Denial Quote by Mary Dimmock

““How do I validate him in the face of such profound personal loss and the outrageous denial by the medical community?””

Mary Dimmock

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A mistake doesnt make you a fool, but denying it surely makes you one.

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But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us.

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“Research on organised abuse emphasises the diversity of organised abuse cases, and the ways in which serious forms of child maltreatment cluster in the lives of children subject to organised victimisation (eg Bibby 1996b, Itziti 1997, Kelly and Regan 2000). Most attempts to examine organised abuse have been undertaken by therapists and social workers who have focused primarily on the…

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