Dissociation still overwhelms this expert with intolerable sleepiness or sudden hypervigilance. Her research assistant gently points out similarities between her and his father, who brought his PTSD symptoms home from Vietnam.
Stern describes the way Pakistani clergy and terrorists rape schoolboys on Thursday nights (then seek religious absolution on Fridays) to humiliate them into becoming fearless jihadists. Local Pakistanis and U.S. intelligence know about this systemic rape in the madrasahs, she says, but they remain silent about it. Stern's website includes her interview on this subject.
In her own family, both Stern and her aging father find redemption through sharing their most unspeakable memories. She dedicates the book to him.
Anne Grant writes online and elsewhere about children traumatized by domestic violence, sexual assault and legal abuse in family courts.
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