Judith Lewis Herman Quotes
Top 11 wise famous quotes and sayings by Judith Lewis Herman
Judith Lewis Herman Famous Quotes & Sayings
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People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory and fragmented manner.
Survivors feel unsafe in their bodies. Their emotions and their thinking feel out of control. They also feel unsafe in relation to other people.
Most of our informants [incest survivors] remembered their mothers as weak and powerless, finding their only dignity in martyrdom.
After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.
Because the child does not have the power to withhold consent, she does not have the power to grant it.
The horror of incest is not in the sexual act. but in the exploitation of children and the corruption of parental love. p4