Quotes About Psychological Trauma

#1. Intense asana practice - too much, too soon - can have detrimental effects. It can also promote a dissociation from the personal sensitivity and self awareness that I am trying to encourage. I don't want to contribute to furthering physical or psychological trauma.

James Fox

#2. 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

#3. suffer lasting psychological trauma. Still, I don't think it's a good idea to subject her to an interrogation tonight." "Not an interrogation,

Dean Koontz

#4. A return to the 1967 lines and the abandonment of the settlements near Jerusalem would be such a psychological trauma for Israel as to endanger its survival.

Henry A. Kissinger

#5. The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#6. It wasn't personal - more of a "been there, done that, got my lifetime supply of psychological trauma" kind of thing.

Joanna Wylde

#7. Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma.

Graydon Carter

#8. Unlike other forms of psychological disorders, the core issue in trauma is reality.

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

#9. They feel guilty for having survived so they pretend the bad things never happened
Exodus (1960) screenplay

Dalton Trumbo

#10. I am not smart, I pay attention.
I am not considerate, I listen.
I am not patient, I make time.
I'm not lucky, I work hard.

Mark W. Boyer

#11. There is tremendous trauma in the betrayal caused by a perpetual liar as they repeatedly commit psychological abuse.

Cathy Burnham Martin

#12. I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.

Roberto Cavalli

#13. All my life I've always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.

Stanley Kubrick

#14. Acknowledgement of the prevalence and impact of trauma challenges psychological theories that localize dysfunction within the individual while ignoring the contribution of social forces on adjustment (Brett, 1996; Ross, 2000).

Rachel E. Goldsmith

#15. I appreciate all the people that can respect and appreciate my music.

Jhene Aiko

#16. It is essential for world peace that the world religions make peace with each other. If they don't, we can hardly expect the nations of the world to lay down their arms.

Thomas Keating

#17. To some extent, we've always had an admiration for extroversion in our culture. But the extrovert ideal really came to play at the turn of the 20th century when we had the rise of big business.

Susan Cain

#18. Trauma is any stressor that occurs in a sudden and forceful way and is experienced as overwhelming.

Stephanie S. Covington

#19. They made love until Chris had to leave for the airport, without sleeping at all. After Chris had left, wearing wrinkled jeans and Xander's sweat and seed on his skin, Xander flopped back onto the bed and looked miserably at the clock.

Amy Lane

#20. There are so many things that can break you if there's nothing to hold you together.

Katja Millay

#21. There is nothing that isn't perfect, the only reason we don't see that perfection constantly is because we lack humility.

Frederick Lenz

#22. His bondage had softened him. Irresponsibility had weakened him. He had forgotten how to shift for himself. The night yawned about him.

Jack London

#23. Traumatic events challenge an individual's view of the world as a just, safe and predictable place. Traumas that are caused by human behavior. . . commonly have more psychological impact than those caused by nature.

American Psychological Association

#24. Way
as her hands reached to the back of his father's head and she begged him to spare Gregor's life.

Franz Kafka

#25. A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.

Andrew Mellon

#26. The capacity for dissociation enables the young child to exercise their innate life-sustaining need for attachment in spite of the fact that principal attachment figures are also principal abusers.

Warwick Middleton

#27. We don't think.
We think we think.

Natasha Tsakos

#28. Theoretical webs, dirty webs, fusty webs, old and shrivelling away into nothingness, a fine dust.Who needs that kind of stuff. Far far better getting out into the open air and doing it, actually doing it, something solid and concrete and unconceptualisable.

James Kelman

#29. If it wasn't for pick-pockets I'd have no sex life at all.

Rodney Dangerfield

#30. Worldview is often confused with perception; rather, it is our perception that influences our worldview.

Asa Don Brown

#31. Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological problem. And it's true that people who feel inadequate, insecure, or overly dependent tend to be more jealous than others.

Helen Fisher

#32. Within weeks of my arrival in New York, I was someone else, not because there had been a revolution in my psychological makeup or any trauma. It was simply this: people saw me in a light in which I had never been seen before.

Siri Hustvedt

#33. Second, that everyone, regardless of who they are, will want to be promoted out of the job as soon as possible.

Marcus Buckingham

#34. When I ask you who you are, you'd better say my fucking name.

Alicen Grey

#35. Trauma may be endured through a physiological or psychological threat to life or overall wellbeing.

Asa Don Brown

#36. Because of that, he didn't know how to love someone who actually loved him. He had learned a twisted, tormented kind of love filled with pain and exploitation.

Jacqueline Simon Gunn