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==Circumcision trauma in adults==
Famed trauma expert [https://besselvanderkolk.net/index.html Bessell [Bessel van der Kolk]], M. D.] {{MD}} (1989) reports that traumatized persons tend to repeat the trauma on themselves or others, resulting in harm to others, harm to self, or being re-victimized. He writes:
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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
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|title=The compulsion to repeat the trauma: re-enactment, revictimization, and masochism
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