“The absence of an empathetic listener, or more radically, the absence of an addressable other, an other who can hear the anguish of one's memories and thus affirm and recognize their realness, annihilates the story” — Dori Laub Copy Share Image
“The absence of an empathetic listener, or more radically, the absence of an addressable other, an other who can hear the anguish of one's… — Dori Laub Copy Share Image
“Not knowing trauma or experiencing or remembering it in a dissociative way is not a passive shutdown of perception or of memory. Not knowing… — Dori Laub Copy Share Image
“The traumatic event, although real, took place outside the parameters of “normal” reality, such as causality, sequence, place, and time. The trauma is thus… — Dori Laub Copy Share Image
