Trauma Reenactment Syndrome

As described in Women Who Hurt Themselves, TRS sufferers have four common characteristics:

  1. a sense of being at war with their bodies ("my body, my enemy")
  2. excessive secrecy as a guiding principle of life
  3. inability to self-protect (often seen in a specific kind of fragmentation of self, and
  4. relationships dominated by a struggle for control.
(criteria taken from Women Who Hurt Themselves: A Book of Hope and Understanding, c1994 by Dusty Miller, published by Basic Books.)

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