“Leaches Ten Tall by Stewart Stafford Don't play this game with me, Predatory whelk of tide pools, Taint me as Rigoletto to… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“While we avoid taking credit for success, women leap at the opportunity to take responsibility for failure. Men tend to externalize the… — Colette Dowling Copy Share Image
“From then on, that Sunday was like a veil that came between me and everything I did. I would play, I would… — Annie Ernaux Copy Share Image
“What still frightens me is that society is fickle. There was a time when nobody believed in the reality of abuse, and… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
“The study of psychological trauma has repeatedly led into realms of the unthinkable and foundered on fundamental questions of belief.” — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“The wilderness was dangerous; it infected me. I would be forever unmoored, inured to the safety of isolation.” — Scott Pearce Copy Share Image
The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce. It creates a lot of… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Intense asana practice - too much, too soon - can have detrimental effects. It can also promote a dissociation from the personal… — James Fox Copy Share Image
“(...) psychiatrists today recognize the contortionist's act that was required of women in an age when they were expected to stifle their… — Colette Dowling Copy Share Image
“Several psychologists (L. Armstrong, 1994; Enns, McNeilly, Corkery, & Gilbert, 1995; Herman, 1992; McFarlane & van der Kolk, 1996; Pope & Brown,… — Rachel E. Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“Traumatic events challenge an individual's view of the world as a just, safe and predictable place. Traumas that are caused by human… — American Psychological Association Copy Share Image
“The internal system of an abuse victim differs from the non-abuse system with regard to the consistent absence of the effective leadership,… — Bessel A. van der Kolk Copy Share Image
“My back curves over my soft belly. My shoulders are shaking. I’m broken and folded over and sobbing. My dignity dissolves into… — Paul Donaldson Copy Share Image
“I danced in the flames and pranced on the shames of those whose names I could not reveal. I have been told,… — The Raveness Copy Share Image
“Added to the shock of the routine violation of their bodies was the trauma of having to relinquish their children to unknown… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“Given our socialization into dependency, women are also poor risk takers. (...) We avoid new situations, job changes, moves to different parts… — Colette Dowling Copy Share Image
“Because of that, he didn't know how to love someone who actually loved him. He had learned a twisted, tormented kind of… — Jacqueline Simon Gunn 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
“(...) performance anxiety [in the worplace] is connected to other, more general fears which have to do with feeling inadequate and defenseless… — Colette Dowling 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
“Fear (...) that has no relation to capabilities or even to reality is epidemic among women today. Fear of being independent (that… — Colette Dowling Copy Share Image
A return to the 1967 lines and the abandonment of the settlements near Jerusalem would be such a psychological trauma for Israel… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
