Human System Quotes by Judith Lewis Herman

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• It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He…
• After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at…
• The legal system is designed to protect men from the superior power of the state but not to protect women or children…
• Many abused children cling to the hope that growing up will bring escape and freedom. But the personality formed in an environment…
• The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter…
• In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the…
• ... in practice the standard for what constitutes rape is set not at the level of women's experience of violation but just…
• Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the…
• The guarantee of safety in a battering relationship can never be based upon a promise from the perpetrator, no matter how heartfelt.…
• The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological…

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