If a mother respects both herself and her child from his very first day onward, she will never need to teach him respect for others.

If a mother respects both herself and her child from his very first day onward, she will never need to teach him respect for others.

Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder.

Problems cannot be solved with words, but only through experience.

The abused child goes on living within those who have survived such torture, a torture that ended with total repression. They live with the darkness of fear, oppression, and threats. When all its attempts to move the adult to heed its story have failed, it resorts to the language of symptoms to make itself heard. Enter addiction, psychosis, criminality.

Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history.

Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.