Currently reading The Body Keeps the Score about the neurophysiology of trauma. While I haven’t experienced any trauma of the severity the book talks about, it’s a pretty powerful model. A lot of all memory, especially somatic memory, is traumatic memory.

Currently reading The Body Keeps the Score about the neurophysiology of trauma. While I haven’t experienced any trauma of the severity the book talks about, it’s a pretty powerful model. A lot of all memory, especially somatic memory, is traumatic memory. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Body_Keeps_the_Score

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In the context of the Israel-Palestine conflict, it made me think of a collective version of a popular line: hurt peoples hurt peoples. Both Jews and Arabs have a deeply traumatic recent historical memory and they’re just reproducing it on each other.

“Trauma invariably involves not bringing seen, not being mirrored, and not being taken into account”