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==Circumcision trauma in adults==
Famed trauma expert [https://besselvanderkolk.net/index.html Bessell van der Kolk, M. D.] (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>{{REFjournal
|last=van der Kolk
|first=Bessell
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|etal=no
|title=The compulsion to repeat the trauma: re-enactment, revictimization, and masochism
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|journal=Psychiatr Clin North Am
|location=
|date=1989-06
|volume=12
|issue=2
|pages=389-411
|url=
|quote=
|pubmedID=2664732
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|DOI=
|accessdate=2019-12-08
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