Quotes by Judith Lewis Herman, Father-Daughter Incest: With a New Afterword

Explore a curated collection of 12 quotes by Judith Lewis Herman, Father-Daughter Incest: With a New Afterword. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

Father-daughter incest is not only the type of incest most frequently reported but also represents a paradigm of female — Judith Lewis Herman, Father-Daughter Incest: With a New Afterword
It was Freud's ambition to discover the cause of hysteria, the archetypal female neurosis of his time. In his early inve — Judith Lewis Herman, Father-Daughter Incest: With a New Afterword
The horror of incest is not in the sexual act. but in the exploitation of children and the corruption of parental love. — Judith Lewis Herman, Father-Daughter Incest: With a New Afterword
The vast majority of incest begins years before the earliest conceivable age of consent. p4 — Judith Lewis Herman, Father-Daughter Incest: With a New Afterword
In some instances, even when crisis intervention has been intensive and appropriate, the mother and daughter are already — Judith Lewis Herman, Father-Daughter Incest: With a New Afterword
Implicit [in the psychiatric literature] is a set of normative assumptions regarding the father's prerogatives and the m — Judith Lewis Herman, Father-Daughter Incest: With a New Afterword
Since most sexual abuse begins well before puberty, preventive education, if it is to have any effect at all, should beg — Judith Lewis Herman, Father-Daughter Incest: With a New Afterword
Since most sexual abuse begins well before puberty, preventive education, if it is to have any effect at all, should beg — Judith Lewis Herman, Father-Daughter Incest: With a New Afterword
..[The] disclosure of the incest secret initiates a profound crisis for the family usually...the abuse has been going on — Judith Lewis Herman, Father-Daughter Incest: With a New Afterword
For many people, the shock of sexual abuse pales before the shock of this mother’s statement, “I wish the fuck I never h — Judith Lewis Herman, Father-Daughter Incest: With a New Afterword
Maternal absence, in one form or another, is always found in the background of the incest romance. Womens literature on — Judith Lewis Herman, Father-Daughter Incest: With a New Afterword
As long as fathers rule but do not nurture, as long as mothers nurture but do not rule, the conditions favoring the deve — Judith Lewis Herman, Father-Daughter Incest: With a New Afterword