Why Childhood Abuse Victims Hate and Are Hated
Channel: Prof. Sam Vaknin
Date: 2022-09-07

Donald W. Winnicott, the famous paediatrician turned psychoanalyst, suggested that abused and traumatized children dare not hope for love. To protect themselves against disappointment, they hate others ostentatiously and desire to be hated in return. It is their way of testing the waters: can these people or institutions hate the child without resorting to maltreatment and rejection?

Epictetus: Men are disturbed not by events, but by the views which they take of them.

Albert Ellis, founder of REBT, precursors to CBT: experience causes no specific emotional reaction, the individual’s belief system produces the reaction.

Harry Stack Sullivan: people are products of their environment.

Boris Cyrulnik: trauma consists of the injury and the representation of the injury. Adult interpretations of events are the most damaging post-traumatic experience for children. Labels can be more damaging and damning than the experience.

Dorothy Rowe: when we are wrong, we self-blame and feel guilt, shame, helplessness. 

Georg Hegel: consciousness of self depends on presence of the Other

Jean Paul Sartre: perception of the world, including of others, changes when another person appears, we absorb their concept of the Other into our own.

Jacques Lacan: the unconscious is the discourse of the Other.

Charles Horton Cooley’s looking glass self (way we view ourselves based on how we imagine that other people view us).

Heinz Kohut: when child’s needs are not met, a fragmented self emerges, consisting of the narcissistic self and the grandiose self.

Eric Berne: lifelong child, adult, parental ego states.

Fritz Perls, founder of Gestalt therapy: sense of reality created through perception, the ways we view our experiences, not the events themselves.

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