Book chapter
Trauma Theory: Deconstructing the Social
Creating Sanctuary, pp 27-86
1997
Abstract
In ways vastly more complicated than any computer, the human organism
is designed to function as a unity, an integrated and interconnected whole.
Unfortunately, our ability to think clearly, logically, and in an integrated
way is vulnerable to a multitude of stresses. These stresses can be biological, psychological, social, or moral, or any combination of these. Regardless
of the kind of stress, our capacity for clear thinking is constantly jeopardized by physiologically based bodily and emotional reactions over which
we have little control and about which we often have little awareness. Any
kind of overwhelming stress produces fragmentation, and, like HumptyDumpty, the pieces often elude reunion.
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Details
- Title
- Trauma Theory: Deconstructing the Social
- Creators
- Sandra L Bloom
- Publication Details
- Creating Sanctuary, pp 27-86
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Health Management and Policy
- Other Identifier
- 991020547435404721