Betrayal Trauma Quotes

“When the goal of therapy is reintegration into society, the assumption is that it is the individual who must adapt, and the society that is healthy.”
― Jennifer J. Freyd, Betrayal Trauma: The Logic of Forgetting Childhood Abuse

“Behavioral memories of trauma remain quite accurate and true to the events that stimulated them.”
― Jennifer J. Freyd, Betrayal Trauma: The Logic of Forgetting Childhood Abuse

“Shareability theory suggests that memory for never-discussed events is likely to be qualitatively different from memory for events that have been discussed. This difference will be greater when the sensory, continuous memories for the event were not recoded internally in anticipation of verbal sharing. Thus, if an event is experienced but never recoded into shareable formats, it is more likely to be stored in codes that are continuous, sensory, and dynamic.”
― Jennifer J. Freyd, Betrayal Trauma: The Logic of Forgetting Childhood Abuse

“Shared information becomes more categorical than it is when originally presented in the individual mind. It occurs because of the greatly reduced channels of information flow between two or more separate minds, compared to the representational capacities of the individual mind, combined with the string pressure to minimize information loss.”
― Jennifer J. Freyd, Betrayal Trauma: The Logic of Forgetting Childhood Abuse