Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis, and History by Dori Laub

The main character or narrator in the Cathedral was not only jealous of the relationship between his wife and her friend (the blind man); moreover, he had not seen him in person and did not appreciate the idea that he was actually spending the night at their house. However, after the narrator’s encounter with Robert, he perceives that he was not what he expected him to be; instead, he was gentle and friendly. On the other hand, the main character or narrator in everyday use was outspoken and straightforward, explaining about her surroundings and what had transpired in her life. From harsh labor to the different circumstances, she had faced in her lifetime; she also talks about her daughters who had different personalities.

Mary Rowlandson was a devoted, Puritan woman of the 1600’s who would eventually go on to pave the way for an entire genre—the captivity genre/narrative. She had several family members murdered and was held captive by Native Americans, but was eventually reunited with her fellow Puritans. She details her experiences in A Narrative of Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson. Rowlandson showcases her biblical typology many times and her story and a prime example shown is when she writes, “… my heart began to fail: and I fell aweeping… Although I had met with so much affliction… yet I could not shed one tear…” (Rowlandson 279). She uses typology to understand what is going on in her life and around her and this is displayed when she adds, “But now I may say as Psalm 137.1, ‘By the Rivers of Babylon, there we sate down: yea, we wept when we remembered Zion,” (Rowlandson 279). She used the bible to understand her experiences rather than to see what it is like. She wrote during a very devout, religious era and

According to Corrie & Betsie Ten Boom, life was a faith-building experience. Those two women were faced with one of the toughest experiences of their lives. Each day, Corrie and Betsie had to persuade each other that everything was going to be okay, once they were free from the “hell”, or the concentration camp they were placed in. And, yet, Corrie and Betsie somehow managed to keep in mind that God was with them.

Although Mary Rowlandson undergoes trials that many cannot even begin to fathom, she is let free and lives to tell her experiences. Her miraculous survival can

Mary Ann is a 19-year-old college student, who has sought counseling for her depression. She has been extremely exhausted and feels she is doing poorly in her academics. Marcus, her counselor tries to guide her in a counseling session. Mary Ann explains her depression and where she believes it stems from. When Mary Ann was a teenager she was raped, which led her to have an abortion. Mary Ann feels ashamed and believes she will go to Hell. Mary Ann holds religion highly and is in conflict because she believes she’s a murderer. Marcus tells Mary Ann to explore her spirituality by looking into other religions that will accept her for her mistakes. Marcus believes her religion is the root of her problems, in return he tries to persuade

Mary Rowlandson’s feelings toward food, even in times of starvation, are shaped by her belief that God provides (or does not provide) everything. Three weeks go by, and Mary Rowlandson finds herself

Evidence Not Seen by Darlene Deibler Rose is a book about a woman's faith in the jungles during WW2. The second third of the book is mostly about Darlene Roses’ time in the jungle camp/prison. Its provides you with all of the different occasions in which she was pressured to deny God as her true savior. One that really stuck out to me was when they threatened to kill her if she did not conform to their religion. It made me think about what I would do in the situation. I think that I would not conform because to live is christ and to die is gain because you would be going to heaven. Another thing that I thought about as I read it is how she is sort of like the apostle Paul in when she went to jail she did not stop sharing Jesus’ love

Essay: What does the narrator seem to want from the reader? How does she go about getting what she wants?

Seven billion people, seven billion different faces, seven billion unique characters, and most importantly, seven billion significant identities. Trauma, is a deeply distressing or disturbing experience, everyone experience trauma in their life, from breaking their bones to surviving a Nazi concentration camp. Identities are changed during these experiences, negative or positive, one’s identity can be described as your personality and who you are. Everyone’s identity changed during their life from different events that occur in their life. Elie Wiesel’s memoir ‘Night’ and his famous Nobel Prize acceptance speech are two of the most moving and touching examples of how horrible traumatic experiences can be. Traumatic experience is far worse than you think it is, and the changes of one’s identity is bigger than anyone could imagine. Traumatic experiences affect one’s

People’s experience shapes their identity and their outlook on life. Traumatic events can cause mental illnesses such as PTSD or depression, and negatively affects people’s view of the world; however, survivors felt that it’s their moral obligation to educate people so their experiences will become meaningful. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel and other survivor stories, traumatic events dehumanized people and made them question their faith.

The repetition of these traumatic events and the stress caused by these events can manifest itself in physiological and psychological disorders which, over the course of the 20th century have changed names and

In Susan Farrell, the author of “Just Listen”: Witnessing Trauma in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, mentioned “...all theorists agree that the process of recovery from trauma must involve a narrativization of traumatic event--putting a sensory images into words in order to integrate trauma into a person 's life story” (186). However, without reading Cathy Caruth’s Trauma, readers will not understand that not only integrating trauma into a narrative will help them recover but it also allows the witness apprehend their flashbacks into meaning. Flashbacks, although are taunting, has the most vivid images compared to narrated memories. For one to remember a highlight or a significant moment, one must preserve it as a flashback. In The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien convert his flashbacks into narrative memories allowing himself and readers to comprehend his experiences, but O’Brien also added flashbacks into his memories create the most graphic images for the readers.

In this Fascinating book Love’s Executioner and other Tales of Psychotherapy by Irvin D. Yalom, we can appreciated different techniques used in a session of Psychotherapy, this book was easy to read and understand and especially it was very addictive, making it the perfect tool and inspiration for psychology students who are starting to appreciate this career more deeply. There are ten different cases offered in this book, some patients share similar symptoms but still have different mental dysfunctions. Out of the ten cases I picked three:

In Martha Stout’s essay “When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning, It Was Friday”, she discusses how a person who has suffered a traumatic experience is most likely to dissociate their individual self from that situation and block it from their mind completely. This form of a solution allows the person to forget the experience and not feel the pain. In “Immune to Reality” Daniel Gilbert describes how every human being contains a psychological immune system, which works to shield us from horrible experiences that threaten our happiness. When experiencing a traumatic event, the psychological immune system responds by “cooking up the facts”, meaning taking the facts of the situation and turning the negative aspects of it into positive views. At first

Others, though, may not be able to cope; their experience may be more haunting or terrifying than others. Each individual expresses situations in different forms; some of us are weaker and unable to control the vivid intrusive memories of the incident. The impression appears at any time, apparently unprovoked, and they interfere with their daily