Judith Herman — 💊 Healing Quote

Healing resolves the fundamental tension between denial and expression of trauma.

“The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma and healing resolves it”

— Judith Herman

Healing resolves the fundamental tension between denial and expression of trauma.

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More from Judith Herman

“The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness”

— Judith Herman

“Recovery can take place only within the context of relationships it cannot occur in isolation”

— Judith Herman

“Traumatic events destroy the sustaining bonds between individual and community and recovery requires rebuilding those bonds”

— Judith Herman