“These were children. Gerry was their priest. Who could disagree that these children were not justified in trusting their priest? Nobody!” — Mark M. Bello Copy Share Image
“Somatize: how the body defends itself against too much stress, manifesting psychological distress as physical symptoms in the stomach or nerves or… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“The local police was her brother Martin, the sheriff. Her father was the Assistant Chief of Police. The last thing she was… — Elizabeth Garden Copy Share Image
“This vacillation between assertion and denial in discussions about organised abuse can be understood as functional, in that it serves to contain… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“A chart review (Herman, 1986) found that 67 percent of twelve psychiatric outpatients with BPD had a history of abuse in childhood… — Sheri Van Dijk Copy Share Image
“Sexual abuse injects poisonous lies into its victims’ hearts and minds. “You’re not worthy” is one of them.” — Carolyn Byers Ruch Copy Share Image
“In this book we paint an unprecedented portrait of Britain’s first ‘false memory’ retraction and show that, like other ‘false memory’ cases… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
“He recognized the same frenzy of wild abandon that each of those adults shared while beating their children, as if the important… — Elizabeth Garden Copy Share Image
The greatest scandal of the century in American psychiatry ... is the growing mania among thousands of inept therapists, family counselors, and… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, Ruth decided that not punishing the wicked was unfair to the good.” — Elizabeth Garden Copy Share Image
“The childhood sexual abuse taught me that my value came from sex. In adulthood, I was driven to have sex since I… — Christina Enevoldsen Copy Share Image
“For every group, malevolence is always somewhere else. Maybe we understand at this point in history that it can occur at night… — Anna Salter Copy Share Image
“The truth is misrepresented, distorted, altered, tampered and changed in the mind of the child.” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“There are two types of memory frequently experienced by individuals who have had overwhelming trauma that has been suppressed psychologically or chemically.… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
“a quick turn around a corner and my planet becomes sand on the shore of a dying Universe” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
“Consider the following: More than 40 percent of women in the United States have likely been the victim of violence, including childhood… — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t some mysterious adverse personality trait that comprises of who I am, it unquestionably had a source - A cradle of… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“Abused children pick up from their past encounters to expect less of themselves and others. They are not commonly taught to trust… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“Sadly, psychiatric training still includes far too little on the very serious psychiatric sequelae of childhood trauma, especially CSA [child sexual abuse].… — Joan Coleman Copy Share Image
“SOCIETY AS COMPULSIVE AND ADDICTED Our society is highly addictive. We have sixty million sexual abuse victims. Possibly seventy-five million lives are… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“Why did I allow the abuse to continue? Even as a teenager? I didn’t. Something that had been plaguing me for years… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“In the 1980s, research on post traumatic stress disorder in Vietnam veterans was regarded as important, noble, and useful. When the same… — Patrick J. Carnes Copy Share Image
We have come far, but there is an ongoing battle to be fought. Many of the issues the Suffragettes were dealing with… — Sarah Gavron Copy Share Image
“Chief Johnson has full faith on us. Which means if I can complete this task and hunt down the murderer, not only… — Simi Sunny Copy Share Image
“Although the terminology implies scientific endorsement, false memory syndrome is not currently an accepted diagnostic label by the APA and is not… — Michelle Rae Hebl Copy Share Image
