Quotes by Aphrodite Matsakis, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

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“Some of the experiences endured by human beings on this earth are virtually unbelievable.”

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“Some of the experiences endured by human beings on this earth are virtually unbelievable.”
— Aphrodite Matsakis, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
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“However, if you do not believe your clients, they may sense your doubt and never fully trust you. As Bruce Goderez (1986), director of a PTSD inpatient unit says, "It is important for the clinician...”
— Aphrodite Matsakis, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
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“As you may already know, post-traumatic stress disorder is extremely complex. Each client has a unique, perhaps virtually unbelievable, set of experiences, and an almost equally set of reactions to...”
— Aphrodite Matsakis, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
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“In order to believe clients' accounts of trauma, you need to suspend any pre-conceived notions that you have about what is possible and impossible in human experience. As simple as they may sound, ...”
— Aphrodite Matsakis, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
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