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Trauma is the defense of the abused against the perpetrators’ will to make their crimes forgotten. […] Advances in the field occur only when they are supported by a political movement powerful enough to legitimate an alliance between investigators and patients and to counteract the ordinary social processes of silencing and denial. In the absence of strong political movements for human rights, the active process of bearing witness inevitably gives way to the active process of forgetting. Repression, dissociation, and denial are phenomena of social as well as individual consciousness.
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28. Oktober 2024 |
Judith L. Herman
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community
Die Geschichte des Beobachtens statt des Handelns wiederholt sich immer und immer wieder. So können toxische Personen stets viel zu lange ihr Unwesen treiben, bevor sie vom Korrektiv gestoppt werden. Das ist nicht nur schädlich für Wirtschaft, Politik und Gesellschaft, es fordert auch unzählige unnötige Opfer, die weit weg von der Öffentlichkeit still leiden und keinen Schutz erfahren. […]
Jeder von uns, der Demütigungen und seelischen Missbrauch bei Arbeitskolleginnen und Arbeitskollegen, Freundinnen und Freunden beobachtet und sich aus Eigenschutz nicht vermittelnd für die Schwächsten in unserer Gesellschaft einsetzt, legitimiert diese zunehmende Form von psychischer Gewalt und ebnet Nachahmern das Feld. […]
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28. Oktober 2024 |
Dr. Anja Oswald , Dr. Jan Gysi , Dr. Pablo Hagemeyer
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politik
Sharing the traumatic experience with others is a precondition for the restitution of a sense of a meaningful world. In this process, the survivor seeks assistance not only from those closest to her but also from the wider community. The response of the community has a powerful influence on the ultimate resolution of the trauma.
Restoration of the breach between the traumatized person and the community depends, first, upon public acknowledgment of the traumatic event and, second, upon some form of community action. Once it is publicly recognized that a person has been harmed, the community must take action to assign responsibility for the harm and to repair the injury. These two responses – recognition and restitution – are necessary to rebuild the survivor’s sense of order and justice.
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28. Oktober 2024 |
Judith L. Herman
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community , justice
“In that moment [of experiencing harassment], I would have really benefited, I think, from a peer support network … what I would have wanted … is just access to other women who had gone through this experience.” (Midcareer South Asian-American woman freelance journalist)
“The magic of any kind of group work or therapy is just being seen. Just having the opportunity to be heard and to be seen and to be listened to is actually really profound for people.” (Michael Mitchell, Peer Support Coordinator, Whitman-Walker)
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28. Oktober 2024 |
PEN America
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community
I want to emphasize that the “stranger” in us is bred by a culture that won’t accept the spontaneous expression of children’s aliveness and vitality. This aspect of a culture gives rise to violent behavior and is responsible for the development of deficient identities. Personalities formed by the processes producing the inner stranger were never able to develop trust as an underlying component of their personality. Instead, they take on a “false identity” that makes them idealize repressive authorities in the hope that they will be rescued by the very people who are their tormentors.
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28. Oktober 2024 |
Arno Gruen
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politik
Survivors of atrocity of every age and every culture come to a point in their testimony where all questions are reduced to one, spoken more in bewilderment than in outrage: Why? The answer is beyond human understanding.
Beyond this unfathomable question, the survivor confronts another, equally incomprehensible question: Why me? The arbitrary, random quality of her fate defies the basic human faith in a just or even predictable world order. In order to develop a full understanding of the trauma story, the survivor must examine the moral questions of guilt and responsibility and reconstruct a system of belief that makes sense of her undeserved suffering.
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28. Oktober 2024 |
Judith L. Herman
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politik
We do not ask the questions that are central to transformative justice: Why has harm occurred? Who is responsible (beyond the individual perpetrator — as in, how is community implicated)? How can this harm be prevented in the future?
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We must invest deeply and fervently in the dignity of human life. We must not give in to the urge to do harm, even in justice’s name. We must recognize, name, and transform the instinct to humiliate, harm, and coerce those we see as bad or as wrongdoers. No one is disposable.
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28. Oktober 2024 |
Kai Cheng Thom
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justice
Der Opfer-Überlebensmodus In diesem Überlebensmodus fordert das Opfergefühl der Mutter, welches aus ihrem Trauma und ihrer gespaltenen Psyche heraus entstanden ist, von jedem Menschen, sie zu retten, ihr zu dienen, sein Leben für sie aufzugeben. Für diese Art Mutter ist es unabdingbar, dass sich ihr Kind für ihre Sehnsüchte und Wünsche opfert. Die Mutter akzeptiert das Kind nur, wenn sie von seiner Hilflosigkeit und Unterwürfigkeit profitieren kann. Das Kind ist gewollt, nicht um seiner selbst willen, sondern um etwas für seine Mutter zu tun.
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28. Oktober 2024 |
Vivian Broughton
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täter-opfer , trauma
The legal system is designed to protect men from the superior power of the state but not to protect women or children from the superior power of men.
It therefore provides strong guarantees for the rights of the accused but essentially no guarantees for the rights of the victim. If one set out by design to devise a system for provoking intrusive post-traumatic symptoms, one could not do better than a court of law. Women who have sought justice in the legal system commonly compare this experience to being raped a second time.
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28. Oktober 2024 |
Judith L. Herman
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community , justice
If you expose a problem, you pose a problem; if you pose a problem; you become the problem. The management of a problem becomes the management of a person. In other words, one way of dealing with a problem is to stop people from talking about it or to make the people who talk about it go away. If people stop talking about the problem, or the people who talk about it go away, it can then be assumed that the problem has gone away. I hear an instruction here. We are being told to stop talking about problems or go away.
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28. Oktober 2024 |
Sara Ahmed
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community , trigger