Childhood Quote by Herbert Marcuse

“That is the problem with repressed memory and dissociative identity disorder. Your mind represses certain traumas for reasons of pure survival. And then you…

— Suzie Burke

“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

“There is child abuse, and there are such things as repressed memories. But there are also such things as false memories and confabulations, and…

— Carl Sagan

“Sometimes we disfigure ourselves by what we think about ourselves rather than by what we do to ourselves. Some people have been disfigured emotionally…

— H. Norman Wright

“Repression isn’t the answer. I know that. It’s one of the things that punish the body for what’s closed up in the mind. It’s…

— Nora Roberts

“Some sense that to repress feelings of their childhood is to poison the very well-springs of life; they know that though repression may have…

— Alice Miller

“THE INTERCONNECTION OF MEMORY IMPRINTS THAT FORM COLLAGES OF SHAME As shaming experiences accrue and are defended against, the images created by those experiences…

— John Bradshaw

“Early relational trauma results from the fact that we are often given more to experience in this life than we can bear to experience…

— Donald Kalsched

Sometimes our childhood experiences are emotionally intense, which can create strong mental models. These experiences and our assumptions about them are then reinforced in…

— Elizabeth Thornton

“To understand the phenomenon of avoidance in TMS one must constantly bear in mind how radically the unconscious mind differs from its conscious counterpart.…

— John E. Sarno

“Disclosures of childhood sexual abuse have frequently been discredited through the diagnosis of hysteria. In this view, women/female children were seen either as culpable…

— Judith L. Alpert

“The greatest damage done by neglect, trauma or emotional loss is not the immediate pain they inflict but the long-term distortions they induce in…

— Gabor Maté