Alf-nestor Quote by Alfred Nestor

“Traumatic memories have a number of unusual qualities. They are not encoded like the ordinary memories of adults in a verbal, linear narrative that…

— Jon Krakauer

“I have met many, many severely distressed people whose daily lives are filled with the agony of both remembered and unremembered trauma, who try…

— Carolyn Spring

“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

After a traumatic event, people tend to store a series of memories and arrange them into a meaningful narrative. They remember exactly where they…

— David Grann

“A traumatic experience is a seismic event that shakes our belief in a just world, robbing us of the sense that life is controllable,…

— Sheryl Sandberg

“Memories fade, but trauma remembers.”

— Dianne Lake

Clinical psychology tells us arguably that trauma is the ultimate killer.Memories r not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics. they can be…

— Lady Gaga

“These kinds of comments throughout early sessions establish the therapist as someone who knows about the past, is not afraid to talk about it,…

— Joyanna L. Silberg

“...our memory is enhanced by the emotion attending the event. The more intense the feelings the more accessible to the memory is the event.…

— Robert Dykstra

A whole life can be shaped by an old trauma, remembered or not.

— Lenore Terr

“Trauma is any terrifying event that instantly changes the world as we know it, leaving us helpless and emotionally overwhelmed.”

— Sue Johnson

“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