Her childhood wounds are manifested in everything from her eating habits to her paranoia.

Leivick's writing also incorporated his deep childhood wounds from his abusive father and unpleasant experiences with Orthodox Judaism, as well as his years of imprisonment.

Ms. Gaitskill's grim first novel concerns an obese young woman paralyzed by childhood wounds and an elegant journalist who expresses herself in sadistic sexual relationships.

For one of the tasks of marriage is to heal childhood wounds and free each other from the fear of abandonment.

He might think so, but she suspected some of those childhood wounds were the reason he'd taken so much guff from Witt over the years.

Yet Francois' carefully achieved rigor falls apart when an older brother happens to reopen childhood wounds.

There was no couch in the office, no notepad or tape recorder, no inquiry into childhood wounds or worries.

Facing codependence is the first big step, but how can we begin to heal these childhood wounds and mature into functional adults?

Still, Ms. Wullschlager's point is not simply that art was a result of childhood wounds.

His childhood wounds never quite hardened into scabs, and their freshness remained a ready source of inspiration.