{"id":224,"date":"2011-07-22T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T06:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artherapievirtus.org\/VPI\/2-a-true-child-of-trauma-sarah-haley-1939-1989-by-chaim-f-shatan\/"},"modified":"2011-07-22T08:05:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T06:05:00","slug":"2-a-true-child-of-trauma-sarah-haley-1939-1989-by-chaim-f-shatan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artherapievirtus.org\/VPI\/2-a-true-child-of-trauma-sarah-haley-1939-1989-by-chaim-f-shatan\/","title":{"rendered":"2\/ "A True Child of Trauma" – Sarah Haley: 1939-1989 by Chaim F. Shatan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Journal of Traumatic Stress<\/span>, Vol. 3, No. 3, 1990 <\/span>
\u00ab\u00a0A True Child of Trauma\u00a0\u00bb – Sarah Haley: 1939-1989 <\/span><\/p>\n

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Chaim F. Shatan <\/span><\/p>\n

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At the Tufts University memorial for Sarah Haley (October 7, 1989), \u2028ail types of people whose lives she had touched were present: her brothers, \u2028sisters-in-Iaw, niece, and nephew; friends; V.A. clinicians; her psychiatrist; \u2028comrades from the Vietnam veterans movement; colleagues from the Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. Most poignant was the presence of veterans \u2028from three wars which spanned her lifetime. <\/span><\/div>\n
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A black Vietnam veteran spoke about the difference she had made in \u2028his life by never giving up on him – even though, for her, there was no financial gain. A veteran of the Korean and Vietnam wars told us how she had \u2028saved his life when the memory of his atrocities made him suicidal. He said \u2028that she gave up on no one, and that her dedication was much deeper than \u2028just doing a job. He added that he would go anywhere and promote any \u2028cause that furthered the work set in motion by Sarah Haley. A veteran, badly scarred by burns suffered in World War II, moved us by his quiet yet in- \u2028tense account of her profound grasp of his suffering. \u00ab\u00a0We are her living \u2028memorial,\u00a0\u00bb he concluded. Her brother Tom spoke about those aspects of \u2028her life that were most personal, rendering meaningful her passage from the \u2028beginning of her life to the Sarah Haley we knew, respected, and loved. After hearing Tom talk, Erwin Parson said: \u00ab\u00a0Sarah was a true child of trauma.\u00a0\u00bb <\/span><\/div>\n
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Fifteen years earlier, Nick Egleson reporter for the Village Voice of \u2028New York) called me and asked if l’d ever heard of Sarah Haley’. 1 said that \u20281 hadn’t. He said: \u00ab\u00a0You ought to read her paper ‘When the Patient Reports \u2028Atrocities.’ She’s been working with Vietnam veterans since 1969 and 1 just \u2028spent an hour and a half on the phone with her.\u00a0\u00bb <\/span><\/div>\n
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\nI got her paper from the New York Academy of Medicine. It let loose \u2028in me an instinctive flood of startled recognition. 1 contacted her at once \u2028because 1 felt grateful and nourished by its rich draught of life. Her work \u2028seemed absolutely natural and inevitable. Here was someone else, sort of \u2028like you, saying things about pain and sorrow; about death, fear, and darkness; about helpfulness and hope, that meant something. I invited her to take part in a round table on \u00ab\u00a0War Babies\u00a0\u00bb at the 1975 meeting of the American \u2028’Orthopsychiatric Association in Washington. She had already noticed the \u2028impact of homecoming Vietnam veterans on their wives and children. At the \u2028round table, she presented a paper entitled \u00ab\u00a0Guerrilla Warfare and the Magic Years.\u00a0\u00bb Little did I know, then, from what deep wellsprings of personal \u2028experience as a war baby she spoke. It was no wonder that her projected \u2028book of Vietnam veteran cases was dedicated to her father, Joseph Dennis Haley. As a World War II veteran, he had not only caused her pain, but \u2028taught her a great deal about the relationship between the Veterans Administration and war veterans.<\/span>
Pour lire la suite de l’article, consulter le<\/span><\/span> <\/span>Journal of Traumatic Stress, <\/span>Vol. 3, No. 3, 1990 <\/span>\n<\/div>\n

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Autres billets d\u00e9di\u00e9s \u00e0 Sarah Haley<\/span>
<\/span>1\/ Hommage \u00e0 Sarah Haley an incest victim involved in the acceptance of PTSD<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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