The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma. (Judith Lewis Herman)

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

Judith Lewis Herman

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