Sexual Abuse Recalled Quotes

“The history of hysteria is a history of the relation between the colonizing father and the colonized devalued other.”
― Judith L. Alpert, Sexual Abuse Recalled: Treating Trauma in the Era of the Recovered Memory Debate

“Disclosures of childhood sexual abuse have frequently been discredited through the diagnosis of hysteria. In this view, women/female children were seen either as culpable seducers who were not really damaged by the sex abuse or as dramatic fantasizers projecting their own incestuous wishes onto the father. I will argue that this view pervades the false-memory movement and can be found, for example, in Gardner's work (1992).”
― Judith L. Alpert, Sexual Abuse Recalled: Treating Trauma in the Era of the Recovered Memory Debate