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Judith Herman
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“,,The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness (...) Atrocities, however, refuse to be buried".
,,Filk wisdom is filled with ghosts who refuse to rest in their graves until their stories are told".
,,The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma".
,,When the truth is finally recognized, survivors can begin their recovery".”
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,,Filk wisdom is filled with ghosts who refuse to rest in their graves until their stories are told".
,,The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma".
,,When the truth is finally recognized, survivors can begin their recovery".”
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“Patients at times insist upon plunging into graphic, detailed descriptions of their traumatic experiences, in the belief that simply pouring out the story will solve all their problems. At the root of this belief is the fantasy of a violent cathartic cure which will get rid of the trauma once and for all. The patient may imagine a kind of sadomasochistic orgy, in which she will scream, cry, vomit, bleed, die, and be reborn cleansed of the trauma. The therapist’s role in this reenactment comes uncomfortably close to that of the perpetrator, for she is invited to rescue the patient by inflicting pain. The patient’s desire for this kind of quick and magical cure is fueled by images of early, cathartic treatments of traumatic symptoms which by now pervade popular culture, as well as by the much old religious metaphor of exorcism.”
― Trauma and Recovery Paperback 7 July 2015 BY
― Trauma and Recovery Paperback 7 July 2015 BY
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