Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.
The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.
'400 Blows' was so much like my own childhood, it really stunned me.
Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
The songs from your childhood, when you hear them you get chills all over.
It is now recognised that dissociation is a way of forgetting, for a time. The mind siphons off the bad memories into a separate part, and reclaiming those hidden-away memories us a complex process. So, when the memories resurface it does not feel as...
A child is asleep. Her private life unwinds inside skin and skull; only as she sheds childhood, first one decade and then another, can she locate the actual, historical stream, see the setting of her dreaming private life—the nation, the city, the ...
As we embrace the mystery of love, we see that it contains not an absence of error, but the presence of grace. It contains not the absence of anger or pain, but the presence of forgiveness and healing. Not the absence of disharmony or confusion, but ...
The themes that exercised the minds of survivor movements and their allies within the health and welfare professions generated a political project: how to revolutionise medical and judicial approaches to injured adults and children, how to raise awar...
The asylum, and later the national health service, warehoused thousands of patients made mad by the intrusions of a sexual predator. But these institutions had been dominated by the discredited Freudian fantasy that sexual abuse doesn’t happen - th...
Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioral sequence, and we know he is physically capable of performing the act but does not do so, then it is reasonable to assume that it is motivation which is lacking...
I have sometimes said to a client: “If you are so in touch with your feelings from your abusive childhood, then you should know what abuse feels like. You should be able to remember how miserable it was to be cut down to nothing, to be put in fear,...
the late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood ...
...after all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood?
Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.
My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister and me.
In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.
But the memories that hang heaviest are the easiest to recall.
Touch magic. Pass it on.
