Posted: Feb 26, 2014 7:01 pm
Sendraks wrote:Charlou wrote:I find the "it never did me any harm" justification interesting ... Recently came across an article about initiation rituals, the upshot of which suggested that the psychology of the victim of initiation often defaulted to acceptance of what happened in order to make sense of it, and to normalise it .. as a form of ego preservation. I'll try and find it.
That's be helpful, although I suspect it will consistent with the experience of many who go through therapy that they have normalised abusive behaviour.
A child really has little or no concept of "normal" and what occurs within the bounds of their family is normalised by them. It is only when they reach an age that they have experience about how other children were treated by their parents that they can put "normal" behaviour into some sort of context.
Probably just a variant of Stockholm Syndrome.