"In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, and therefore it's safe to say that in a true war story nothing is ever absolutely true. Often in a true war story there is not even a point, or else the point doesn't hit you until at least 20 years later, in your sleep, and you wake up and shake your wife and start telling the story to her, except when you've gotten to the end you've forgotten the point again" (O'Brien, 276). This quotation illustrates the fact that the idiosyncrasy that has replaced the void created within the author's identity is one of distortion, in which truth and clarity are replaced by uncertainty and ambiguity. This point is also underscored by Stout's essay, as the following quotation in which Seth emphasizes his inability to relate to people due to his disassociation, largely suggests. "…I can't tell you what's going on. I'd really like to tell you but I can't" (Stout, 397). Seth's inability to tell Stout, his psychotherapist, what his own perceptions and thoughts are is due to the fact that they lack a sense of the definite, of the truth that is fairly germane to reality. A significant portion of his identity is at variance with that of a normal person's because it has been replaced by an idiosyncratic tendency in which uncertainty and ambiguity reigns instead. Such uncertainty is alluded to within Faludi's essay as well, and is probably most typified by the Citadel attorney who fought long and hard to keep Shannon Faulkner from entering the school. As previously mentioned, the...
The lawyer's inability to discern the true fact that women are not that different from men is underscored by the following quotation. "To Patterson, this was a triumphant moment…he had forced the government's witness to admit that a woman like Shannon Faulkner would have to be a mannish aberration from her gender. But in fact, Astin's testimony expressed the precise point that the plaintiff's side had been trying to make all along, and that the Citadel resisted: that the sexes were, in the end, not all that different" (Faludi, 95). The Citadel "resisted" this point because of the institutionalized trauma that is prevalent there and the fear associated with it, which allowed it to obfuscate a fairly simple point. Due to the idiosyncrasy found within trauma victims in which ambiguity replaces fear, the institution as a whole could not grasp this simplicity.
Trauma is considered as 'Mental Agony', distress due to problems internal or personal to the patient's/victim's, undergone by a person during a given period. Even physical or mental distress undergone can also be considered as Trauma.. Trauma means 'injury' and derives from the Greek word meaning 'wound'. Trauma is any physical or mental shock or injury, specifically a serious wound or injury caused by some physical action, as an automobile
Trauma 'the processing of traumatic experience is highly individualistic, and cannot easily be captured with simple diagnostic labels" (McFarlane and Van der Kolk, 1996: 562). Traumatic experiences vary significantly from person to person, the result of many different social and cultural factors as well as individual preferences and physiological factors. One can't simply ascribe a common treatment protocol to all patients undergoing a traumatic experience, because there have not been developed any specific
Trauma, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptom Clusters, And Physical Health Symptoms in Postabused Women Stephanie J. Woods and N. Margaret Wineman The purpose of this research is to evaluate PTSD symptom clusters (avoidance of the situation, hyper-arousal, and intrusions) to physical health symptoms in women who have suffered abuse. The researchers are also interested in how lifetime trauma is related to the PTSD symptom clusters and physical health symptoms. The researchers make a
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Trauma Centers The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta Georgia describe a trauma center as a kind of medical facility, usually a hospital, that has "…resources and equipment needed to help care for severely injured patients" (CDC). There are several levels to trauma centers, beginning with Level I and going up to Level IV. The Level I trauma center is the provider of the "highest level of trauma care" and Level
Child Abuse and NeglectThe ecological model is used to understand the person-in-environment perspective and is based on the idea that individuals are influenced by their environment in which they live and interact. On the micro level, this means that Brandon�s behavior, thoughts, feelings, and actions are affected by his immediate environment, such as his family, friends, peers, and school. On the mezzo level, this means that Brandon�s behavior and environment
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