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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