Abusers Quote by Connie Zweig

“The experience of chronic abuse carries within it the gross mislabeling of things. Perpetrators are really "nice daddies." Victims are "evil and seductive" (at…

— Diane Langberg

Predominantly, crimes and horrible, horrible, horrible judgment don't have to do with sociopaths. It has to do with people who are not capable of…

— Kristin Lehman

Perhaps it had nothing to do with sin and everything to do with sociopathy, that most incurable of human disorders because all so afflicted…

— Joseph Wambaugh

“How do we find words for describing levels of betrayal and emotional, physical, sexual and spiritual torture that fragment and destroy a child or…

— Valerie Sinason

“Most people do exactly the opposite. Without realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, they avoid learning anything about their history.…

— Alice Miller

I think people throw the term 'sociopath' around a lot without knowing what it means - but people who don't understand that what they're…

— Max Joseph

The time has also come to recognize the painful truth that traditional Judeo-Christian moral values of pain and pleasure in human relationships have contributed…

— James W. Prescott

“All humans at some time experience injustice, assault, disqualification, invasion and betrayal. No person is completely shielded. We need not trace our family trees…

— Merle A. Fossum

“Because the victims are “only children,” their distress is trivialized. But in twenty years’ time these children will be adult who will feel compelled…

— Alice MIller, The Drama of the gifted child

One of our biggest spiritual lessons is to understand that everyone is doing the best they can at any given moment. People can only…

— Nate

“In the macrosocial phenomenon we shall later call “pathocracy”, a certain hereditary anomaly isolated as “essential psychopathy” is catalytically and causatively essential for the…

— Andrzej Lobaczewski

I think of the people who commit these acts as children. They're in their 20s, but like certain children, they have been told only…

— Michael Cunningham