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When a person is angry with someone from the past, such as a mother or father, he or she may project this anger toward someone in the present. This person in the present usually has some quality that is evocative of the person from the past.
Kenneth M. Adams • When He's Married to Mom: How to Help Mother-Enmeshed Men Open Their Hearts to True Love and Commitment
disintegration of people’s self-protective capacities.
Elizabeth Hopper • Overcoming Trauma through Yoga: Reclaiming Your Body
In the traumatized person, these resources are diminished. Often, any stimulus will activate the frozen (trauma) response rather than the appropriate orienting response (i.e., upon hearing a car backfire, a traumatized vet may collapse in fear).