Quotes by : Judith Lewis Herman

By developing a contaminated, stigmatized identity, the child victim takes the evil of the abuser into....

I have tried to communicate my ideas in a language that preserves connections, a language that is faithful....

Maternal absence, in one form or another, is always found in the background of the incest romance. Womens....

This book appears at a time when public discussion of the common atrocities of sexual and domestic life....

Underlying the attack on psychotherapy, I believe, is a recognition of the potential power of any relationship....

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

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

Combat and rape, the public and private forms of organized social violence, are primarily experiences....

For many people, the shock of sexual abuse pales before the shock of this mother’s statement, “I....

Implicit [in the psychiatric literature] is a set of normative assumptions regarding the father's prerogatives....