Abuse

We all respond to abuse, assault and violence in different ways. Trauma is the emotional response that occurs when these situations overwhelm us. This brochure presents some of the causes and effects of trauma.

Nous réagissons tous différemment aux blessures. Le traumatisme est une réaction émotionnelle déclenchée par une blessure que nous sommes incapables de gérer. Ce dépliant présente certaines des causes et certains des effets des traumatismes

Les cauchemars répétés, les blessures volontaires, les problèmes de toxicomanie, une constante dépression, les crises de panique, les difficultés interpersonnelles et les absences de souvenirs concernant les événements de l’enfance comptent parmi les nombreux effets des traumatismes psychologiques.

This brochure helps women connect experiences of recurring nightmares, intentional self-harm, substance use problems, ongoing depression, panic attacks, difficult relationships and gaps in childhood memories to possible incidents of early abuse.

Just as the prevalence of incest and child sexual abuse was a well-kept secret until recently, the phenomenon of multiple personality disorder (MPD) – recently re-labelled dissociative identity disorder [DID] – has been minimized. In her practice as a psychologist, Margo Rivera has found this to be no coincidence.

Confirming that the root of mo …

In recent years the subject of satanic ritual abuse (SRA) has incited widespread controversy focused primarily on whether or not such abuse actually occurs. Much like child sexual abuse, SRA was initially dismissed as an isolated or even imaginary phenomenon. Although there is increasing evidence that ritual abuse does take place, clinicians workin …

Despite the magnitude of the problem of child sexual abuse and the concomitant range of behavioural, emotional, and interpersonal problems in child victims, there is a dearth of services available to respond to this client population.  Interventions that do exist tend to be sparse and piecemeal in approach, with no systematic follow-up or evaluatio …

"Incest occurs in all kinds of families, from all cultures, classes and religions - always protected by the ideology of family sanctity. Sexually and physically abused by her grandmother and brother in a traditional, middle class, "good Jewish family" as a child, and abused again in her marriage, Lilian Green writes a gripping account of her recov …