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Trauma and Recovery (1992)
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The guarantee of safety in a battering relationship can never be based upon a promise from the perpetrator, no matter how heartfelt. Rather, it must be based upon the self-protective capability of the victim. Until the victim has developed a detailed and realistic contingency plan and has demonstrated her ability to carry it out, she remains in danger of repeated abuse.
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In practice the standard for what constitutes rape is set not at the level of women's experience of violation but just above the level of coercion acceptable to men.
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The legal system is designed to protect men from the superior power of the state but not to protect women or children from the superior power of men. It therefore provides strong guarantees for the rights of the accused but essentially no guarantees for the rights of the victim. If one set out by design to devise a system for provoking intrusive post-traumatic symptoms, one could not do better than a court of law.
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It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He appeals to the universal desire to see, hear, and speak no evil. The victim, on the contrary, asks the bystander to share the burden of pain. The victim demands action, engagement, and remembering.
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After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.
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The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.
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In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If he cannot silence her absolutely, he tries to make sure no one listens.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Judith Lewis Herman
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March 31, 1942
(age 82)
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