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As a witness the survivor is both sought and shunned; the desire to hear his truth is countered by the need to ignore him. ... Too close a knowledge of vulnerability, of evil, of human insufficiency, is felt to be ruinous. ... The ostracism of outsiders, or bearers of bad news, as we feel compelled to defend a comforting view of life, we tend to deny the survivor’s voice. We join in a “conspiracy of silence.” (DesPres, 1976, pp. 41–42)
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Danieli, Y. (1988). Confronting the Unimaginable. In: Wilson, J.P., Harel, Z., Kahana, B. (eds) Human Adaptation to Extreme Stress. The Springer Series on Stress and Coping. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0786-8_10
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