Existentialism Quote by Scott Pearce

“Unmoor the boat, we could go…downriver... History is a collection of found objects washed up through time. Goods, ideas, personalities surface towards us and…

— Jeanette Winterson

I grew up in northern Minnesota on 40 acres of wooded land 20 miles from the nearest town, and so the wilderness was home.…

— Cheryl Strayed

“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

“The internal system of an abuse victim differs from the non-abuse system with regard to the consistent absence of the effective leadership, the extreme…

— Bessel A. van der Kolk

“Traumatic events challenge an individual's view of the world as a just, safe and predictable place. Traumas that are caused by human behavior. .…

— American Psychological Association

“Several psychologists (L. Armstrong, 1994; Enns, McNeilly, Corkery, & Gilbert, 1995; Herman, 1992; McFarlane & van der Kolk, 1996; Pope & Brown, 1996) contend…

— Rachel E. Goldsmith

“(...) psychiatrists today recognize the contortionist's act that was required of women in an age when they were expected to stifle their own healthiest…

— Colette Dowling

Intense asana practice - too much, too soon - can have detrimental effects. It can also promote a dissociation from the personal sensitivity and…

— James Fox

The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce. It creates a lot of anger and…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

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

— Judith Lewis Herman

“What still frightens me is that society is fickle. There was a time when nobody believed in the reality of abuse, and now it…

— Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

“From then on, that Sunday was like a veil that came between me and everything I did. I would play, I would read, I…

— Annie Ernaux