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The process of arrest, torture, release, flight, and exile involves trauma at many levels. Insofar as humans are social beings, this trauma can be understood, not only as an assault on the individual person, but also an assault on the links and connections between people and the patterns of relationships through which people define themselves and give meaning to their lives.1
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Blackwell, R.D. (1993). Disruption and Reconstitution of Family, Network, and Community Systems Following Torture, Organized Violence, and Exile. In: Wilson, J.P., Raphael, B. (eds) International Handbook of Traumatic Stress Syndromes. The Plenum Series on Stress and Coping. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2820-3_61
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