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Despite all these burdens, says Fenigstein, survivors' children are not inevitably victims of their parents' trauma. Says he: "Plenty of children managed to cope on their own, or they went for help." Several years ago, Fenigstein started "Holocaust workshops"-group therapy that seems to benefit most of the survivors and survivors' children who attend. Children with enough inner strength do not copy their parents, he says. "When there's a knock on the door, which reminds parents of a traumatic experience in the war when the Nazis came, this child doesn't react with anxiety...
Although this accusation can be excused by the trauma of Ezera's experience, it is not an isolated example of Black overreaction. Other recent examples include the use of capitalization in Russell's editorial (e.g. "two security officers, on Black and one white," "70 people, 60 per cent Black and 40 per cent white," etc.); the demanded creation of ethnic studies departments in Chicano, Boricuan (Puerto Rican), Latin American, Asian American and Native American Studies; and the accusations (which were later dropped) against proposed Afro-Am Professor Lawrence W. Levine...
...probable consequence of increased inflation and unemployment will be more domestic violence, experts say. Two Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals are ready with special "Trauma Teams" to aid victims...
Children's Hospital specializes in child abuse cases, and Peter Bent Brigham aids mostly women and an occasional "battered husband," Phillis S. Schultz, chairman of the social service trauma team at Brigham Hospital, said recently...
Ekland did see him through his next trauma, the massive heart attack he suffered in Hollywood in 1964. Sellers has told people that a vision of Peg appeared to him and beckoned him back from the grave. He also says that he was clinically dead for 2½ minutes and that this gives him a further point of identification with Chance. "They later told me that I did not suffer any brain damage, but I have reason to believe I did. My mind has deteriorated since then." Citing absentmindedness and a general vagueness, he says, "I think I'm probably going...