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wikify Bessel van der Kolk
We now understand that the effects of the extreme [[pain]] of circumcision is [[Pain#Traumatic_effect_of_infant_circumcision| traumatic]], so infant Bill must have suffered significant trauma.
Famed trauma expert [https://besselvanderkolk.net/index.html Bessell [Bessel van der Kolk]], M. D.] {{MD}} (1989) reported that traumatized persons tend to repeat the trauma on themselves or others, resulting in harm to others, harm to self, or being re-victimized.<ref name="vanderkolk1989">{{REFjournal
|last=van der Kolk
|first=BessellBessel A. |init=BBA |author-link=Bessel van der Kolk
|etal=no
|title=The compulsion to repeat the trauma: re-enactment, revictimization, and masochism
* [[World Health Organization]]
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