“When a stranger on the street makes a sexual comment, he is making a private assessment of me public. And though I’ve… — Leora Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
“An undergraduate researching the "witch hunt" cases asked for evidence that there had been more than one hundred cases, noting that the… — Ross Cheit 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
“I think I just said it, but I think it’s worth repeating. They gave me hope that there is good in the… — Robert Uttaro Copy Share Image
“As a child I had been taken to see Dr Bradshaw on countless occasions; it was in his surgery that Billy had… — Alice Jamieson 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
“Society gives the image of sexual violators as weird, ugly, anti-social, alcoholics. Society gives the impression that violators kidnap children are out… — Rosenna Bakari Copy Share Image
“Treating Abuse Today 3(4) pp. 26-33 The national discussion regarding the veridical truth of memories of childhood abuse will have a beneficial… — David L. Calof Copy Share Image
“While some accused and convicted child molesters have inappropriately influenced the media, the public, and many in the clinical and legal professions… — Charles L. Whitfield 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
“So here is what I see when we reclaim the church ladies: a woman loved and free is beautiful. She is laughing… — Sarah Bessey 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
“The people who support and defend those accused of child sexual abuse indiscriminately, those who join organizations dedicated to defending people who… — Anna Salter Copy Share Image
“Children in misogynistic households experience tremendous rage, tension, and frustration. When they see their mothers victimized either psychologically or physically, they become… — Susan Forward Copy Share Image
“There was nothing you could be sure about, it was all lies, and it was all done to mess with minds because… — Laurie Matthew 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
“I remembered during puberty, through the anorexic mists of intermittent menstrual cycles, that man, my father, lifting Shirley's nightdress over her head… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“In her book claiming that allegations of ritualistic abuse are mostly confabulations, La Fontaine’s (1998) comparison of social workers to ‘nazis’ shows… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“A plain, brown paper-wrapped package came in the mail recently. Upon opening it, I saw that it was a patchwork quilt about… — Charles L. Bailey Jr Copy Share Image
“Violators cannot live with the truth: survivors cannot live without it. There are those who still, once again, are poised to invalidate… — Chrystine Oksana 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
“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 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
“Women involved in out-patient treatment for substance abuse were interviewed to examine their recollections of childhood sexual abuse. Overall, 54% of the… — Elizabeth F. Loftus Copy Share Image
“Well before she became famous — or infamous, depending on where you cast your vote — Loftus's findings on memory distortion were… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
“Qualitative and quantitative research with adults and children reporting ritual abuse has found that it occurs alongside other forms of organised abuse,… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“But nothing in my previous work had prepared me for the experience of reinvestigating Cleveland. It is worth — given the passage… — Sue Richardson Copy Share Image
“[Refers to 121 children taken into care in Cleveland due to suspected abuse (1987) and later returned to their parents] Sue Richardson,… — Heather Bacon Copy Share Image
“Did I imagine the castle, the dungeon, the ritual orgies and violations? Did Lucy, Billy, Samuel, Eliza, Shirley and Kato make it… — Alice Jamieson 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
“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
“Like Jocelyn, Survivors often think: * That’s just the way I am * I’m not lovable, that’s why I keep having disastrous… — Carolyn Ainscough Copy Share Image
“It is necessary to make this point in answer to the 'iatrogenic' theory that the unveiling of repressed memories in MPD sufferers,… — Alice Jamieson 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
“JONES IS BOTH symptom and cause of how knee-jerk, florid conspiracism has become rampant and normalized in America, a fixture of the… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
“Two other highly vocal FMSF Advisory Board members are Dr Elizabeth Loftus and Professor Richard Ofshe. Loftus is a respected academic psychologist… — Valerie Sinason Copy Share Image
“I am disgusted that I was often taken into their bed and told to do things to both of them. The things… — Carolyn Ainscough Copy Share Image
“The return of the voices would end in a migraine that made my whole body throb. I could do nothing except lie… — Alice Jamieson 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
“By the nineteenth century, society had given up burning witches. Yet the sexual exploitation of children continued. In late-nineteenth-century Britain, for example,… — Patrick J. Carnes Copy Share Image
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![“[Refers to 121 children taken into care in Cleveland due to suspected abuse (1987) and later returned to their parents] Sue Richardson, the child abuse consultant at the heart of the crisis, watched as cases began to unravel: “All the focus started to fall on the medical findings; other supportive…” quote by Heather Bacon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/54c/heather-bacon-167492_abuse_refers-to-121-children-taken-into-care-i_2551343.jpg)
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