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“A statue stands in a shaded placeAn angel girl with an upturned faceA name is written on a polished rockA broken heart that the world forgot”
“If you are really doing all this for your kids, then why are you so mean to them?”
“A terrible sadness threatened to overwhelm me as I wondered how two people capable of such love for each other had eventually felt so little for the child they had produced between them.”
“In a brain scan, relational painthat caused by isolation during punishmentcan look the same as physical abuse. Is alone in the corner the best place for your child?”
“Often, to keep the family together, the woman will accept repeated beatings and rapes, emotional battering and verbal degredation; she will be debased and ashamed but she will stick it out, or when...”
“Childhood trauma does not come in one single package.”
“The second factor helping to bring the dissociative disorders back into the mainstream was the Vietnam War. For sociological reasons originating outside psychology and psychiatry, the Vietnam War a...”
“Although psychoanalysts, including Freud, tended to acknowledge sexual trauma as tragic and harmful (Freud, 1905b, 1917), the subject seems to have been too awful to consider seriously in civilized...”
“Not to take one's own suffering seriously, to make light of it or even to laugh at it, is considered good manners in our culture.”
“A human being born into a cold, indifferent world will regard his situation as the only possible one.”
“Cruelty is the opposite of love, and its traumatic effect, far from being reduced, is actually reinforced if it is presented as a sign of love.”
“Years ago I had realized I was blaming myself for it. People and doctors would tell me it wasn't my fault, but I couldn't BELIEVE it! Then I was talking to my friend Kieran and he explained to me i...”
“Dissociation is the ultimate form of human response to chronic developmental stress, because patients with dissociative disorders report the highest frequency of childhood abuse and/or neglect amon...”
“The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.”
“The purpose of the false self is to defend against pain - not deal with reality”
“Untraumatized people have a natural instinct to make healthy decisions in the best interest of their true selves. They are only limited by their immaturity and the brokenness of their external world.”
“As a child abuse and neglect therapist I do battle daily with Christians enamored of the Old Testament phrase "Spare the rod and spoil the child." No matter how far I stretch my imagination, it doe...”
“Not only do skeptics such as Lanning choose to ignore eyewitness/victim accounts of ritual criminal activity, they apparently also choose to overlook the significant number of cases of ritual abuse...”
“It has become fashionable in the last several years for the media to minimize and even dissemble about the data which so strongly support the existence of ritual abuse. Amazingly, this has happened...”
“Frosh (2002) has suggested that therapeutic spaces provide children and adults with the rare opportunity to articulate experiences that are otherwise excluded from the dominant symbolic order. Howe...”
