Quotes by Diane Mandt Langberg, Counseling Survivors of Sexual Abuse

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“To take such a complex creature, on who was meant for God and is destroyed by sin, and attempt to understand how the development of that creature can be affected by hideous trauma is to attempt the...”
— Diane Mandt Langberg, Counseling Survivors of Sexual Abuse
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“The experience of chronic abuse carries within it the gross mislabeling of things. Perpetrators are really "nice daddies." Victims are "evil and seductive" (at the age of three!). Nonprotecting par...”
— Diane Mandt Langberg, Counseling Survivors of Sexual Abuse
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“Too often the survivor is seen by [himself or] herself and others as "nuts," "crazy," or "weird." Unless her responses are understood within the context of trauma. A traumatic stress reaction consi...”
— Diane Mandt Langberg, Counseling Survivors of Sexual Abuse
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“One of the reasons a survivor finds it so difficult to see herself as a victim is that she has been blamed repeatedly for the abuse: "If you weren't such a whore, this wouldn't have to happen." Eac...”
— Diane Mandt Langberg, Counseling Survivors of Sexual Abuse
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