Sentences with phrase «mind of a sexual abuse»

Inside the mind of a sexual abuse victim is all sorts of chaos, shame and worry that the secret will define them the rest of their lives.

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Although millions of heterosexual persons in Africa have AIDS, in the West there is in the public mind a strong suspicion that AIDS is a punishment on persons for promiscuous sexual behavior or for drug abuse.

Unless they have been sexually abused, they haven» yet learned to be afraid about anything sexual and their cognitive development hasn't got to the point of being able to participate in mind games yet.

Tough presents striking research from neuroendocrinology and other fields revealing that childhood psychological traumas — from physical and sexual abuse to physical and emotional neglect, divorce, parental incarceration, and addiction, things found more often (though by no means exclusively) in impoverished families — overwhelm developing bodies» and minds» ability to manage the stress of events, resulting in «all kinds of serious and long - lasting negative effects, physical, psychological, and neurological.»

To my mind, similar thinking should be applied to the care of infants and toddlers - physical and sexual abuse of children are devastating and appallingly common, and predominantly perpetrated by men.

But the study was part of a six - year probe by Harvard psychologist Richard McNally and his colleagues into the minds of apparently sane people who believe they have memories of long - repressed events, including sexual abuse, alien abduction, and past lives.

But the study is part of a six - year probe by Harvard psychologist Richard McNally and his colleagues into the minds of apparently sane people who believe they have memories of long - repressed events, including sexual abuse, alien abduction, and past lives.

It's not an easy sell: Not only is King's book structured in such a way to make it extremely difficult to adapt — much of it takes place inside the mind of the main character, Jessie (Carla Gugino), as she lies handcuffed to a bed, alone, after her husband dies mid-kinky sex — but it deals with some very challenging themes of sexual abuse and the silencing of women.

For months, sexual abuse has been at the forefront of the nation's minds, and as ground zero, Hollywood has become the somewhat unlikely face for a concerted push to change the very fabric of how society (mal) functions.

[37] A key feature of the Director's conduct in this case is that she and many of her agents approached the case in front of them with a closed mind, having concluded at a very early stage, before the children were interviewed, that there was no merit to the sexual abuse allegations and that J.P. had fabricated them and had coached her children to make their disclosures.

Mothers in Mind ® (MIM) is a mother and child program specifically designed to meet the parenting needs of mothers who have experienced family violence, childhood abuse, neglect or sexual assault, and have children under the age of four.

Holistic psychotherapy, sex therapy, and integration of the body and mind, issues around sex and sexual functioning, trauma, abuse, and spiritual emergence for both the individual and couples in the San Francisco Bay area.