Raul Zighelboim

“In my own therapy, I have re-experienced some of the intense terror, followed by elation and relief that surrounded the event of my birth. I have also remembered the all-encompassing adoration I felt for my mother as a baby. Although I cannot easily re-capture such intense, early-life feelings in my relatively armoured adult body, the memories are not altogether irretrievable.”
― Robin Grille, Parenting for a Peaceful World

“antedating”
― Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

“The anxiety Winnicott refers to is the profoundly disturbing loss of an emerging sense of self. For example, Ian had an extreme stress reaction when another child stood too close to him in the lunch line at school. His body went into fight-or-flight mode and he shoved her. The teacher told him that he might be sent home if he did not calm down, but her words likely held no meaning for him. The intensity of his distress kept his mind firmly rooted in the here and now, unable to imagine a future time. At that moment, as Ian’s teacher was standing over him and speaking in a harsh, reprimanding voice, his basic feeling that I am Ian might very well have faded away. This loss of”
― Claudia M. Gold, The Power of Discord: Why the Ups and Downs of Relationships Are the Secret to Building Intimacy, Resilience, and Trust

“Brainwashing investigates a number of domains: religion, politics, advertising and the media, education, mental health, the military, the criminal justice system, domestic violence, and torture.”
― Kathleen Taylor, Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control