"Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the survivor thus persists even after she is free."
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Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery
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Quotes by Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery
"The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma."