Childhood Quote by Joanna Schaffhausen

“A psychological abuser will find a survivor’s emotional soft spots and exploit them for control and entertainment.”

— Shannon Thomas

A lot of people who end up being horrible criminals when they are adults had very abusive childhoods. You can have sympathy for that…

— Mary L. Trump

“Though, the type of abuse differs from each individual, all survivors of child abuse deal with a certain extent of trauma, consciously or unconsciously.”

— Patricia Dsouza

“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

“Unlike other forms of psychological disorders, the core issue in trauma is reality.”

— Bessel A. van der Kolk

“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

“Lies that cause survivors to deny or recent abuse memories and experiences ⸱ The alters who are designated to live in the "real world,”…

— Alison Miller

“...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

“Psychologically abusive families can never be without a targeted victim. Otherwise, they would have to look at their own individual issues and deal with…

— Shannon Thomas

“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

I think trauma gets a reductive treatment. We tend to think only violence or molestation or total abandonment qualify as "childhood trauma," but there…

— Melissa Febos

Childhood trauma is not necessarily a prophecy of doom, because some children are resilient or because later experiences help to restore mental health.

— Richard Bentall