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“When a child is traumatized, something more discrete and more specific happens than a general loss of capacity for love and work. An ever-present, ever-draining abscess forms. The child goes on living an ordinary life. But if something touches the traumatic "abscess," the child hurts.”

Lenore Terr, Too Scared To Cry: Psychic Trauma in Childhood
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Too Scared To Cry: Psychic Trauma in Childhood Too Scared To Cry: Psychic Trauma in Childhood by Lenore Terr
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