PSYC 336 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Prefrontal Cortex, Dissociative Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 336
• Professor: Lizzie Sauber

Document Summary

Earn trust, love, and devotion and appears to care (when taken away victim do anything to re-achieve this reward) Begin demanding sex acts & punish refusal, hesitation, or complaints. Point to their prostitution as proof of love for pimp. Physically abuse them until complies (then show affection again) Assign shame, humiliation, and guilt that victim feels toward the way people outside of prostitution life view them (that"s us!!!) Emotional and physical abuse by their clients and traffickers as well as sexual torture. Victims use substances to cope with the trauma. Complications with self-esteem, suicidal tendencies, and intimacy issues. Shame, belief that others will not accept them (us!) Lack of trust in law enforcement, other adults. Victims are unaware of services to help them and do not see themselves as victims but, as guilty of crime. Victims become dependent on their traffickers and fear leading. Treated as runaways or domestic abuse victims, rather than traffickers.