“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
“It is my personal opinion that all survivors can go from victim to victor and live more than a survivor.” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“Childhood abuse is the misuse of power and control which leads to wrong.” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“I can just conceive of the pit of despair, the notion of being powerless and the essence of existence through it entirely” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“One by one, they pushed ahead to get a swipe at Ruth, her only ally the narrow confines of the bus aisle.” — Elizabeth Garden Copy Share Image
“The history of hysteria is a history of the relation between the colonizing father and the colonized devalued other.” — Judith L. Alpert Copy Share Image
“We require to get out of our own built up Cocoons, these need to be worn, softened and freed through.” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
If there is anything that has broken the church's relationship with families, it is the global sexual abuse scandal. — Anthea Butler 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
“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 sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty… — James T. Walsh Copy Share Image
“As I started my personal voyage to unpack the childhood that I repressed for so long, everything unexpectedly made sense as to… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“Games where someone wants to touch your body where your swimsuit covers or they ask you to touch their body where their… — Carolyn Byers Ruch Copy Share Image
It feels as if childhood sexual abuse or domestic abuse of women in the home has increased but actually if you ask… — Gloria Steinem 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
“Abused children realize that they cannot rely on their emotions since their innocent love and trust are already crushed and betrayed. They… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“You cannot make yourself have a flashback, nor will you have one unless you are emotionally ready to remember something. Once remembered,… — Beverly Engel 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
“I know what you're thinking. ‘How the hell does this broke ass piece of trailer trash know words like caveat,’ right? Well… — Isobel Irons Copy Share Image
“Some people, who never engaged in any research about DID, claim that there is no connection between child abuse and DID. Then… — Patrick Suraci Copy Share Image
“In the weeds of childhood sexual abuse, we are the sturdy flowers that kept reaching for a slip of sunshine and a… — Jeanne McElvaney Copy Share Image
“Living in a family where all the interactions are superficial and shallow can cause a wound that may limit capacity for meaningful… — Linda Bloom Copy Share Image
“The themes that exercised the minds of survivor movements and their allies within the health and welfare professions generated a political project:… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
“I was just four when a hired teenage field hand attempted to molest me. Miraculously, I got away, and I told my… — Carolyn Byers Ruch Copy Share Image
“We propose that use of the term “false memory” to describe errors in memory for details directly contributes to removing the social… — Jennifer J. Freyd Copy Share Image
“Survivors are damaged to different degrees by their experiences. This does not depend on what happened physically. A Survivor who has been… — Carolyn Ainscough 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
“Some alters are what Dr Ross describes in Multiple Personality Disorder as 'fragments', which are 'relatively limited psychic states that express only… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Jill had described this kind of religious upbringing as a form of mental abuse, and I returned to the point, as follows:… — Richard Dawkins 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
“Chapter 4,‘Organised abuse and the pleasures of disbelief’, uses Zizek’s (1991) insights into cite political role of enjoyment to analyse the hyperbole… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“The truth is misrepresented, distorted, altered, tampered and changed in the mind of the child.” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
Being a mother of two little girls, it was an absolute nightmare for me to teach them about sexual abuse. — Deepa Kumar Copy Share Image
“I believe we all heal differently, it is a process, and many like me are here to help you as you heal,… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“When you get to Hell, I'll be sitting in the hot tub waiting." Cate Harlow, PI” — Kristen Houghton Copy Share Image
“You know there are no Jews working for me. Not one. I won’t hire them.' He sounded proud of the ugly fact.” — Elizabeth Garden Copy Share Image
“...in my wildest, most indulgent dreams, we only hear about sexual assault & abuse in history books.” — Lisa Factora-Borchers 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
“This book is dedicated to all who have been affected by sexual violence.” — Robert Uttaro Copy Share Image
