Report, if you have a problem with this page“ To hold traumatic reality in consciousness requires a social context that affirms and protects the victim and that joins the victim and witness in a common alliance. For the individual victim, this social context is created by relationships with friends, lovers, and family. For the larger society, the social context is created by political movements that give voice to the disempowered. ”
Judith Lewis Herman
From : Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
