Word: trauma
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...therapy a long time." His stepdaughter has lived consecutively with her grandmother, her natural father, in a shelter for girls from broken homes and now, at almost 18, with an aunt. No one can predict whether she will ever get over her childhood trauma...
...would hit a woman? Not only hit her, but blacken her eyes, break the bones in her face, beat her breasts, kick her abdomen and menace her with a gun? There is a very good chance that he was beaten as a child. Perhaps because of his early trauma, he is often emotionally stunted. Michael Groetsch, director of probation for the New Orleans Municipal Court, sees scores of accused wife abusers every week. "There is a very interesting analogy between a male batterer and a two-or three-year-old child," Groetsch says. "His tantrums are very similar to those...
...complaints of dog lovers are disturbing. The only way we can simulate the reaction of trauma to the body, without actually using humans, is to experiment on animals. If doctors are not allowed to practice on these creatures, they will not become the highly skilled surgeons that people can trust...
...common fantasy of Westerners that there was once an Old Japan (samurais, geishas, moon watching from the tatami) that was destroyed after 1945 by the trauma of Westernization, so that the New Japan ceased in some basic way to be Japanese. Nothing could be further from the truth. What the Japanese do, and always have done, is much more subtle. They adapt what they need from other cultures. They seem always to be submitting-sometimes masochistically-to cultural colonizations, of which the American is only the most recent. But what they make of the acquired form is invariably Japanese...
...capital's elite, stately white peacocks pick their way among sparsely occupied cane lawn chairs. A few months ago, Mexico's well-to-do had to wait an hour to get a table. Says Claudio Weiz, an Argentine businessman in Mexico City: "Mexicans are in a trauma. They have never suffered this kind of crisis...