Abuse Quote by Judith Lewis Herman

“...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

“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

“As children, Other-blamers were likely exposed to developmental or attachment trauma, such as abusive, shaming, rejecting, or neglectful parenting. Parents who are substance abusers…

— Bandy X Lee

“Child abuse isn’t evil because it may produce neurotic adults but because it abuses children.”

— Alison Gopnik

“- Child is abused, perpetrator threatens to hurt mother. Child feels protective of mother. - Struggle to escape perp reinforces feelings of mutual protection.…

— Claire Fontaine

“When a child is subjected to verbal attacks, she sees it not as something being done to her but as something she has caused…

— Susan Forward

“...some adolescent survivors describe feeling special, powerful, and sometimes entitled. This is especially true of those for whom excessive attention was part of the…

— Christine A. Courtois

“psychological abusers damage others – not out of impaired judgement – but because they enjoy the control they gain from abusing people.”

— Shannon Thomas

“To develop strong ego boundaries, children need parents with strong boundaries. No shame-based parent has these. Toxic shame greatly damages our boundaries. Without strong…

— John Bradshaw

“the abuser's desire to abuse is not created by the child - it is there before the child appears”

— Carolyn Ainscough

“In a verbally abusive relationship, the partner learns to tolerate abuse without realizing it and to lose self-esteem without realizing it. She is blamed…

— Patricia Evans

“Abused children pick up from their past encounters to expect less of themselves and others. They are not commonly taught to trust and end…

— Patricia Dsouza