Children who survive extremely adverse childhoods have learned [...] 'strategic detachment.' This is not the withdrawal from reality that leads to psychological disturbance but an intuitively calibrated disengagement from noxious aspects of their family life... #NathanielBranden

Children who survive extremely adverse childhoods have learned [...] 'strategic detachment.' This is not the withdrawal from reality that leads to psychological disturbance, but an intuitively calibrated disengagement from noxious aspects of their family life... #NathanielBranden

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