{"author":"Judith Lewis Herman","author_id":"Judith+Lewis+Herman","total_quotes":8,"quotes":[{"text":"The traumatic moment becomes encoded in an abnormal form of memory, which breaks spontaneously into consciouness, both as flashbacks during waking states and as traumatic nightmares during sleep. Small, seemingly insignificant reminders can also evoke these memories, which often return with all the vividness and emotional force of the original event. Thus, even normally safe environments may come to feel dangerous, for the survivor can never be assured that she will not encounter some reminder of the trauma.","author":"Judith Lewis Herman","tags":["flashbacks","memory","nightmares","ptsd","recovered-memories","repressed-memories","trauma","trauma-memories","trauma-memory","traumatic-experiences","traumatic-stress","traumatization","traumatized","triggers"],"id":115960,"author_id":"Judith+Lewis+Herman"},{"text":"Combat and rape, the public and private forms of organized social violence, are primarily experiences of adolescent and early adult life. The United States Army enlists young men at seventeen; the average age of the Vietnam combat soldier was nineteen. In many other countries boys are conscripted for military service while barely in their teens. Similarly, the period of highest risk for rape is in late adolescence. Half of all victims are aged twenty or younger at the time they are raped; three-quarters are between the ages of thirteen and twenty-six. The period of greatest psychological vulnerability is also in reality the period of greatest traumatic exposure, for both young men and young women. Rape and combat might thus be considered complementary social rites of initiation into the coercive violence at the foundation of adult society. They are the paradigmatic forms of trauma for women and men.","author":"Judith Lewis Herman","tags":["combat","ptsd","rape","trauma"],"id":122968,"author_id":"Judith+Lewis+Herman"},{"text":"The study of psychological trauma has repeatedly led into realms of the unthinkable and foundered on fundamental questions of belief.","author":"Judith Lewis Herman","tags":["horror","psychological-trauma","psychology","ptsd","trauma","unspeakable","unthinkable"],"id":169088,"author_id":"Judith+Lewis+Herman"},{"text":"After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.","author":"Judith Lewis Herman","tags":["anxiety","danger","hypervigilance","jumpy","posttraumatic-stress-disorder","ptsd","self-preservation","startled","trauma","traumatized"],"id":206644,"author_id":"Judith+Lewis+Herman"},{"text":"The traumatized person is often relieved simply to learn the true name of her condition. By ascertaining her diagnosis, she begins the process of mastery. No longer imprisoned in the wordlessness of the trauma, she discovers that there is a language for her experience. She discovers that she is not alone; others have suffered in similar ways. She discovers further that she is not crazy; the traumatic syndromes are normal human responses to extreme circumstances. And she discovers, finally, that she is not doomed to suffer this condition indefinitely; she can expect to recover, as others have recovered...","author":"Judith Lewis Herman","tags":["hope","recovery","science","trauma"],"id":309393,"author_id":"Judith+Lewis+Herman"},{"text":"Dissociation appears to be... The internal mechanism by which terrorized people are silenced.","author":"Judith Lewis Herman","tags":["dissociation","dissociative-disorders","silence","silence-speaks","silenced","terror","traumatized"],"id":344443,"author_id":"Judith+Lewis+Herman"},{"text":"Implicit [in the psychiatric literature] is a set of normative assumptions regarding the father's prerogatives and the mother's obligations within the family, The father, like the children, is presumed to be entitled to the mother's love, nurturance, and care. In fact, his dependent needs actually supersede those of the children, for if a mother falls to provide the accustomed intentions, it is taken for granted that some other female must be found to take her place. The oldest daughter is a frequent choice... The father's wish, indeed his right, to continue to receive female nurturance, whatever the circumstances, is accepted without question.","author":"Judith Lewis Herman","tags":["abusive-father","abusive-men","bias","biased","dysfunctional-families","father","father-s-rights","fatherhood","fathers-and-daughters","incest","injustice","patriarchy","prejudice","psychiatric-community","psychiatry"],"id":379496,"author_id":"Judith+Lewis+Herman"},{"text":"The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.","author":"Judith Lewis Herman","tags":["denial","post-traumatic-stress-disorder","psychotherapy","ptsd","taboo","trauma","truth"],"id":414472,"author_id":"Judith+Lewis+Herman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":8,"pages":1}}