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“The adult incest survivor is likely to become involved in sexual relationships with older or more powerful people…There is little room for intimacy and much opportunity for abuse and sacrifice…The survivor may continue to be ‘child’, rather than an equal.”

IncestFather FigureChild Sexual Abuse SurvivorChild Abuse SurvivorSugar DaddyChild Sexual Abuse SurvivorsPower Imbalance
Book:Secret Survivors: Uncovering Incest and Its Aftereffects in Women
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“On the other hand, she happily kept him informed about plans she had with other people, providing a steady flow of information about excursions that were about to happen, details of dates or parties that were always this close to coming together. As long as he listened, without complaint, to an endless description of activities that were supposed to happen without him, there was a 30 percent chance, at least, that Anna would change her mind at the last minute, claim to be unable to handle the unbearable burden of whatever her social plans were supposed to be, and decide to hang out with him instead. She'd arrive at his house and collapse in exaggerated relief: "I am so glad we're doing this, I was so not in the mood for another party at Maria's." As though they were both equally at the mercy of circumstance, similarly oblivious to the power dynamic that governed their "friendship.”

RelationshipsFriendshipCarelessCruelPower DynamicsKristen RoupenianYou Know You Want ThisThoughtlessUnequal AffectionsPower Imbalance
Book:You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories
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“My sister only has one side of the story but she is sure that she knows the whole story because that is how the dysfunctional system works. We don’t question everyone or even consider that there may be another side to the story but instead automatically believe the one who has the most power in the relationship.”

Dysfunctional FamilyDysfunctional FamiliesAbusive ParentsDysfunctional RelationshipAbusive ParentPower ImbalanceDrama Triangle
Author:Darlene Ouimet
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“Many doctors (and medical students) display uncertainty about whether or not CFS/ME is real…Patients with CFS/ME often experience suspicion by health professionals…The (often unintentional) marginalization of many CFS/ME patients represents a failure in medical professionalism, one that may lead to further ethical and practical consequences both for progressive research into CFS/ME and for ethical care... With one exception, doctors attending the seminar were either defensive or silent. In their eyes, the ME patients present were conforming to stereotype (angry, unscientific, unreasonable) and therefore they – the doctors – would not engage with them. Paradoxically, these doctors were themselves conforming to another stereotype, as described by the speaker: ‘Knowledge-formation is also influenced by social and cultural factors. Such encounters have an inherent power differential; there is significant potential…to be unjust from an epistemic point of view.”

CfsChronic Fatigue SyndromeMyalgic EncephalomyelitisMe CfsMarginalizationInvisible Illness StigmaPower ImbalanceIatrogenicUnethical TreatmentPower Differential
Author:Charotte Blease
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