“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“The memories seem to come in layers. For example, the first memory might be of incest; then they remember robes and candles;… — Glenn L. Pace 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“The BFMSS [British False Memory Syndrome Society] The founder of the 'false memory' movement in Britain is an accused father. Two of… — Beatrix Campbell 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“ 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
“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
“...Incest is rape by extortion. Thus the child's very childhood becomes a weapon used to control her.” — E. Sue Blume 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
