Word: trauma
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...centers are still groping their way toward the ideal form of care. One lesson they have learned is to avoid separating victims from their families, since fear for the life and safety of a spouse and children is usually part of the trauma. Another concern is that doctors may be regarded as the enemy. Many torturers are dressed as white-coated specialists, and some even insist that victims call them "doctor" to help legitimize their physical abuse...
...trauma is hardly in evidence in The Grain of the Voice, a collection of interviews that appeared in various journals from 1962 to 1980; what is in evidence is the voice of Roland Barthes, preserved and displayed: "We have embalmed our speech like a mummy, to preserve it forever." Yet an important difference exists--no death has occurred, nor will it ever. The voice, though disembodied, continues to speak, familiar, reassuring, exasperated and sometimes exasperating...
...served a jail term of four months. When Goetz was 13, his father, a wealthy businessman in Rhinebeck, N.Y., was convicted of sexually molesting two 15-year-old boys. After an appeal, the father pleaded guilty to a lesser charge, disorderly conduct. "One can hypothesize that the trauma his father sustained made him feel very helpless, motivated him to make sure that another such situation would never occur to him," suggested Psychiatrist Bessel Van Der Kolk, director of the Trauma Center of Massachusetts Mental Health Center in Boston. Perhaps, the psychiatrist added, Goetz "took revenge for all he had suffered...
Last week's tragedy was a personal trauma for Union Carbide Chairman Warren Anderson, who has spent 39 years at the company. A graduate of Colgate, where he was a chemistry major and a football letterman, Anderson joined Union Carbide in 1945 as a salesman and moved steadily up the ranks to the chairmanship in 1982. Employees last week admired the way he rushed to India after the accident, even though he knew that he would surely face trouble as soon as he stepped off the airplane. Anderson has been trying to give new momentum to a company that...
...intermediate ground between presumed consent and complete dependence--you could call it "required request." It would oblige physicians to ask [next of kin for permission to harvest organs]. With this sanction, that the doctors will always ask, it would overcome doctors' reluctance to do so, and reduce the trauma of the families. It would be a sanctioned part of social discourse which is something which, to me, we clearly should...