{"quotes":[{"text":"Now, however open a person manages to be, there is one possibility to which he remains as closed as ever: the possibility that when he uncovers his deepest anxieties he will find hidden inside them certain horrifying truths which his whole effort to control his life has been designed to keep repressed.","author":"Jerome A. Miller","tags":["anxiety","control","horror","repression"],"id":7725,"author_id":"Jerome+A.+Miller"},{"text":"You could continue to repress and think about the life you could have had or you can take what you want from life and see that the world finds that person infinitely more irresistible...","author":"Roberto Hogue","tags":["irresistibility","irresistible","living-in-the-moment","living-in-the-present","living-life-to-the-fullest","regret","regrets","repressing-emotions","repression","seize-everything-without-regret","seize-the-day","seize-the-night"],"id":19066,"author_id":"Roberto+Hogue"},{"text":"First Afghanistan, now Iraq. So who's next? Syria? North Korea? Iran? Where will it all end?' If these illegal interventions are permitted to continue, the implication seems to be, pretty soon, horror of horrors, no murderously repressive regimes might remain.","author":"Daniel Kofman","tags":["afghanistan","antiwar-movement","axis-of-evil","despotism","foreign-policy","foreign-policy-of-the-us","interventionism","iran","iraq","iraq-war","north-korea","repression","syria","war","war-in-afghanistan-2001-present"],"id":25821,"author_id":"Daniel+Kofman"},{"text":"When we operate on the basis of the will to control, we are aware of only one kind of 'evil': the failure of existence to conform to the plan we have for it.","author":"Jerome A. Miller","tags":["anxiety","control","horror","repression"],"id":28918,"author_id":"Jerome+A.+Miller"},{"text":"In 2006, there is no army of recovered memory therapists, and Dr McNally’s assumptions about patients with PTSD and those working in this field are troubling. Owing to past debates, those working in the PTSD field are perhaps more knowledgeable than others about malingered, factitious, and iatrogenic variants.Why, then, does Dr McNally attack PTSD as a valid diagnosis, demean those working in the field, and suggest that sufferers are mostly malingered or iatrogenic, while giving little or no consideration is given to such variants of other psychiatric conditions? Perhaps the trauma field has been “so often embroiled in serious controversy” (4, p 816) for the same reason Dr McNally and others have trouble imagining the traumatization of a Vietnam War cook or clerk. One theory suggests that there is a conscious decision on the part of some individuals to deny trauma and its impact. Another suggests that some individuals may use dissociation or repression to block from consciousness what is quite obvious to those who listen to real-life patients.'Cameron, C., \u0026 Heber, A. (2006). Re: Troubles in Traumatology, and Debunking Myths about Trauma and Memory/Reply: Troubles in Traumatology and Debunking Myths about Trauma and Memory. Canadian journal of psychiatry, 51(6), 402.","author":"Colin Cameron","tags":["denial","dissociation","iatrogenic","malingering","mental-health-stigma","mental-illness-discrimination","ptsd","recovered-memory-therapists","repression","society-denial","trauma-memory","trauma-survivors","traumatized"],"id":29843,"author_id":"Colin+Cameron"},{"text":"Silence descended on the house. [....] Amma must have sensed that this was the sort of silence that, left unchallenged, could consume the family from within.","author":"Vivek Shanbhag","tags":["asian","children","family","middle-class","parents","repression","silence"],"id":30991,"author_id":"Vivek+Shanbhag"},{"text":"Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publications, the free press as we know it disappears. Then the spectre of a government agent will look over the shoulder of everyone who reads. The purchase of a book or pamphlet today may result in a subpoena tomorrow. Fear of criticism goes with every person into the bookstall. The subtle, imponderable pressures of the orthodox lay hold. Some will fear to read what is unpopular, what the powers-that-be dislike. When the light of publicity may reach any student, any teacher, inquiry will be discouraged. The books and pamphlets that are critical of the administration, that preach an unpopular policy in domestic or foreign affairs, that are in disrepute in the orthodox school of thought will be suspect and subject to investigation. The press and its readers will pay a heavy price in harassment. But that will be minor in comparison with the menace of the shadow which government will cast over literature that does not follow the dominant party line. If the lady from Toledo can be required to disclose what she read yesterday and what she will read tomorrow, fear will take the place of freedom in the libraries, book stores, and homes of the land. Through the harassment of hearings, investigations, reports, and subpoenas government will hold a club over speech and over the p.","author":"William O. Douglas","tags":["communication","control","first-amendment","freedom","freedom-of-thought","government","liberty","privacy","repression","surveillance","thought-police"],"id":33211,"author_id":"William+O.+Douglas"},{"text":"As she had been walking from the ward to that room, she had felt such pure hatred that now she had no more rancor left in her heart. She had finally allowed her negative feelings to surface, feelings that had been repressed for years in her soul. She had actually FELT them, and they were no longer necessary, they could leave.","author":"Paulo Coelho","tags":["feelings","hatred","repression"],"id":34913,"author_id":"Paulo+Coelho"},{"text":"Unexpressed grief leaves the deepest scars.","author":"Marty Rubin","tags":["grief","repression","the-unexpressed"],"id":37037,"author_id":"Marty+Rubin"},{"text":"... You sometimes had to force people to say things they would rather not articulate, just so they could hear their own words. It was interesting the way people could know things and not know them at the same time. Denial, he said, was like a thick stone wall.","author":"Nell Freudenberger","tags":["denial","fear","knowing","repression","society-denial"],"id":52132,"author_id":"Nell+Freudenberger"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":69,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}