Bessel Van Der Kolk - The Compulsion to Repeat the Trauma

http://www.cirp.org/library/psych/vanderkolk/ Psychiatric Clinics of North America, Volume 12, Number 2, Pages 389-411, June 1989. The Compulsion to Repeat the Trauma Re-enactment, Revictimization, and Masochism Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD Director, Trauma Center, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts During the formative years of contemporary psychiatry much attention was paid to the continuing role of past traumatic experiences on the current lives of people. Charcot, Janet, and Freud all noted that fragmented memories of traumatic events dominate