Periodically we run across a quote that seems worth sharing, to create a larger understanding of what those who experience trauma have gone through. Here is such a quote, directed in this case to practitioners.
"The examination of PTSD patients can be very stressful to clinicians. As Blank (1985) notes:
PTSD is caused by contact between the individual and the darkest and most violent forces of human nature. War, murder, rape, floods, etc. take the victim over the edge of life into serious confrontations with death or uncontrolled violence. Some individuals are therefore transformed and become, at some level, bearers of the traumatic experience. The (examiner) with whom they come into contact is thus inevitably exposed to war, rape, flood, etc. (p. 88)."
Source: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, by Kirtland C. Peterson, Maurice F. Prout, Robert Alan Schwarz
