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using Template:VanderKolkBA 1989
Famed trauma expert [[Bessel van der Kolk]], {{MD}} (1989) reported that traumatized persons tend to repeat the trauma on themselves or others, resulting in self-harm, 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 |last=van der Kolk |first=Bessel |init=BA |author-link=Bessel van der Kolk |etal=no |title=The compulsion to repeat the trauma: re-enactment, revictimization, and masochism |journal=Psychiatr Clin North Am |location= |date=VanderKolkBA 1989-06 |volume=12 |issue=2 |pages=389-411 |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/psych/vanderkolk/ |quote= |pubmedID=2664732 |pubmedCID= |DOI= |accessdate=2019-12-08}}</ref>
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