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“The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness”
Healing trauma requires bringing what was banished back into conscious awareness.
“Recovery can take place only within the context of relationships it cannot occur in isolation”
— Judith Herman
“Traumatic events destroy the sustaining bonds between individual and community and recovery requires rebuilding those bonds”
“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”
