Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

by Pete Walker

Once again, this does not condone destructive expressions of anger which are, of course, counterproductive to trust and intimacy.

This occurs when the child is both abused for emoting and is, at the same time, abused by her caretaker’s toxic emotional expression.

Emotional abuse is also almost always also accompanied by emotional abandonment, which can most simply be described as a relentless lack of parental warmth and love. Sometimes