The Compulsion to Repeat the Trauma: Re-enactment, revictimization, and masochism.
David Baldwin's Trauma Information, Articles:
Van der Kolk (1989)
The Compulsion to Repeat the Trauma: Re-enactment, revictimization, and masochism.
This article first appeared in Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 12, (2), 389-411.
Repetition of traumatic experiences can occur on behavioral, emotional, physiologic, and neuroendocriniologic levels, but invariably causes suffering. In this 1989 article, Bessel van der Kolk describes the diversity of traumatic re-enactments, and addresses relationships to social attachment and separation, traumatic bonding, state-dependent learning, addiction to trauma, sex differences, and biological responses to trauma. Treatment implications are also discussed. 147 references. "
Van der Kolk (1989)
The Compulsion to Repeat the Trauma: Re-enactment, revictimization, and masochism.
This article first appeared in Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 12, (2), 389-411.
Repetition of traumatic experiences can occur on behavioral, emotional, physiologic, and neuroendocriniologic levels, but invariably causes suffering. In this 1989 article, Bessel van der Kolk describes the diversity of traumatic re-enactments, and addresses relationships to social attachment and separation, traumatic bonding, state-dependent learning, addiction to trauma, sex differences, and biological responses to trauma. Treatment implications are also discussed. 147 references. "
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