The Abused and the Abuser: Victim-Perpetrator Dynamics - Paperbackby Warwick Middleton (Editor), Adah Sachs (Editor), Martin J. Dorahy (Editor) Severe abuse often occurs in settings where the grouping, whether based around a family or a community organisation or institution, outwardly appears to be very respectable. The nature of attachment dynamics allied with threat, discrediting, the manipulation of the victim's dissociative defences, long term conditioning and the endless invoking of shame mean that sexual,