Animal instinct Quote by Ann Frederick

The willingness to face traumas - be they large, small, primitive or fresh - is the key to healing from them. They may never…

— Mark Epstein

“So for those who think abuse survivors can simply logically process their situation and get out of and over the situation easily, think again.…

— Shahida Arabi

“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

“There’s one more symptom we need to look at before looking at how trauma actually gets into the body and mind and causes long-term…

— Peter A. Levine

Trauma causes us to have an internal experience that is frightening, angry, and shameful. When we feel threatened, as we do when we are…

— Peter A. Levine

“The study of psychological trauma has repeatedly led into realms of the unthinkable and foundered on fundamental questions of belief.”

— Judith Lewis Herman

“Trauma may be endured through a physiological or psychological threat to life or overall wellbeing.”

— Asa Don Brown

I am often asked how I can work with a subject as morbid as trauma without becoming burned out or depressed. My answer to…

— Peter A. Levine

People generally don't suffer high rates of PTSD after natural disasters. Instead, people suffer from PTSD after moral atrocities. Soldiers who've endured the depraved…

— David Brooks

“The experience of psychological trauma, as is typically diagnosed (posttraumatic stress disorder [PTSD]), has at least some of the following symptoms: • Reliving the…

— Alan Downs

What is required to face trauma is the ability to mourn, fully and deeply, all that has been taken from us. Only through mourning…

— Aurora Levins Morales

“The symptomatology of PTSD. In PTSD a traumatic event is not remembered and relegated to one's past in the same way as other life…

— Babette Rothschild