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Dissociation appears to be... the internal mechanism by which terrorized people are silenced.


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After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.

After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.



The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.

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Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the survivor thus persists even after she is free.

Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the survivor thus persists even after she is free.



The study of psychological trauma has repeatedly led into realms of the unthinkable and foundered on fundamental questions of belief.

The study of psychological trauma has repeatedly led into realms of the unthinkable and foundered on fundamental questions of belief.




People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory and fragmented manner.

People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory and fragmented manner.





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