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The capacity for dissociation enables the young child to exercise their innate life-sustaining need for attachment in spite of the fact that principal attachment figures are also principal abusers.

Warwick Middleton

The capacity for dissociation enables the young child to exercise their innate life-sustaining need for attachment in spite of the fact that principal attachment figures are also principal abusers.

Tags: abuse survivors, abusive parents, attachment, child abuse, child abuse survivors, dissociation, dissociative disorder, grooming, psychological defense, trauma bonding

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