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Núria Riera

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Stephan Vanfleteren

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Laura Davis, Frayed Edges, [a book of essays and a book of poetry], (announcement), Covers designed by infantilni, Femmesocial Press, 2026

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On the surface, avoidance, minimization, distancing, splitting, and attempting to place a positive value on painful experiences may look like dreadful self-deception. In reality, however, this self-regulation of negative affect performs a life-saving function. For precisely that reason, trauma patients find it dangerous, even impossible, to give up these survival strategies and self-healing measures, even though they block creativity and growth and lead eventually to stagnation and decay. [ . . . ] The sacrifice of one's self-protection strategies and the loosening of one's rigid defense mechanisms are dreadfully painful and threatening processes, for they uncover old wounds associated with safety, trust, power, esteem, and intimacy.

Ursula Wirtz, Trauma and Beyond: The Mystery of Transformation