Onno Quotes

#1. He and Onno had once come to the conclusion that you had to decide for yourself whether after your death you wanted to return to your father, then you must go into fire, because that was spirit, but your mother was of course the earth, the body.

Harry Mulisch

#2. The worst thing that can happen for people who don't want women to be strong is that we help each other and become a force.

Sarah Silverman

#3. Comfort, support, and care are essential in maintaining and improving an individual's mental efficiency, in part because they have important physiological calming effects (Schore, 1994; 2003b), and favorable effects on the immune system.

Onno Van Der Hart

#4. My wife and I have mellowed out as we've gone along. With the first baby, when she cried, we'd think, Oh my God, what do we do now? But with Finley, our fourth - he's the easiest baby ever, and I think that has a lot to do with the fact that we're much more relaxed these days.

Chris O'Donnell

#5. traumatized individuals (as EP) "are continuing the action, or rather the attempt at action, which began when the thing happened; and they exhaust themselves in these everlasting recommencements" (p. 663).

Onno Van Der Hart

#6. For anyone that's ever had a musical breakthrough in their career, it's always followed by the departure period right after.

Questlove

#7. social isolation and lack of self awareness can occur partly because there are simply no words to tell the story.

Onno Van Der Hart

#8. Their suffering essentially relates to a terrifying and painful past that haunts them.

Onno Van Der Hart

#9. Do not get attached to worldly things and pursuits. Be in the world, but do not let the world be in you.

Sathya Sai Baba

#10. The core issue in traumatization is that survivors have been unable to realize fully what has happened to them and how it affects their lives and who they are. In other words, the inability to realize involves many ways of not knowing massive psychic trauma

Onno Van Der Hart

#11. Once this pathogenic kernel could be integrated, her anxiety abated, and her ANP and EP fully integrated.

Onno Van Der Hart

#12. Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

Franz Grillparzer

#13. As EP, survivors have been unable to create a complete personal story and are unable to share the original experience verbally and socially. They are stuck in the traumatic experience where they relive rather than retell their terror.

Onno Van Der Hart

#14. Sometimes patients may report traumatic memories of events that they have not actually experienced themselves. Van der Hart and Van der Velden (1995)

Onno Van Der Hart

#15. I took an acting class for 10 seconds before I played a lead in a student movie. I showed the film to an agent who said he would send me on interviews but wouldn't sign me.

Kirstie Alley

#16. Early traumatization is a major risk factor for more severe symptoms that persist over time. Thus childhood traumatization plays a central role in the development of trauma-related disorders in children and adults.

Onno Van Der Hart

#17. The criteria of agency and ownership distinguish structural dissociation from other manifestations of insufficient integration such as intruding panic attacks in panic disorder or intrusions of negative cognitions in major depression.

Onno Van Der Hart

#18. All my life I've been prejudiced against wealthy people.

Ethel Waters

#19. Structural dissociation occurs during confrontations with overwhelming events when mental efficiency is too low.

Onno Van Der Hart