Domestic violence Quote by Babette Rothschild

“Psychological trauma is an affliction of the powerless. At the moment of trauma, the victim is rendered helpless by overwhelming force. When the force…

— Judith Lewis Herman

“Traumas produce their disintegrating effects in proportion to their intensity, duration and repetition. (1909)”

— Pierre Janet

“There are two types of memory frequently experienced by individuals who have had overwhelming trauma that has been suppressed psychologically or chemically. The first…

— Cheryl Hersha

“Traumatic events destroy the sustaining bonds between individual and community. Those who have survived learn that their sense of self, of worth, of humanity,…

— Judith Lewis Herman

“Carla's description was typical of survivors of chronic childhood abuse. Almost always, they deny or minimize the abusive memories. They have to: it's too…

— David L. Calof

“When experiences or emotions become too overwhlming, the mind clevely encapsulates the material and stores it for safe-keeping. Many people respond this way in…

— Deborah Bray Haddock

“...repeated trauma in childhood forms and deforms the personality. The child trapped in an abusive environment is faced with formidable tasks of adaptation. She…

— Judith Lewis Herman

“Traumatic events challenge an individual's view of the world as a just, safe and predictable place. Traumas that are caused by human behavior. .…

— American Psychological Association

“PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions.”

— Susan Pease Banitt

“Traumatic events, by definition, overwhelm our ability to cope. When the mind becomes flooded with emotion, a circuit breaker is thrown that allows us…

— Susan Pease Banitt

“When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says.”

— Anna Funder

After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.

— Judith Lewis Herman