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Authors
Candib, Lucy M.UMass Chan Affiliations
Department of Family Medicine and Community HealthDocument Type
Journal ArticlePublication Date
2002-09-01Keywords
*HomicideHumans
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
*Work
Community Health
Other Medical Specialties
Preventive Medicine
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The past century has shown that human beings are capable of genocidal destruction of millions of other humans based on ethnicity or race. Clinicians today are likely to encounter patients who are survivors of inflicted atrocities and abuse. People fleeing horrendous circumstances bring persisting memories that produce symptoms even for the next generation. Families carry the knowledge-personal, cultural, familial, and sometimes individual-of the depths of destruction that human beings can do to one another. Suffering derives from the memory, both physical and mental, of what other persons inflicted; it has multiple dimensions that patients may not express explicitly; instead they may frame their experience of suffering in terms of pain. Diagnostic labels such as post-traumatic stress disorder or somatization are inadequate to convey human comprehension of suffering. Clinicians around the world need to be willing and able to acknowledge and witness the profound sources of experiential pain in the lives of their patients.Source
Patient Educ Couns. 2002 Sep;48(1):43-50. Link to article on publisher's websiteDOI
10.1016/S0738-3991(02)00098-8Permanent Link to this Item
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/31006PubMed ID
12220749Related Resources
Link to Article in PubMedae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1016/S0738-3991(02)00098-8