Trauma - the search for a poisoned chalice?

Examines trauma's impact on humanitarian workers, contrasting their experiences with common trauma narratives, and argues for reframing trauma discourse to foster resilience and genuine growth without victimhood perspectives.

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Did all these people really experience “trauma?” in a recognizably similar way?

Petersen writes • Failure to Cope "Under Capitalism"

When people are traumatized, our internal systems remain aroused. We become hypervigilant but are unable to locate the source of this pervasive threat. This situation causes fear and reactivity to escalate, amplifying the need to identify the source of the threat. The result: we become likely candidates for re-enactmentin search of an enemy.

Peter A. Levine • Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma

to vanquishing trauma comes not through confronting it directly, but by working with its reflection, mirrored in our instinctual responses.