"The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud..." - Judith Herman

💊 Healing

“The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma and healing resolves it”

— Judith Herman

Healing resolves the fundamental tension between denial and expression of trauma.

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“The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness”

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“Recovery can take place only within the context of relationships it cannot occur in isolation”

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“Traumatic events destroy the sustaining bonds between individual and community and recovery requires rebuilding those bonds”

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