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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.


Judith Lewis Herman

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GEORGE HERMAN And it is practically the same in the case of the four or five million poor peasants in France, and ...
HERMAN GORTER We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those...
HERMAN MELVILLE Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold peril...
HERMAN MELVILLE Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee; as for the time it did me. The...
HERMAN MELVILLE This whole notion that all African-Americans are not going to vote for Obama is not necessarily true...
HERMAN CAIN Polls are inaccurate in my opinion, based upon anecdotal evidence, based upon people that I know.
HERMAN CAIN Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but ...
HERMAN KAHN I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the ...
HERMAN HESSE Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relati...
HERMAN KAHN That would mean would be icing on the cake. The past 27 years has been the cake, that would be the i...
BOB HERMAN The joke was that we were retiring at the end of every year.
BOB HERMAN What I do, with the office schedule I don't schedule regular things past 2:30 p.m. - unless its an e...
BOB HERMAN Those years I was the assistant coach at Lancaster Catholic and got to coach my son to a section cha...
BOB HERMAN Defense is a big part of the game, and that was the difference in the game tonight. They had an inni...
BILL HERMAN We function as an advocacy group in forcing the administration's hand.
BILL HERMAN With everybody back on defense, that will be our strength. Everyone has experience playing in a regi...
BILL HERMAN That was big. We were awfully aggressive.
BILL HERMAN Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the fir...
HERMAN KAHN It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for thi...
HERMAN HESSE My overall message for labor members is... that we understand that the benefits of trade are clear, ...
ALEXIS HERMAN If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and b...
HERMAN HESSE Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
HERMAN MANKIEWICZ Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always sign...
HERMAN HESSE The worst thing right now is the weather. Every time we try to have something, there is a storm. How...
HERMAN ANDREWS (The boys) were really flaky. We had some boys who performed worse than they have all year long. Thi...
HERMAN ANDREWS I don't know how many people we're going to have participating, but if those people don't give 100 p...
HERMAN ANDREWS They had one of their low performances. We really took a few steps backward - steps we couldn't affo...
HERMAN ANDREWS There weren't any great performances, but we won it.
HERMAN ANDREWS We worked hard all year and tried to set an example for our people back home. Just because we are a ...
HERMAN ANDREWS It was so awesome. The work that we've put in during the season and out of season was great. When it...
HERMAN ANDREWS There were some other girls who had some fair performances, but I'm expecting better.
HERMAN ANDREWS Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?
HERMAN MELVILLE One right decision doth not a great president make.
HERMAN CAIN Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.
HERMAN WOUK