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|pages=599-603
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/pain/taddio2/
|quote=It is, therefore, possible that the greater vaccination response in the infants [[circumcised ]] without anaesthesia may represent an infant analogue of a post-traumatic stress disorder triggered by a traumatic and painful event and re-experienced under similar circumstances of pain during vaccination.
|pubmedID=9057731
|DOI=10.1016/S0140-6736(96)10316-0
}}</ref> The extent of little Brian's trauma, if any, is not known, however his adult behaviour is suggestive of a deeply traumatised person with a compulsion to repeat the trauma of infant circumcision on 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=2022-10-27}}</ref>
Brian Morris may be considered to be a victim of [[circumcision]]. It is likely that Morris's adult [[bias]] for circumcision, as reflected in his writings, derived from his infant experience and his lack of personal experience of a [[foreskin]].<ref name="boyle2012>{{REFjournal