| Some authorities say that up to 60
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| | Her real problem had been nightly incest
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| percent of psychiatric patients, both
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| | at the hands of her biological father,
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| in-patient and out-patient, report
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| | the rejection by her mother as a result,
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| childhood histories of physical or sexual
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| | and constant debasing comments by both
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| abuse or both. This estimate excludes
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| | parents and both sisters all of her life.
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| emotional abuse and neglect.
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| | Not even her head-banging, a dead
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| My experience confirms that very many
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| | giveaway for sexual abuse, was noticed.
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| patients are suffering from PTSD
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| | Another woman was in treatment for thirty
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| (posttraumatic stress disorder) as a
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| | years for depression and a "borderline
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| direct result of childhood maltreatment.
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| | personality disorder," ten of these years
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| But they do not know what their real
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| | with the same psychiatrist. When the
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| problem is.
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| | decade had passed, he remarked, "I really
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| Psychologists and psychiatrists know what
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| | don't think I can help you."
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| to expect in the way of symptoms with war
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| | Never was her sadistically violent
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| veterans: PTSD. We know as fact that the
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| | tormentor, her husband, ever seen or even
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| experiences of war can produce in even
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| | asked about. She in no way had a
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| the strongest individual the
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| | borderline personality disorder, but she
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| constellation of symptoms that therapists
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| | was indeed suffering from PTSD as a
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| should recognize as trauma. But for some
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| | result of life-long abuse.
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| reason, we have only begun to make this
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| | None of her therapists had been
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| same connection with people whose lives
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| | interested in causality. A disinterest in
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| have been a "war."
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| | root cause is, in my opinion, the
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| One woman, who spent nearly 20 years in
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| | greatest weakness in the mental-health
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| therapy, first with an educational
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| | professions.
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| counselor, then three psychiatrists, plus
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| | We have clung so closely to the medical
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| a family therapist, found herself with
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| | model that emotional disturbances of most
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| suicidal feelings right up to the time
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| | any kind have historically been seen as
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| she entered our group for domestic abuse.
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| | free-standing, as though they had arisen
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| One psychiatrist, an analyst, spent two
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| | from an infection, from a vacuum, or from
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| years asking her, "What do you think?"
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| | nowhere.
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| Another psychiatrist gave her open
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| | How this mentality has survived is a
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| prescriptions for highly addictive drugs,
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| | mystery, when in any other science the
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| and the third psychiatrist wanted to use
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| | principle of cause and effect rules.
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| electroconvulsive therapy, probably the
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| | Put another way, for every action there
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| worst possible treatment for trauma
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| | is a reaction. Molest, torture,
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| survivors. The family therapist ordered
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| | humiliate, or neglect a child severely
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| her to draw a family geneology chart.
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| | enough, and PTSD or similar symptoms will
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| None of the above professionals seemed
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| | be the reaction. For this reason, the
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| determined to find the cause of her
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| | treatment of domestic abuse is the
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| suffering; they just had their favorite
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| | treatment of child abuse, and both are
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| ways of treating symptoms.
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| | the treatment of trauma.
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