Word: traumas
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Kessler, who leads playwrighting workshops for psychiatric patients, has obviously drawn on his experience in writing Orphans. Painful childhood memories and deep emotional trauma make the play resemble a group therapy session in places. But the accomplished script and acting ensure that this heavy psychologizing mostly succeeds...
They said the accident was a trying experience, which has affected their lives in the last two months. Xavier C. Badoux '95 said the trauma led to a slow start this semester...
...play. He makes the most of a drab and demanding part. Leonato's daughter, Hero (Janine Poreba), who keeps a low profile throughout the play, blossoms in the wedding scene. Her maidenly blush and swoon are entirely convincing. The audience can detect a difference in her after her trauma: the demure lass has aged into a deeper, more mature character...
...among the east's disoriented youth that the trauma goes deepest. Virtually every family counts at least one member out of work, and the expectation of ever finding a decent job is slim. The institutions for transmitting values have been upended. The relationship between adults and adolescents has been shaken by the rapid shift from communism to capitalism. Explains Britta Kolberg, a social worker in east Berlin schools: "Kids see parents who were convinced socialists and are now 100% supporters of the new society. They have turned around so completely that there is a general mistrust of grownups...
Kate Joost, now a graduate student at the University of Ohio, made the charges of harassment this fall after years of counseling to overcome her trauma...