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One can only remember what has been consciously experienced.

We can never do the right thing as long as we are out to please someone else.

Society chooses to disregard the mistreatment of children, judging it to be altogether normal because it is so commonplace.

They recount their earliest memories without any sympathy for the child they once were,

Courage can be just as infectious as fear.

What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.

Nobody is born evil.

We produce destructive people by the way we are treating them in childhood.

Disrespect is the weapon of the weak

All children are born to grow, to develop, to live, to love, and to articulate their needs and feelings for their self-protection.

The more we idealize the past and refuse to acknowledge our childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation.

Parents are indeed capable of routinely torturing their children without anyone interceding.

Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history.

You gotta keep that in check - you got to.

Tragic and painful state of being separated from his true self, to which doctors refer offhandedly as depression.

Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.

For the human soul is virtually indestructible, and its ability to rise from the ashes remains as long as the body draws breath.

Emotional access to the truth is the indispensable precondition of healing.

A human being born into a cold, indifferent world will regard his situation as the only possible one.

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.

Empathy grows as we learn.

Only the mourning for what one has missed at the crucial time can lead to real healing.

Problems cannot be solved with words, but only through experience ...

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden; what is forbidden is to write about it.

Today I should not be identified with any kind of regressive therapy.

If a mother respects both herself and her child from his very first day onward, she will never need to teach him respect for others.

That probably greatest of narcissistic wounds
not to have been loved just as one truly was
cannot heal without the work of mourning.

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.

An unacknowledged trauma is like a wound that never heals over and may start to bleed again at any time.

There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all.