Abused and the Abuser
Severe abuse often occurs in settings where the grouping, whether based around a family or a community organisation or institution, outwardly appears to be very respectable. The nature of attachment dynamics allied with threat, discrediting, the manipulation of the victim''s dissociative defences, long-term conditioning and the endless invoking of shame mean that sexual, physical and emotional abu...
Severe abuse often occurs in settings where the grouping, whether based around a family or a community organisation or institution, outwardly appears to be very respectable. The nature of attachment dynamics allied with threat, discrediting, the manipulation of the victim''s dissociative defences, long-term conditioning and the endless invoking of shame mean that sexual, physical and emotional abu...