“It was difficult to find information because Post Traumatic Stress Disorder was called shell shock during W.W.II, and when Vietnam Vets were… — Sara Niles Copy Share Image
“TRAUMA STEALS YOUR VOICE People get so tired of asking you what's wrong and you've run out of nothings to tell them.… — nikitta gill Copy Share Image
“It is indeed the truth of the traumatic experience that forms the center of its psychopathology; it is not a pathology of… — Cathy Caruth Copy Share Image
“One of the paradoxical and transformative aspects of implicit traumatic memory is that once it is accessed in a resourced way (through… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
“Always remember, if you have been diagnosed with PTSD, it is not a sign of weakness; rather, it is proof of your… — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
“Blame is a Defense Against Powerlessness Betrayal trauma changes you. You have endured a life-altering shock, and are likely living with PTSD… — Sandra Lee Dennis Copy Share Image
“Often it isn’t the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
“Treating Abuse Today (Tat), 3(4), pp. 26-33 Freyd: I see what you're saying but people in psychology don't have a uniform agreement… — David L. Calof Copy Share Image
“Dissociative Identity Disorder is the most extreme form of PTSD and is the result of the child's desperate attempt to survive and… — Lynette S. Danylchuk Copy Share Image
“Traumatic events, by definition, overwhelm our ability to cope. When the mind becomes flooded with emotion, a circuit breaker is thrown that… — Susan Pease Banitt Copy Share Image
“In response to threat and injury, animals, including humans, execute biologically based, non-conscious action patterns that prepare them to meet the threat… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
“PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions.” — Susan Pease Banitt Copy Share Image
“...repeated trauma in childhood forms and deforms the personality. The child trapped in an abusive environment is faced with formidable tasks of… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“Unlike simple stress, trauma changes your view of your life and yourself. It shatters your most basic assumptions about yourself and your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In order to believe clients' accounts of trauma, you need to suspend any pre-conceived notions that you have about what is possible… — Aphrodite Matsakis Copy Share Image
“So, what role does memory play in the understanding and treatment of trauma? There is a form of implicit memory that is… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
“Dissociation is the common response of children to repetitive, overwhelming trauma and holds the untenable knowledge out of awareness. The losses and… — Judith Spencer Copy Share Image
“The scientific study of suffering inevitably raises questions of causation, and with these, issues of blame and responsibility. Historically, doctors have highlighted… — Bessel A. van der Kolk Copy Share Image
“Trauma is any stressor that occurs in a sudden and forceful way and is experienced as overwhelming.” — Stephanie S. Covington Copy Share Image
“Traumas produce their disintegrating effects in proportion to their intensity, duration and repetition. (1909)” — Pierre Janet Copy Share Image
“Early relational trauma results from the fact that we are often given more to experience in this life than we can bear… — Donald Kalsched Copy Share Image
“I have met many, many severely distressed people whose daily lives are filled with the agony of both remembered and unremembered trauma,… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“The ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“She's terrified that all these sensations and images are coming out of her — but I think she's even more terrified to… — David L. Calof Copy Share Image
“HYPERAROUSAL After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
