Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
Language: English
Pages: 336
ISBN: 0465061710
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
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Women question their traditional acceptance of a subordinate role. Men question their traditional complicity in a hierarchy of dominance. Often these assumptions and behaviors have been so ingrained that they have operated outside of awareness. Mardi Horowitz, describing the third stage of psychotherapy with a rape survivor, shows how the patient came to realize that her stereotypically feminine attitudes and behavior put her at risk: “One unconscious attitude present before the stress event was
securely attached children and their mothers embarked on a more normal developmental pathway that created its own virtuous cycle, and further intervention was not necessary. By contrast, the mothers and children who did not receive the home visiting service were unable to correct their early relational disconnection, which then formed the basis for a worsening cascade of developmental pathology. Given the enormous medical, psychiatric, and social costs of childhood trauma and the availability of
remember it exactly. I returned home a much different person from when I left. I went to work as a paramedic, and I found a considerable amount of self-satisfaction out of doing that work. It was almost like a continuance of what I had been doing in Vietnam, but on a much, much lower capacity. There was no gunshot trauma, there was no burn trauma, I wasn’t seeing sucking chest wounds or amputations or shrapnel. I was seeing a lot of medical emergencies, a lot of diabetic emergencies, a lot of
he had read about Freud and he did not believe in any of that stuff: how could his pain go away by talking to a therapist?” This patient eventually agreed to tell his story to a therapist, not to help himself but to further his political cause. Though in the process he obtained considerable symptomatic relief, he never acknowledged either his diagnosis or his need for treatment: “K said that he wanted to give his testimony, but that he also wanted to know why the therapist was willing to help
“reparenting” by an all-giving therapist could heal her. The consultant suggested that therapy focus on mourning for the damage that had been done to the patient’s capacity for love. As Olivia grieved the harm that was done to her, she discovered that she was not, after all, a “bottomless pit.” She began to recognize the many ways in which her natural sociability had survived, and she began to feel more hopeful about the possibility of intimacy in her life. She found that she could both give and
