Trauma Reenactment Syndrome
As described in Women Who Hurt Themselves, TRS sufferers have four
common characteristics:
- a sense of being at war with their bodies ("my body, my enemy")
- excessive secrecy as a guiding principle of life
- inability to self-protect (often seen in a specific kind of
fragmentation of self, and
- 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.)
