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A stone thrown into the water creates circles on the surface; these last for a few minutes: the circles of childhood abuse may last for a lifetime. The calamitous consequences of such abuse may not be immediately visible or easy to detect; to adapt a meteorological explanation of how natural disasters may start: ‘you cut a rose and release a tornado’.2
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© 2008 Einar A. Helander
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Helander, E.A. (2008). You Cut a Rose and Release a Tornado. In: Children and Violence. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230584303_1
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