Erin Merryn 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
“We must understand that those who experience abuse as children, and particularly those who experience incest, almost invariably suffer from a profound… — Cameron West 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
“But then, not long after, in another article, Loftus writes, "We live in a strange and precarious time that resembles at its… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
“Father-daughter incest is not only the type of incest most frequently reported but also represents a paradigm of female sexual victimization. The… — Judith Lewis Herman 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
“(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
“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
“Carla's description was typical of survivors of chronic childhood abuse. Almost always, they deny or minimize the abusive memories. They have to:… — David L. Calof Copy Share Image
“The odd sensation I had while cooking would often last through the meal, then dissolve as I climbed the stairs. I would… — Alice Jamieson 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
“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
“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
“When I was cooking I enjoyed a sense of being ‘out’ of myself. The action of dicing vegetables and warming oil made… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
