Viktor

“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

“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

“The world of everyday life is not only taken for granted as reality by the ordinary members of society in the subjectively meaningful conduct of their lives. It is a world that originates in their thoughts and actions, and is maintained as real by these.”
― Peter L. Berger, The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge

“The social reality of everyday life is thus apprehended in a continuum of typifications, which are progressively anonymous as they are removed from the “here and now” of the face-to-face situation.”
― Peter L. Berger, The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge