Quotes by : Judith Lewis Herman

It was Freud's ambition to discover the cause of hysteria, the archetypal female neurosis of his time.....

In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote....

As long as fathers rule but do not nurture, as long as mothers nurture but do not rule, the conditions....

After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert,....

...repeated trauma in childhood forms and deforms the personality. The child trapped in an abusive environment....

...some patients resist the diagnosis of a post-traumatic disorder. They may feel stigmatized by any....

Traumatic events destroy the sustaining bonds between individual and community. Those who have survived....

Father-daughter incest is not only the type of incest most frequently reported but also represents a....

Since most sexual abuse begins well before puberty, preventive education, if it is to have any effect....

... in practice the standard for what constitutes rape is set not at the level of women's experience....