Viktor

“Society teaches us that to be positive is to be naive and vulnerable, whereas to be critical is to be informed, buttressed and sophisticated. Organizations operate on this negative norm.”
― Nancy Kline, Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind

“sociology of knowledge is concerned with the relationship between human thought and the social context within which it arises.”
― Peter L. Berger, The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge

“Whatever patterns are introduced will be continuously modified through the exceedingly variegated and subtle interchange of subjective meanings that goes on.”
― Peter L. Berger, The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge

“There are fundamentally three avenues: 1) top down, by talking, (re-) connecting with others, and allowing ourselves to know and understand what is going on with us, while processing the memories of the trauma; 2) by taking medicines that shut down inappropriate alarm reactions, or by utilizing other technologies that change the way the brain organizes information, and 3) bottom up: by allowing the body to have experiences that deeply and viscerally contradict the helplessness, rage, or collapse that result from trauma.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma