Psychological Trauma Quotes

• Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma.

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  Graydon Carter

  Long   Water   Brain  

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• The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.

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  Judith Lewis Herman

  Events   Denial   Conflict  

  "Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror". Book by Judith Lewis Herman, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 1992.

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• The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce. It creates a lot of anger and emotional hardship. People may become quite depressed.

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  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Jobs   Divorce   Emotional  

  "Bait and Switch". Interview with April Dembosky, www.motherjones.com. September 9, 2005.

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• Intense asana practice - too much, too soon - can have detrimental effects. It can also promote a dissociation from the personal sensitivity and self awareness that I am trying to encourage. I don't want to contribute to furthering physical or psychological trauma.

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  James Fox

  Self   Practice   Trying  

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• A return to the 1967 lines and the abandonment of the settlements near Jerusalem would be such a psychological trauma for Israel as to endanger its survival.

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  Henry A. Kissinger

  Israel   Survival   Would Be  

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