The study of psychological trauma has repeatedly led into…

“The ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this…

— Judith Lewis Herman

“Psychological trauma is an affliction of the powerless. At the moment of trauma, the victim is rendered helpless by overwhelming force. When the force…

— Judith Lewis Herman

“Traumatic events challenge an individual's view of the world as a just, safe and predictable place. Traumas that are caused by human behavior. .…

— American Psychological Association

“Trauma is any stressor that occurs in a sudden and forceful way and is experienced as overwhelming.”

— Stephanie S. Covington

Christianity has a built-in defense system: anything that questions a belief, no matter how logical the argument is, is the work of Satan by…

— Bill Hicks

“But I don’t think we have made matters of science into questions of belief out of sheer stupidity. Belief usually has an emotional component;…

— Anonymous

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

— Judith Lewis Herman

The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this…

— Judith Lewis Herman

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.

— Judith Lewis Herman

“...repeated trauma in childhood forms and deforms the personality. The child trapped in an abusive environment is faced with formidable tasks of adaptation. She…

— Judith Lewis Herman

“Traumatic events destroy the sustaining bonds between individual and community. Those who have survived learn that their sense of self, of worth, of humanity,…

— Judith Lewis Herman

“In situations of captivity the perpetrator becomes the most powerful person in the life of the victim, and the psychology of the victim is…

— Judith Lewis Herman

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

— Judith Lewis Herman

“Combat and rape, the public and private forms of organized social violence, are primarily experiences of adolescent and early adult life. The United States…

— Judith Lewis Herman

“You can see in the table of contents how this will play out, but we’re going to frame our discussion around four fundamental questions:…

— Rankin Wilbourne