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This vacillation between assertion and denial in discussions about organised abuse can be understood as functional, in that it serves to contain the traumatic kernel at the heart of allegations of organised abuse. In his influential ‘just world’ theory, Lerner (1980) argued that emotional wellbeing is predicated on the assumption that the world is an orderly, predictable and just place in which people get what they deserve. Whilst such assumptions are objectively false, Lerner argued that indivi
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― Organised Sexual Abuse
― Organised Sexual Abuse
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Another plane had to be rounded up and chartered to the fundraiser... a big Trump-Vance decal quickly plastered onto it... [and then] the worst plane ride in the collective experience of everybody on board, many who had spent much of their professional lives in the air. White-knuckle, head-banging lurches. Stomach-dropping turbulence. Sudden stone-falling drops in altitude and air pressure. People actually praying. Then, in the middle of it all, a report tracking the Trump team's peregrinations
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― All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America
― All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America
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