Report, if you have a problem with this page“ By developing a contaminated, stigmatized identity, the child victim takes the evil of the abuser into herself and thereby preserves her primary attachments to her parents. Because the inner sense of badness preserves a relationship, it is not readily given up even after the abuse has stopped; rather, it becomes a stable part of the child's personality structure. ”
Judith Lewis Herman
From : Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
