Adding citation Re: PTSD Sirius (Was Sociopathic Sirius? (and Paranoid Snape?))
marinafrants
rusalka at ix.netcom.com
Wed Nov 27 22:57:59 UTC 2002
No: HPFGUIDX 47332
Whoops! Just realized that I quoted from a book in my PTSD post
below and then, like an idiot, forgot to cite it. Mea culpa.
--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "marinafrants" <rusalka at i...> wrote:
> "Long after the danger is past, traumatized people relive the
event
> as if it were continually recurring in the present... The
traumatic
> moment becomes encoded in an abnormal form of memory, which breaks
> spontaneously into consciousness, both as flashbacks during waking
> states and as traumatic nightmares during sleep."*
>
"Trauma and Recovery" by Judith Herman, M.D., p. 33. Copyright
1992, 1997 by Basic Books.
Marina
rusalka at ix.netcom.com
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