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Other closely connected circumcised males who are not the father may exhibit similar behavior.
Other closely connected circumcised males who are not the father may exhibit similar behavior.


==The compulsion to repeat the traumɑ==
==The compulsion to repeat the trauma==


The leading reason for adamant father syndrome is the compulsion to repeat the trauma.
The leading reason for adamant father syndrome is the compulsion to repeat the trauma.<blockquote>
Some traumatized people remain preoccupied with the trauma at the expense of other life experiences and continue to re-create it in some form for themselves or for others.<ref name="vanderkolk1989">{{REFjournal
|last=van der Kolk
|first=Bessell
|init=B
|author-link=
|etal=no
|title=The compulsion to repeat the trauma: re-enactment, revictimization, and masochism
|journal=Psychiatr Clin North Am
|location=
|date=1989-06
|volume=12
|issue=2
|pages=389-411
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/psych/vanderkolk/
|quote=
|pubmedID=2664732
|pubmedCID=
|DOI=
|accessdate=2021-07-24
}}</ref>


[[Ronald Goldman|Goldman]] (1999) reports that [[circumcision]] is trauma and that trauma tends to repeat itself:
[[Ronald Goldman|Goldman]] (1999) reports that [[circumcision]] is trauma and that trauma tends to repeat itself: