This book appears at a time when public discussion of the common atrocities of sexual and domestic life has been made possible by the womens movement, and when public discussion of the common atrocities of political life has been made possible by the movement for human rights. I expect the book to be controversialfirst, because it is written from a feminist perspective; second, because it challenges established diagnostic concepts; but third and perhaps most importantly, because it speaks about horrible things, things that no one really wants to hear about.
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“The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.”
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