Word: traumas
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...positions us at Tommy's innocent head while father and mother yell "You didn't hear it, you didn't see it" over and over and louder and louder into each ear. Russell's tasteless hand-held camera is thrusting and jabbing, commanding us to feel the child's trauma. So of course we feel very little, which perhaps makes sense because Tommy is struck deaf, dumb and blind by the experience and soon reappears grown up as Roger Daltrey, blank-eyed and looking like the aftermath of a heavy night of smashing guitars in the days when...
...California state unemployment official, finds that "losing a job is like losing a loved one." Adds Toni St. James, a San Francisco vocational psychologist: "Unemployment can become a psychological illness with symptoms as clearly defined as a disease like measles. Tragically, too many of the unemployed face the trauma alone, feeling rejected even by those who love them." At social gatherings, unemployed people often find themselves standing alone. They have little to talk about because so much of the conversation is job-oriented. Other guests tend to avoid them, much as football players move away from an injured teammate...
...lingering feeling that the U.S. to some extent is still a hostage of Israel, a victim of Washington's open, unqualified support for the country over the years. From this lofty conviction comes the view that the U.S., if only for reasons of prestige, could not stand the trauma of seeing Israel defeated in another war with the Arabs. The U.S. indeed would not allow such a defeat under foreseeable circumstances. But that is a fall-back for Israel, not a launch pad for resisting hard decisions necessary for peace...
Last September, Boston School Superintendant William Leary called a meeting of college and university presidents in the metropolitan area, "to help Boston schools cope with the trauma associated with desegregation...
...waiting for a disaster becomes greater than the actual fear of facing it. In that case, a person may actually wish for the trouble to arrive and thus put an end to anxiety. Another concept is "repetition compulsion." "This applies to people who have a need to master the trauma of the past," explains Dr. Robert Reich, director of psychiatry for New York City's department of social services, who works with the thousands of homeless men who crowd the Bowery year after year. "These people constantly rework their past life; many of them lived through the Depression...