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Jan 30, 2009, 09:05 PM
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jess,
Have you ever heard of trauma reenactment? Would you consider the possibility that this is what susan was doing?
Many traumatized people expose themselves, seemingly compulsively, to situations reminiscent of the original trauma. These behavioral reenactments are rarely consciously understood to be related to earlier life experiences.
In behavioral re-enactment of the trauma, the self may play the role of either victim or victimizer.
http://www.cirp.org/library/psych/vanderkolk/
You all deserve to be here. 
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