Observation and Trauma: How Professionals Handle Observing Trauma
“To beat that madman [Hitler], it’s not enough to survive World War II, you need to survive the war and still have your sense of humor.” –Stan Kelly-Bootle, author, Liverpool resident during the war A reader of this blog wrote eloquently to me about how we process observations. Said he: At some point, the observations we make, even the most carefully taken, the ones we have scrubbed free of bias, fit into narratives. That’s how we think. It’s how we build memories. It’s how we experience the w