Abusive-parents Quote by Maggie Young

“The capacity for dissociation enables the young child to exercise their innate life-sustaining need for attachment in spite of the fact that principal attachment…

— Warwick Middleton

“Treating Abuse Today 3(4) pp. 26-33 TAT: I want to move back to an area that I'm not real comfortable asking you about, but…

— David L. Calof

“A person raised in a healthy family is equipped to live a confident and independent life; someone from an unhealthy family is filled with…

— Christina Enevoldsen

“Davenport stood in the middle of it with her arms out from her sides, her fingers spread as the creek churned around her. She…

— Yovanoff, Brenna

“Abuse grows from attitudes and values, not feelings. The roots are ownership, the trunk is entitlement, and the branches are control.”

— Lundy Bancroft

“In the 1890s, when Freud was in the dawn of his career, he was struck by how many of his female patients were revealing…

— Lundy Bancroft

“Many neglected and abused children grow up to be adults who are afraid to take risks of striking out on their own. Many will…

— Beverly Engel

“Having DID is, for many people, a very lonely thing. If this book reaches some people whose experiences resonate with mine and gives them…

— Cameron West

“But for a mother who was submissive to the degree my mother was, it was OK to kill girls. For a father like mine,…

— Souad

“In this climate of profoundly disrupted relationships the child faces a formidable developmental task. She must find a way to form primary attachments to…

— 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 little girl's dependency on her father made [his] abuse more insidious.”

— Joan Frances Casey