Justice Quote by Meg Jay

“Seeing isn't always believing. Traumatic events are often accompanied by a form of disassociation.”

— Siri Hustvedt

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

— Judith Lewis Herman

“There can be no understanding without that sympathy which puts us, through the imagination, and (another's) situation.”

— Niall Ferguson

“Trauma is a unique phenomenon all on its own, as if it is an entity in and of itself.”

— Paul Levy

“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

“Vicarious traumatization. It can happen to those who bear secondary witness to the traumas of others.”

— Wally Lamb

“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

“While trauma keeps us dumbfounded, the path out of it is paved with words, carefully assembled, piece by piece, until the whole story can…

— Bessel A. van der Kolk

“certain incidents do more than just touch our raw spots or “hurt our feelings.” They injure us so deeply that they overturn our world.…

— Sue Johnson

“When we are forced to endure what we cannot endure, something breaks inside our minds. That broken-mindedness is commonly called trauma.”

— Macdougall John

“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

“Some people with DID present their narratives of sadistic abuse in a quite matter-of-fact way, without perceptible affect. This may sometimes be done as…

— Graeme Galton