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...greatest national trauma since the Civil War, the U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, has yet to be exorcised in drama or fiction. One early attempt is Sticks and Bones. Last year's Tony Award winner on Broadway, it is a har rowing play that probes the country's unaccepted guilt and pain...
Psychiatrist Theodore Lidz feels that abortion is always "a potential major trauma," and Washington, D.C., Psychiatrist Julius Fogel believes that "a psychological price is paid. It may be alienation, it may be a pushing away from human warmth." In the experience of Los Angeles Psychoanalyst Ralph Greenson, abortion is often followed by a delayed reaction of depression. Oddly enough, the father is more likely to feel guilty than the mother...
...experience of Psychiatrist Carol Nadelson of the Pregnancy Counseling Service in Boston, giving up a child for adoption "is a much more major trauma than abortion." Psychologist David points out that while psychosis after childbirth develops in 4,000 U.S. mothers each year, there are few cases of post-abortion psychosis. Nor is there much evidence even of less serious emotional trouble...
...research institute, although it would need the support of the Jesuits or some other sponsor. But the decision from Rome sharply inhibits whatever potential remains-and that is the loss. Woodstock was once renowned, after all, as an institution of particular excellence. Given time to recover from the admitted trauma of its move, it might well have become one again...
...denial" of the threat of death. "It's like the pupil, which contracts in bright light to avoid being overstimulated. This is good, healthy adaptiveness," Stein explains, adding, "The question is, will the pupil dilate again in the dark-will these people find a way to assimilate this trauma into their lives...