What Is Addiction, Really? It

Till Now, Society Has Protected The Adult And Blamed The Victim. It Has Been Abetted In Its Blindness By Theories, Still In Keeping With The Pedagogical Principles Of Our Great- Grandparents, According To Which Children Are Viewed As Crafty Creatures, Dominated By Wicked Drives, Who Invent Stories And Attack Their Innocent Parents Or Desire Them Sexually. In Reality, Children Tend To Blame Themselves For Their Parents' Cruelty And To Absolve The Parents, Whom They Invariably Love, Of All Responsibility.

The Results Of Any Traumatic Experience, Such As Abuse, Can Only Be Resolved By Experiencing, Articulating, And Judging Every Facet Of The Original Experience Within A Process Of Careful Therapeutic Disclosure.

Child Abuse Is Still Sanctioned — Indeed, Held In High Regard — In Our Society As Long As It Is Defined As Child-rearing. It Is A Tragic Fact That Parents Beat Their Children In Order To Escape The Emotions From How They Were Treated By Their Own Parents.

I Sincerely Believe That We Not Only Have The Right To Know What Is Good And What Is Evil; We Have The Duty To Acquire That Knowledge If We Hope To Assume Responsibility For Our Own Lives And Those Of Our Children. Only By Knowing The Truth Can We Be Set Free.

The Truth About Childhood, As Many Of Us Have Had To Endure It, Is Inconceivable, Scandalous, Painful. Not Uncommonly, It Is Monstrous. Invariably, It Is Repressed. To Be Confronted With This Truth All At Once And To Try To Integrate It Into Our Consciousness, However Ardently We May Wish It, Is Clearly Impossible.